ZOOM SHOPS – HIGH TECH VENDING MACHINES
June 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
VENDING machines called Zoom Shops selling high-end electronics and expensive perfumes alongside the usual crisps and sweets are cropping up in malls, hotels, grocery stores and airports across the United States.
Consumers can select items such as iPods, digital cameras or indeed beef jerky using a touch screen. They swipe their credit or debit cards through a reader and wait for their item to be handled by a sophisticated robotic system to deliver their item to a basket and then through a door for retrieval.
Zoom Systems, an independent ...
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