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| Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | Views: 328 |
| Jul 21, 2009 10:49 am | | Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Coca-Cola is currently test-marketing a new kind of vending machine. It's a vending machine that is simpler to operate and maintain, but offers more than 100 soda drink combinations. Check it out at Coca-Cola Free-Style. If you have actually seen and used this vending machine, please share your experience with it on this thread. I would really like to see my local country club carry this vending machine. I think it might just help attract a much larger customers base. Just imagine. You could actually design a new soft drink taste using this machine.
Lamar Morgan
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| Jul 21, 2009 11:12 am | | re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Much betetr link http://fastfood.freedomblogging.com/2009/07/20/coca-cola-to-test-freestyle-100-drink-beverage-bar-in-oc/28765/
Once the novelity wears off, do you really think people will go out of their way for a soda?
Lamar, why don't you convince Coke to lease you one and you can place it on Main street. Thatw ill get peopel to stop in their cars. And it could pay for teh banner.
"Stop in Middleton for some Coke, we have over 100 lines ready for you."
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| Jul 21, 2009 12:40 pm | | re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Scott,
I doubt they have one of those Free-Style Coke machines in the entire county here in Mayberry RFD Land. Have you seen it anywhere in New York City?
They won't have it at the Twin Pine Casino here in Middletown due to the Pepsi affiliation. Since this machine is being test-marketed right now, I wonder if the local golf & country club would be interested in showcasing it? Being the novelty that it is, I really think it would draw in more traffic for the restaurant.
However, this vending machine is much more than a novelty. It is actually a much better way to deliver the soft drink product. It actually MAKES the soft drinks from favored containers. It does not just squirt it out with carbonated water. You can actually design your own soft drink. But, that is not all. The machine does its own inventory control. This is very helpful to the restaurant. In addition, the machine tracks customer usage and reports that feedback to Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, GA.
Lamar Morgan
CDMM - Synergistic Business Marketing
707-709-8605
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| Jul 21, 2009 1:19 pm | | re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | It is only be tested in CA in the OC. Since you used to live in Atlanta, give coke a call. Perhaps they will place one in your country club. You are a marketing person, sell them on the idea.
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| Jul 21, 2009 6:35 pm | | re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Murray Farrell | | What a great idea Scott. That would certainly be Kudos for Lamar's marketing career and put him on the map. Just imagine all the press coverage the little town could get with their new PR hook.
Wow, Scott you are a genius with an idea like that. All it needs is a local guy on the ground to do something about it. This project would have to be undertaken under a cloud of secrecy, less some other locale gets wind of the idea and then every other little town will be trying to get in on the act.
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| Jul 23, 2009 2:18 am | | re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi are involved in a lot more than soft drinks. While you can get Pepsi soft drinks in any Atlanta grocery store, Coca-Cola pretty much reigns in Atlanta. But, out here in the Mayberry RFD Land of Northern California, it appears that Pepsi reigns supreme...at least with the casino crowd (which is huge). However, the little restaurant with which I am associated is a Coca-Cola client. Therefore, there may actually be a way to bring the Free-Style Vending Machine here. Look, we got Fox News to make a trip here. We got Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to write a letter. Why not get Coca-Cola to introduce its Free-Style Vending Machine to ALL of Northern California here in Hidden Valley Lake rather than San Francisco. Let the folks from the famous Bay Area drive up here for a change. Yes, let's do the unconventional where the news media would least expect it to happen - a golf country club & restaurant.
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| Jul 23, 2009 9:18 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Go fo it Lamar, call Coek up and tell them what you want. BTW in Purchase NY, Pepsi is king along with IBM.
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| Jul 24, 2009 4:32 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Scott,
In Atlanta, IBM used to have a big operation - an entire office park. Maybe they still do. I don't know, since I no longer live there. Comedian Jeff Foxworthy ("You Might Be a Redneck") used to be a salesman for them. Anyway, I have often wondered what the business model for IBM is these days. I mean, IBM used to be THE COMPUTER COMPANY and Xerox used to be THE COPIER COMPANY. It looks to me like neither are any longer the case. What's the current situation?
Lamar Morgan
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707-709-8605
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| Jul 24, 2009 9:12 am | | Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | They changed with the times. BTW Xerox was founded right here in Queens NY [despite what Wikipedia says Chester Carlson invented the process in Astoria] . But IBM and Pepsi are headquartered in Westchester NY.
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| Jul 24, 2009 9:34 am | | re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Murray Farrell | | You may like to read the following:-
Many innovation programs are leaned towards supporting those that have already demonstrated a capacity for success. It neglects those who need help to get started or pointed in the right direction. Those who would hand their idea to someone else or leave it in the shed neglected. Consider that the photocopier was an Australian invention given to Xerox.
Source: - http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/228-IAWA.pdf
Now that was referring to the monochrome copier. I am sure that you will find that the colour process came from the same source. What fools we Australians have been.
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| Jul 24, 2009 9:58 am | | re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Murray, is there any other proof about this?
Here is more info, left out of the Wikipedia.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/xerography.htm
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| Jul 24, 2009 11:09 am | | re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lindy Asimus | | Think the Australian claim is bunkum.
Good story, I heard it years ago, how he tried for years to get someone interested in it to no avail.
Here's some about it.
Lindy
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/History-of-The-Photocopier_W0QQugidZ10000000004761888
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| Jul 24, 2009 11:11 am | | re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lindy Asimus | | More story here
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/carlson.htm
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| Jul 25, 2009 12:18 am | | re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Scott,
Whereas Coke is still viewed as a soft drink company, is IBM still viewed as a maker of mainframe and desktop computers? Or, has the emphasis of what IBM is all about substantially changed? These days, when it comes to PC's, I see more Dell Computers being promoted than IBM computers. And, when was the last time you actually saw a Xerox copier for sale anywhere? They simply do not seem to be as common as they once were.
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| Jul 25, 2009 5:27 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Murray Farrell | | I believe IBM sold of their PC division to Lenovo some time ago.
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| Jul 25, 2009 7:57 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | There are not many mainframes anymore, mostly multi-servers. There is little real money in consumer PC's anymore. I have seem any Xerox copeirs being sold, but not at the consumer level. Again there is no money in it. Xerox lost their edge when the government forced them to give their patents away for free to other companies [mostly Japanese]. But what they excell at today is document managment.
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| Aug 09, 2009 12:29 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Lamar Morgan 707-709-8605 | | Scott,
I know this is way off-topic so far as the Coke Freestyle Dispenser is concerned, but when you say Xerox is today a document management company, are you saying that Xerox has become a sofware company? I mean, Xerox has not become like Fed-X Kinko's. I don't see Xerox anywhere these days so far as consumer retail products are concerned.
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| Aug 09, 2009 8:55 am | | Coca-Cola's New "Free-Style" Vending Machines | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Yes,
They are both a hardware and software company. There is more to the world than the consumer market.
When you send a letter to your 401 provider [or any other regulated entity] they must keep the letter for 7 years after your last business occurence. They also need to be able to refferance it when you call. They use high speed scanners to create an image, then they index it to your account info.
If you notice you will find bar codes on your bank, credit card and otehr statments. This way when you send tehm a copy tehy have that index info already.
Fedex is in the busines of delivery of good. Kinko makes copies. They do some documemt management but not on the scale of Xerox.
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