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Looks pretty good - would try. When I was in Japan I always looked for weird vending machines. I liked the corn pottage soup.

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Waaaaah?

This video gets so many things wrong it is truly cringe-worthy.

The country has been covered by vending machines since the 1960s--long before there were problems with an aging population and birthrates. The primary reason for vending machines being installed everywhere is, surprise, convenience! Who wants to go to the store and stand in line to buy a drink when you can just go downstairs from your apartment and grab one from outside your front door?

Another thing to consider is that Japan late at night basically completely shuts down--even in major cities like Tokyo the trains stop running around 1AM or so and won't start again until 5AM. Nowadays their are 24-hour convenient stores on practically every other urban street corner but back when vending machines first started getting installed nothing was open late besides bars. If you caught the last train home from work and wanted to buy a coke or something on your walk back from the station you were SOL. Vending machines helped solve that problem.

Which brings us to another point--VERY few Japanese people in urban areas commute by car. Mass transit is fast and efficient and a huge number of people just walk/bike everywhere. Since there is so much foot traffic vending machines make total sense, especially in the summer when temperatures are going to rise into the mid-90s (30+ degrees Celsius) with high humidity and people who are walking/biking are going to get thirsty pretty damn quick.

Another thing he gets wrong is that retailers are not the ones primarily profiting off of vending machines: land owners are. Either they purchase and stock the machines themselves (thereby keeping all the profits) or they make a contract with the retail company in which the company stocks and services the machine but compensates the landowner for use of the space.

Oh, almost forgot something not mentioned in the video--the low crime rates. Another reason for the proliferation of vending machines is that whoever puts them out can be reasonably sure they won't be damaged, defaced, or robbed.

Finally, while he is right that credit cards are not as big here as in, say, the U.S., e-money is huge. And all of the newer vending machines produced in the last few years will take either cash or e-money, such as Suica or Pasmo cards.

By the way, all of this information that I've posted here is available from a simple Google search and there have actually been several articles written on vending machines in Japan over the last couple of years. It's like this guy just came over here and tried to guess why there were so many vending machines around....

Apparently despite having built massive star ships that can travel the galaxies, we still put vending machines on board.

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Pretty sure the old ~'50s cigarette vending machines didn't have future lasers and space magnets.

Always keep a nickle with a string tied around it I say.

or how does the vending machine know that half way through a hospital night shift to reject every last coin in your pocket

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I love the video, but object mildly to some of the content.

"pin-point accuracy"? The vending machine isn't sniping someone from 800 yards out. And as for accuracy, why do most machines reject my coins a number of times, but if I slam the coin into the slot, it accepts it just fine?

I think i have this. It was a dupe of your own post. Sifty accidently (broken) double posted your video when you submitted it. This happens occasionally. You killed one and the other was still around and now is doing quite well It was never a dupe of someone's earlier video, but sometimes people will dupe in this situation to deal with the second video. I prefer just killing one of them. Hope that makes sense.

Your killed video is here and you can see its a slightly different url but posted at the same time. http://videosift.com/video/How-do-vending-machines-figure-out-if-coins-are-fake-or-not

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It's the 3 million yt views that may have an effect not some silly vending machines seen by so few. This was all about the video they made, as the expense of the production just to inform a few people 'live' is a poor investment on getting the word out. Me thinks.