Weird Vending Machine Products

It seems that sometimes it is the more unusual items being sold by vending machines that pique the interest of the consumer and so become unexpectedly successful.

Weird vending machine products often become wildly successful. Anyone can fill a vending machine with candy, drinks, DVDs, chips or sandwiches but to try something different requires a risk taker with faith in their ideas. There have been many of these entrepreneurs and they are trying new things all the time. 

In Iowa a new company wanted to offer better access to an unusual product. They believed that if their product was sold fresh and easily accessible they would prosper. So they look some pop vending machines and transformed them into dispensers of live bait. These are not as uncommon as some would think, there are at least three thousand of these vending machines scattered around the Untied States that sell similar products. They are sold by the cup with an average price of about two dollars. Depending on what area the seller is these machines will dispense live minnows, leeches, mealworms or nightcrawlers. They are popular because they are a time saver for the fisherman who has risen early to start his adventure.

In another city in America a man who was at one time an emergency room doctor was frustrated by his inability to get medication for a sick child in the middle of the night. So he decided to do something about it for the entire parent's who have found themselves in this untenable position or might some day.

This system works by allowing the doctor to give the patient a choice of methods of getting their prescriptions from a machine or from the pharmacy. If they choose to use a machine, many of which are now right in the health care provider's office, the doctor writes the prescription with an electronic device. After the physician has made sure the patient has no allergies they are handed a printout that they take to the medical vending machine. The system itself will calculate the right dosage based on the information the doctor feeds into it. Currently these machines can offer thirty five commonly used medications in varying doses. The machines accept credit cards for payments. When the medication appears it comes with complete instructions on its use. To encourage the health care providers to use them the doctor's get a commission on each sale through the vending machines. 

The inventor of this vending machine claims that it encourages patients to get the medication prescribed; normally twenty percent of prescriptions remain unfilled, because of the convenience of the vending machine being right there. As well, the prescriptions are all printed out and so the inventor says it is safer than the pharmacist having to try to decipher the doctor's scrawl. 

In England a new type of vending machines is appearing. It is a doggie wash and it is gaining popularity quickly. The pet owner can shampoo then blow dry their pet by using this coin operated system. Ingenuity continues to take vending machines and make life easier. And weird vending machine products often produce great results.