🚨 #PSA #NewYorkCity !

#Free #KN95 #masks have been added to #NYC's #PublicHealth #VendingMachines in #Brooklyn.

It is hosted & serviced by #SUS (#ServicesForTheUnderserved), & also has #naloxone (#Narcan), #hygiene kits, & #SaferSex kits.

This is tremendous news - #CovidIsNotOver, & the more people who have access to good masks to wear in public, esp indoor spaces, the safer we ALL are.

For more info, see https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2023/health-department-launches-first-public-health-vending-machine.page

#MaskUp Lovely Peeps - take care of yourselves & each other.

There are no vending machines in my neighborhood, but disaster-info broadcasting radios in random appliances is a project I'd approve of, LOL. #radios #disasters #VendingMachines #Japan Headline: The Japan News: "Vending Machine Radios Get Word Out In Disasters"" https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20230205-89041/

Cashless vending machines are great from a maintenance perspective - less servicing to retrieve cash, and from a #SurveillanceCapitalism viewpoint, they gather additional data via credit card transactions, or mobile devices if you use them to pay.

For people who rely on the cash economy, they are a barrier to the immediate consumption of food or beverages - they shape who is allowed to purchase them not by cost exclusion but by infrastructure exclusion.

#VendingMachines

Interesting way for people to make some money.

"As part of a programme called the People’s Income Initiative, lower-income households in Malaysia are able to sell food and drinks at vending machines in areas with high footfall. The government pays for the monthly rental of these machines."

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/malaysia-vending-machine-food-lower-income-group-b40-handout-3626366

#Malaysia #Society #Income #VendingMachines

@yakkoj yeah...

What I'd love to see are more #electronics #VendingMachines just selling basic essentials like a #Powerbank, #USB-C cables, Top-Up vouchers for #Prepaid cards and potentially #StupidPhones!

#Gold #vendingmachines have been a huge hit, especially among young adults in #SouthKorea #moneysupply

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-27-south-korea-convenience-store-vending-machines-gold.html

Japan Installs Disaster-Prepared Vending Machines - BNN Breaking
https://bnn.network/breaking-news/japan-installs-disaster-prepared-vending-machines/

>Japan's innovative approach to natural disasters by providing free food and drinks through vending machines has been implemented in the coastal city of Ako.

#Japan #JapaneseCulture #VendingMachines #DisasterPreparedness

Japan vending machines to automatically offer free food if earthquake hits https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/02/japan-vending-machines-to-automatically-offer-free-food-if-earthquake-hits?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #earthquakes #japan #vendingmachines

Japanese Vending Machines: Selling Tasty Noodles and Oodles More | Web Japan
https://web-japan.org/trends/11_tech-life/tec202303_vending-machine.html

>Japanese vending machines are a great way to buy drinks, food, daily necessities and more at the simple push of a button.These days, some vending machines are even equipped with AI technology or are helping to reduce food waste.

#Japan #JapaneseCulture #VendingMachines

In 2017, French oyster-sellers on the Ile-de-Ré set up an oyster vending machine. Unfortunately, most of the time it refused to open to dispense customers' chosen snacks.

#french #oyster #vendingmachines

Watching a show on NHK about a rest stop full of old vending machines. They have things like udon and tempura. I was like, how does that work? Seems a man comes everyday and *cooks* the shrimp tempura. Now that's old-fashioned. #Japan #VendingMachines #Food

"The police chief of the small Kentucky city of Vine Grove knew from heart-rending experience why he needed a vending machine outside his office.

Kenneth Mattingly’s daughter was twice brought to the brink of death by heroin and twice pulled back by paramedics carrying an antidote, naloxone."

Why #VendingMachines with a lifesaving drug are growing in the #US | #OpioidsCrisis #Naxalone | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/29/narcan-naloxone-us-vending-machines-opioid-crisis

Here's a vending machine in Tokyo that sells frozen xiao long bao soup dumplings.

#tokyo #vendingmachines #dumplings

Here’s a video of some of the toys I add to mystery bags and individually in the #vendingmachines 👾 Did you have any of these?

Ich präsentiere, der einsamste Getränkeautomat der Welt. #streetartphotography #osaka #vendingmachines #onsew

Frozen deep-sea fish #vendingmachines debut at #Japanese inn
#TheMainichi https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221103/p2a/00m/0na/013000c

There is a distinct lack of food & useful items vending machines in Western Europe in my opinion! We have a few ones like for bicycle inner tubes & low-budget snacks in Berlin, but not nearly enough! (Also, I really like vending machines, btw) #vendingmachines

RT @gabrielvetter@twitter.com

Cheese & Fondue Vending Machine at Zurich Mainstation. Peak Switzerland 🇨🇭

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gabrielvetter/status/1318449452756144128

Run out on #organic #food on a #sunday in #Munich / #Germany? Finally the concept of #farm2consumer #24x7 open #vendingmachines has come to town: https://www.organictraveller.de/organictraveller-munich-sunday-shopping#regiomat-johanneskirchen

#muenchen

It's #Sunday and you're running out of #organic food items? No big deal in #Bremen / #Germany with its #vendingmachines for organic food and even a #sundayopen #zerowaste #conveniencestore: https://www.organictraveller.de/organictraveller-bremen-sunday-shopping

#unverpackt