Newspaper Vending Machine @ Chennai Metro!
We traveled in Chennai Metro recently (Thirumangalam to Vadapalani) and were surprised to find that their railway stations are equipped with a few types of vending machines.
The vending machine that surprised us the most was the Newspaper Vending machine. You can see it in action in the above-embedded video.
We have never seen a newspaper vending machine before. So we were intrigued and dropped a five rupee coin inside. A Tamil newspaper edition of Thina Malar popped out of the machine almost instantly.
The regular cost of the paper is 6.00 rupees (according to the printed info on it) but at this vending machine, we got it for 5.00 rupees. Not that we read much inside, we just glanced through the headlines…
There were other vending machines like the tickets, Pepsi/Red Bull/soft drinks ones, etc. But another very interesting vending machine was the one that dispensed orange juice.
We actually saw a worker putting in oranges on the top, so I guess they are juiced once we put in the cash. We didn’t try it as one juice was priced at 100 rupees, and outside we can get it for less than half that amount. Maybe next time we might. Anyway, here it is –
That’s why we keep utilizing all types of transport services in the city – to discover interesting things that we can write/blog about 🙂
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Orange Juice vending machine is new to me. Never heard of this before. The others I have seen it here.
Fresh orange juice vending machine is new, ya! 🙂
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Interesting machines! That orange juice machine is amazing
I wish they had priced an orange juice around 50-60 rupees though.
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I tried it today. Its awesome. I don’t think its expensive. It uses 4 orange to make one juice(100% pure juice. no water). Its around 60 to 75 rupees in the market(120 rupees per KG and it have 5 oranges).
Thanks for your comment. My comparison was with Kamala orange juice 🙂
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Both these machines are so cool! I have never seen these even in foreign countries. Proud of India 🙂
Metro seems to be doing some interesting things to attract travelers 🙂
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