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More recently, the trend of disintermediation is going a step further to the point where there's almost nothing between the producer and consumer. Vending machines, selling everything from healthcare products to flowers to tech devices like iPods, have been around for a few years and are now popping up in airports and similar venues.
Diane Garnick, investment strategist at Invesco, believes this trend will only accelerate and consumers will increasingly buy high-end items at vending machines without thinking twice about it, just like we all now buy soda and snacks.
Um, sure. People are going to have lots of money to waste on non-essential items in the future, and the growing crowd of surly have-nots aren't going to bust into these things at every opportunity. This is a pantload of wishful thinking, honey.
I could sit there and talk to this woman all week, she's so smart....I'll buy anything she's selling and give her a tip.
I would like to buy a car or even home from vending machine.
Do they have one for Vend-order Brides?
whoa... check out her facebook fan site picture. smokin!
This is not the first time we see irrational behavior of the market. Often, whenever a company lays off workers, the price of its stock goes up. Any rationality there?
This is not the first time we see irrational behavior of the market. Often, whenever a company lays off workers, the price of its stock goes up. Any rationality there?
This is not the first time we see irrational behavior of the market. Often, whenever a company lays off workers, the price of its stock goes up. Any rationality there?
This is not the first time we see irrational behavior of the market. Often, whenever a company lays off workers, the price of its stock goes up. Any rationality there?
Cutting out the middle man would mean for everone of us to be self sufficient. Come on there are only 24 hours in the day for us to do everything!!??, We definately need middle men.
The real middleman we desperately need to cut is the health insurance If we can deal directly with doctors like we use to and they still do it in other countries our medical costs we be down 75%. The doctors and the hospitals get away with charging exuberant prices because they dont deal with the consumers they have a convienient middleman in insurance and the insurance companies just keep on charging up premiums with thier own markups so who pays all that The idiots who pay premiums to the insurance companies, who play on your fear of getting sick getting into an accident and everything else they can think of. The bottom line is insurance is like cancer it is gradually eating us away lets us get rid of it. In this economy if there is anything that I would chop and have it is Insurance.
if I buy an ipod and it don't work who do I bring it back to??????????? ANOTHER DUMB F###555 idear that somebody will get rich from.
What's a vending maching? Why are we here? I there any reason for this? Can I borrow a quarter?
Hi Henry and Aaron. You guys keep talking about a sucker´s rally. Why are the markets so high? Wish You guys would re-cover that area in Your interviews. I don´t think We should be this high. What is going on?
Damn machine won't let go of my iPhone I just bought! *shakes vending machine till it falls on top of him* RIP unboundv
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Rintoul - Friday April 24, 2009 04:20PM EDT
Rarely have I ever read comments such as these. Truly I share the Intertubes with (mostly) a bunch of COMPLETE nitwits.