what are the prices like in the vending machines you frequent?

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sometimes i feel angry about the price in the my building, but on reflection they're really not that bad. $0.75 for candy bars, chips, etc. $0.85 for a few things.. pretzels, I think, and twinkies and muffins. $1.25 for a 1 oz. bag of beef jerky, and $2.00 for a big bag of star bursts. I think you can gets certs for $0.65, but that might just bee a memory of the $0.65 mints in this snack machine i loved dearly when i was a child.

i should have eaten the $0.75 granola bar instead of the jerky/muffin combo. and perhaps pretzels would have been better than the milky way i got earlier.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)

33p for quarter a pint of milk. 35p for crisps and chocolate. 50p for a plastic bowl and mini-cereal. It's a total rip.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

ours at work has been broken for a couple of weeks now. what's with these people? have they even called someone about getting it fixed? i don't know. 50p for cans o' pop, 35 for crisps and chocolate.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's 60p a can in ours! So much for London prices.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The extra ten pee is a "machine actually working" premium.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Where I work...

Tea/Coffee - 25 to 30p depending on size/brand/caffeine content
Cans of pop - 53p
Cans of still orange juice or Perrier water - 60p
Cold water - Free
Hot water - 7p!!
Bog-standard crisps - around 30p
Quality crisps (McCoys etc) - around 40p
Choccie bars - 30 to 40p

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

We don't have food vending machines, we have cash & carry food that we can help ourselves to & we put money in a tin. Needless to say the two never tally! Our drinks vending machine is free.
Crisps: 25p
Coke: 25p
Choc: 25-35p

A bargain!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ours is free but everything that it produces is undrinkable so we go to the cafe over the road

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

we got new vending machines a while back and the prices went down 10c or so on everything! Now it is:

candy bars - 50c
twinkies/sticky buns/six mini donuts - 65c
chips/crackers/pork rinds/pretzels - 50c
packet of microwave popcorn - 75c...the best deal by far because there's like 3.5 ounces of popcorn as opposed to like 1.25 ounces of prezels for 50c. I always evaluate net weight and calorie content so I am assured of getting the most for my change.

the coffee is free but undrinkable. Tea should be free, I think. At least the hot water is free.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

60 or 65 cents for cans of soda (I forget which), 50 cents for gum or Beech mints, 50 cents for pretzels but 60 cents for chips, 75 cents for pastry type things.

There's coffee, ice cream, and sandwiches in the building next door, but I don't know how much they are.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

50p for fruit and nut

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

sub-thread: I eat crap out of the vending machine I would never ever eat outside of a don't-have-time-for-a-lunch-break work hunger situation. It's just utter garbage. I've started taking anything that isn't getting eaten around the house to work because I will eventually eat it there.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I wd do this but at la escuela I have neither desk nor locker so whatever I bring ends up getting squooshed in my bag and inevitably deposits itself throughout

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

prices?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I do that sometimes. I have a just-less-than-an-hour break on Tuesdays in the midst of a six and a half hour block of classes, and am on the opposite end of a large campus from anywhere that serves food. The other guy in both the classes bikes to Subway and back, but places on the campus periphery are so busy at noon that he barely makes it back in time.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

For the longest time, we had a Coke machine that was barely any larger than a dorm refridgerator. Cokes cost 55¢, but you could only use two quarters and a nickel. You put the coins in a little coin-sized slot and turned the knob around. And you had to make sure to look through the glass to see if your Coke was still in stock.

Now we've got a "real" Coke machine, and prices remain steady at 55¢.

In the kitchen, we've got this cardboard snack box that supposedly works on the honor system. I say "supposedly" because on Monday, there was a yellow tag attached to the box saying that we had shorted them something incredible like $21. Ha, they shoulda known what they were getting into with a bunch of radio fux.

The box is strange because it contains everything from Doritos chips (the smallest size, usually 35¢ at the gas station), microwave popcorn, Hershey bars, beef jerky, and Andy Capp Hot Fries all for the low price of 75¢. 75¢ is a rip-off for those Doritos, but not so bad for the beef jerky.

Coffee is free and comes in eight different flavors including the awful "Jazzy Java" which always makes me think of the DJ, not the rapper. Hot water is free as are little bags of Lipton tea. I bring my own tea to work. Gotta have my standards.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

$1 for a 1.5 oz. bag of bugles and 0.85 for a 12 oz can of coke.

I feel like I should get 'SUCKER' tattooed on my forehead.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

At the new office, we have this huge Coke machine offering 20 oz bottles for a dollar. You stick your dollar in, make your selection, and then the fun begins: this conveyor belt moves up to the shelf your soda is on, the soda gets pushed out onto the belt, the belt moves back down (or up) to the level where the receptacle is, the conveyor sends your bottle down from the left to the right, and *plop* there's your Coke.

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:43 (seventeen years ago)

Ours does that too (for 40 cents more per 20 oz coke)

I think it's meant to stop people from rocking the machines/reaching up inside 'em, etc. It always makes me think it'd be great fun to put a rubber snake or something like that in the dispensation chamber.

― Oilyrags, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

cans of pop - 60 cents
small bags of doritos, chips, pretzels, etc - 50 cents
candy bars - 65 cents
ramen noodles - 50 cents
cookies/"baked goods" - 65 cents

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 25 July 2008 21:52 (seventeen years ago)

At the last place I worked, they had 2-packs of Pop-Tarts (frosted brown sugar cinn or strawberry) for 0.25 and I had a lot of them.

― Jaq, Friday, 25 July 2008 22:02 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

prices are meh, but ours flashes "win shit" games of course, and AP news headlines which today include

"Paterno out of hospital, improving"

"Rangers win negotiating rights to Yu"

I hope the food is fresher.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:14 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:15 (fourteen years ago)

hahah

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

"BRITAIN AND FRANCE AT WAR WITH GERMANY"

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:47 (fourteen years ago)

Something about a screw-up at the Battle of Balaclava.

― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 2 March 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

no baklava in the vending machine

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

No balalaikas either.

― the feeling is surreal (snoball), Friday, 2 March 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

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