Chris Read wrote:


The problem with the present business model for vending machines, is that
the machines have become *too* reliable. Going back 20 years (remembering
childhood trips with grandparents who liked to spoil me), the machines were
programmed to 'eat the money but not dispense the product' for one in three
attempts. It was like a cruel lottery, but the profit margins must have been
good.

Chris



I dread the day that the ticket gates are installed at Exeter St Davids
because it means I won't be able to walk out and buy cheap chocolate in
the University shop next door (it undercuts the station by about 10p a bar