{"id":12136,"date":"2015-02-19T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2015-02-19T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T13:07:34","slug":"why-there-are-so-many-vending-machines-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/why-there-are-so-many-vending-machines-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why There Are So Many Vending Machines In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021915_1305_WhyThereAre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japan has more vending machines per square kilometer than any other country. Brian Ashcraft looked at why the country has such an affinity for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The machines make business sense. They&#8217;re cheaper to operate than a shop and make a brand&#8217;s products widely available.<\/li>\n<li>They also serve as free advertizing since the sides of the machines act as billboards pushing the brand.<\/li>\n<li>Some use the machines as publicity stunts. One company announced that it would sell lingerie through a vending machine, just for the media coverage it garnered.<\/li>\n<li>The country has a long relationship with &#8220;unmanned sellers&#8221; which were just open stalls with fruits and vegetables. Buyers were meant to take what they wanted and leave the correct amount of money.<\/li>\n<li>These days the machines appeal in part due to their technical sophistication. They come with giant touch screens that do things like display the latest headlines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the machines, the kinds of things you can get from them, why low rates of crime have boosted their popularity, and much more over <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/why-vending-machines-are-so-popular-in-japan-1682336996\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/why-vending-machines-are-so-popular-in-japan-1682336996\">Kotaku<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan has more vending machines per square kilometer than any other country. Brian Ashcraft looked at why the country has such an affinity for them: The machines make business sense. They&#8217;re cheaper to operate than a shop and make a brand&#8217;s products widely available. They also serve as free advertizing since the sides of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/021915_1305_WhyThereAre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12139,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions\/12139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}