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> particular cultural elements make vending machines seem so successful in Japan Not being vandalized is mentioned in the article. People in Italy were always
by davidw 9y ago
> particular cultural elements make vending machines seem so successful in Japan
Not being vandalized is mentioned in the article.
People in Italy were always kind of surprised to hear about US newspaper machines - the ones where you put in some coins - and you can take out as many newspapers as you want, essentially. They'd joke that people would regularly take them all in Italy, and in Naples they'd probably just haul off the whole machine, change, newspapers and all.
- krapp 9y ago>People in Italy were always kind of surprised to hear about US newspaper machines - the ones where you put in some coins - and you can take out as many newspapers as you want, essentially Honestly, I have no idea why those things even exist or how they make anyone money. It's baffling.
- davidw 9y agoI guess people are honest enough that they buy the newspapers. Compare and contrast: in Italy, until recently, you could only buy newspapers from newsstands, who had some kind of monopoly on their sales. You couldn't get them from a grocery store, and certainly not from a vending machine.