Machine street

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Modern machine street opened in Karl-Marx-Stadt: A modern, covered machine street with 16 machines was opened on December 12, 1959 in the center of Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz). With this modern facility, the trade organs of the German Democratic Republic implemented one of the demands of the Leipzig Trade Conference.
Covered machine street with 16 machines in Karl-Marx-Stadt ( Chemnitz ) in 1959

A machine line refers to a series of self-service machines set up or hung up next to one another , from which various everyday products can be obtained using cash or electronic payment systems . Vending machine streets are often found in residential areas , canteens , vending machine restaurants , train stations and busy places.

History in Germany

The first vending machine streets were built in Germany in the 1950s to circumvent the times of the shop closing law . The Main-Taunus-Zentrum in Sulzbach , Hesse , for example, was one of the first shopping centers in the Federal Republic of Germany to house a 32-meter-long vending machine street with 13,000 compartments in 1964. In the 1970s, the machine streets largely disappeared from the public roads of the Federal Republic, as the burglary rate and fraud with counterfeit coins made a business unprofitable.

In the German Democratic Republic , the trade organization (HO) implemented one of the demands of the Leipzig Trade Conference in 1959 with automatic machines .

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Where the customer is king. In: Zeit Online . Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius , May 29, 1964, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Manfred Köhler: 50 years Main-Taunus-Zentrum - The vending machine. In: FAZ.NET . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, May 1, 2014, accessed on May 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Criminal cases and solutions - Issue: On the tram. In: uni-giessen.de. Justus Liebig University Giessen , 2000, accessed on May 28, 2015 .