Is anyone else as appalled as I am about the prices of vending machine goodies recently? Because I am hot and steaming mad about this issue. At work there is only 1 place where you can get snacks from a vending machine. I work in a building with 18 floors and they only have one vending machine area. Horror!
What makes this situation even worse is that they have allowed a complete scheister to control the vending machines and he has jacked up the prices to such levels that I won't even consider buying a bag of Pretzel M&M's from him.
Here's the story. Back when I first started, bottles of soda were a very reasonable $1.00 and candy and chips were at .60 cents. Perfectly adequate. Then the vending machine troll upped the soda to $1.25 and the candy and chips to around .75 cents. Still, though, this was fine. He put up a sign that blamed it on the economy.
A few months went by and another sign went up...further blaming the economy. So, now soda is $1.50 and candy is .80 cents. I'm getting annoyed. His prices were pretty much in line with other vending machines, but it was like Dude, how has the economy gotten that much worse in the last 3 months that you have to raise the prices again. Also, he has no teeth, which makes me suspicious about all things with this vending machine guy.
I persisted in my bottled soda addiction, though. At $1.50 I wasn't going to stop drinking an at least daily soda. In addition, there was a period of time where the soda machine was broken causing it to drop two sodas with one purchase. So, I felt like his price increase was a wash for me since I was getting some free stuff.
After a few months of this new price increase, the toothless vending machine troll did the unthinkable and put up another sign. Yes...ANOTHER SIGN. Again blaming it on the economy. Soda was now $1.75 and candy and chips were $1.00. WTF?! I cannot believe that this vending machine guy is paying anywhere near $1.00 for a Snickers bar in bulk. I know for a fact that I can get them for about .30 cents a bar at Sam's Club.
This price increase, however, seems across the board in the vending machine world. But, honestly, $1.00 is really too much to pay for a candy bar. So, I've boycotted all things vending machine (except yesterday when I really needed a 3 Musketeer bar to help me write an order). No shady toothless troll is going to screw me that badly just so I can have a soda.
3 comments:
I too have noticed that the prices are out of control. Where I work the prices are a $1 for snacks and candy. I've also noticed that there are some really random-assed things in vending machines these days. Like off-brand corn chips that you would never see in the store with strange flavors like peanut jalapeno, etc.
Maybe you should quit your job and open up some vending machines in the courthouse to compete with the scheister! At 3M, the cans of pop in the vending machine are now $1. However, if I walk to the Cafeteria, the same pop is available for $.85. Weird, huh? Bottled pop in the vending machines is around $1.40 and slightly cheaper inthe Cafeteria. Candy/chips is usually around $1. I guess we need to make a Sam's Club run.
The moral of this story is that vending machine owners are essentially petty thieves and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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