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"Chris Read" <chris...@btinternet.com>typed Theye are also good about sending refunds if you report having lost Maybe the machines are being replaced, maybe... --
> Has anyone else noticed, *all* of the chocolate vending machines on Tube I think many are operated by Cadbury who I believe have not ceased trading.
> platforms, certainly in zone 1, have been taken out of use. Anyone know why?
> My best guess is that the company which services/restocks them has ceased
> trading.
> The problem with the present business model for vending machines, is that
> the machines have become *too* reliable. Going back 20 years (remembering
> childhood trips with grandparents who liked to spoil me), the machines were
> programmed to 'eat the money but not dispense the product' for one in three
> attempts. It was like a cruel lottery, but the profit margins must have been
> good.
> Chris
> (ps on a choccy theme, Whistlestop, at various London terminals, are now the
> only stockists I can find for the elusive plain chocolate Bounty bar.)
money. 0800 223879 is the number to ring.
Helen D. Vecht: helenve...@zetnet.co.uk
Edgware.