Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 4 days agoYou have to pay them minimum wage, It’s just called “monthly maintenance expenses” and it’s quite a bit more than minimum pay for humans
Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 4 days agoYou have to pay them minimum wage, It’s just called “monthly maintenance expenses” and it’s quite a bit more than minimum pay for humans
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 days ago
Is it? I can buy a vending machine for less than $8000. Converting that cost to minimum wage, that is ~28 full time weeks worth of labor to act as a mechanism to sell items. There are probably a lot of times when the cost in capital is less than the cost in labor.