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farmers load produce into various size compartments that the public pays to open via an automatic cash machine - skip the middle man, encourage farming
farmer's vending machine
http://www.zombiezo..._food_news_etc.html
Japanese farmer's vending machine [yikes!!!, Jan 05 2008]
Another veggie vending machine in Tokyo.
http://www.kilian-n...busy-city-slickers/
I think this is a different one - this one has larger shelves. [jutta, Jul 08 2008]
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Will these machines be self cleaning?
Will each compartment be refrigerated, and if so will each have different temp settings?
Will certain compartments be aerated to ensure crisp-ness?
Will your local co-op pay for the manufacture and maintenance of these machines and will they be cost effective?
Will the machine give me a free rutabaga if I tip it on its side?
Would a starving person get their arm stuck trying to get free veggies?
Does each farmer deliver their produce themselves? |
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I dunno, sounds like a few middle men in there somewhere to me. |
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Automated farmer's market. We can still buy milk at the going rate, only the profits will go to the farmer instead of the supermarket. |
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You know the way sometimes farmers sell their product by the roadside? They put up a sign like so: Avocado's 50 cents each, leave money on tray? All who take an avocado WILL leave their 50 cents, I am sure. |
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Once I stayed in a hotel that had a tray of goodies like chocolat and such with a sign saying: leave your money here when you take something, and a price list. There was a handfull of coins so I could get change. |
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These are the things that make me feel that somebody trusts me, somebody whom I have never met. I would never betray that kind of trust in me. It is a true niche of paradise in this world. |
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I wish I could bone this idea twice.-- |
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My parents bought a farm in "middle-of-nowhere" Pennsylvania and ran out of milk, so I volunteered. I drove for 20 minutes up the road to see a sign for "Farm Fresh Milk". I drove up the driveway to find a lit building with some glass door refridgerators with milk and a cash drawer laying on the counter. I assumed that we had come by right as they were closing, so went around to knock on the chicken coop to get the owners attention. He was busy and explained that it was self serve, leave the money and take the milk. The cash was for change. We agreed and went did as we were told and left the money. As we were leaving we saw the sign that stated that due to the fact that many people didn't pay for the items that they took, the store would be closing the following day. I am sad to this day for the loss of this piece of Americana. |
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That guy had $ix gla$$ front refridgerator$, so I bet he would get one of these if it would dispence gallons of milk. Bun(+) Oh and he sold pasteurized milk, skim, cream and butter. |
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@UB: Bah, cleanliness is for yellerbellies. + |
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OK [misterQED] I will take back one of my fishbones. |
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Use this to load migrant labour in the slots. Farmers, around harvesting time, can simply insert a wage and a labourer willing to work for that wage can then be released. Change name to Farmers' Vending Machine. Perhaps, in other seasons, it could be used to dispense farmers to the nouveau riche that decided to buy a *little* orchard, within a 40 min. chopper flight radius of their city home. |
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Nice free association, -4whom-, at least those should make it as cartoons on the Times Editorial page. |
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It's baked everywhere around here, it's called a cardboard box, usually located on a table under a crooked wooden roof.
Veggies in box, take some, put money in coffee can.
(we still have honesty in these here parts.) |
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Automatic video surveillance is de rigueur nowadays. Especially for the small guys that need them most, like farmers and low income city dwellers in low income neighborhoods. |
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I like this idea, and think it should be paid for by the government. The more producers are able to sell direct, the fewer cream-stealing middlemen there are. And about cleanliness - where the hell do you think your fancy supermarket gets the food? Same exact place. |
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great idea, for vending objects bag of potatoes/ bag of
apples/ melon/pumpkin size, all on a trailer (that can be
immobilised) so it can be packed elsewhere and taken to
the roadside. A simple vend mechanism to keep the cost
down. This must have already been done somewhere.
Urgently needed in Australia due to the supermarket food
monopoly. |
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OK, pair of artistes, as in ripoff artistes, = duopoly,
however, seeing as how the grammar squad have knocked
on the door, the current usage of the word monopoly is
also applicable as it refers to the exclusive possession of
the
trade in a small number of hands( informal cartel, thus
mono?) rather than that trade being in the possession of
one (mono) entity. Admittedly current usage can be
nothing short of the continuing bad grammar of media
reporters, and thus half bakey posters. On the other
hand all language evolves from usage. |
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I'm not a farmer, I'm a consumer. I regularly try to stop
travelling a considerable distance to buy food at a market,
but am regularly faced with prices 3-6 times what I pay at
the market, at the nearby supermarkets. It just doesn't
cost them that much to distribute the food to near
where I live. 2 purchases at the market and I have paid
for petrol. Middle men in the food distribution chain need
government price regulation. Farm gate to consumer
price hikes are often totally unjustified and
proportionally affect persons who can least afford it. That
is why this is such a great idea as it cuts them out
entirely for any consumer travelling in country areas. |
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no matter how you do it. it's a good idea, people would probably love to stop, and get fresh, cheap produce. |
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Baked. There's a sausage company in New Zealand that has a vending machine set up alongside the road near Nelson. You can buy sausages, deli cuts, and vaccum packed, refridgerated cuts of meat. Beef, and venison. |
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It's in a little shack, protected from the weather. In this case it wasn't 50 cent apples, but $10-$30 chunks of meat. |
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[edit] actually, it seemed pretty expensive, in retrospect. |
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Thanks -yikes!!!- , yikes!!! thanks. Just got around to seeing your link on Japanese machines. |
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