In these troubling times , have you plant yourself intermit into and soak vend machines with a greater frequency ? Join the club . unnumbered Americans are going to absurd duration to obtain a handful of change and some deliciously reprehensible Snickers bar .
The WSJ reportsthat the intact vending machine industriousness is taking it in every hole , so to talk : gross sales are down , more employees are skimming off the top , and poor vending machine owners are skin with net income margins of around 1 % . And now they ’re being forced to outfit their machines with costly veridical - prison term monition systems , thanks to unionized roving gang of snack thief :
[ Vending companionship proprietor Jodi Glimpse ] buy her first wireless warning gadget in 2005 but usually overleap alerts because thieves mostly struck her machines while she was slumber . Last fall , thieves began using welding torches and dash cutters on her vending machines on high-pitched schooling campus .
Just pay up for your Tasty Kakes , you cheap SOB .
[ WSJ . Photo : markhillary ]
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