Cereal Dispenser

This not an entirely original idea, but rather a combination of two common ones. One is found at grocery stores, the other at restaurants.

Most supermarkets feature a bulk foods section, where shoppers can purchase as much or as little product as they desire, without paying expensive mark-up for brand names and packaging.

Some fast-food joints feature self-serve fountain drinks, where customers can buy the cup, and fill up as many times as they like.

I propose a combination of the two, whereby a bulk product, namely cereal, is poured into giant bins in the store. Accessible to customers is a faucet, that when activated will be dispensed into a clear bucket, purchased from the store. Because there is no appreciable difference between house-brand cereal and name brand cereal, the savings will be ginormous.

Prices are calculated to the nearest decilitre at the checkout stand. The air in the massive container is filtered, disinfected, and all safety precautions are taken.

<rant>I placed this under the cereal category and not the general category because I would like this invention to be used to drive down the outrageous cost of cereal. At present, 100g of fruit loops costs more than 100g of black forest ham, and some cereals rival the cost of T-Bone steak. This is sheer ludicrousness.</rant>