Adults-Only Vending Machine Debuts from Kraft
278 Comments | Written on December 21, 2011 at 1:00 pm, by Lesley Kennedy
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Of all the jobs we thought couldn’t be threatened by technology, we never thought we’d see those women who hand out free samples in the grocery store replaced by a machine. Guess we were wrong. As USA Today reports, Kraft Foods has teamed up with Intel to unveil a new high-tech vending machine that doles out free samples of Jell-O Temptations desserts — but only if you’re an adult.
The sci-fi gizmo uses a camera and (creepy-sounding) “Anonymous Video Analytics technology” to determine, among other things, a customer’s age — baby faces will be asked to back away from the machine.
Sorry, kiddies, your pudding will have to be purchased.
“This is wow,” Steven Keith Platt, director of research and consulting company Platt Retail Institute, tells USA Today. “I’ll now have the ability to interact with a cool device that dispenses a unique product vs. walking up to some old lady with a white apron on.”
Hey, call us Luddites if you must, but we quite enjoy snagging a sample from that old lady in an apron. However, given that the food and beverage industry spends a whopping $1 billion a year on samples, according to the newspaper, we guess we can understand why companies might want to streamline things and ensure products are reaching the right target audiences.
But does that mean adults will be kept from trying foods targeted at kids, like, say, the latest offerings from Trix, Bagel Bites or Cheetos? Because if that’s the case, we’ll definitely take the old lady. The cool quotient only goes so far.
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And do they let the aborted children grow up first and let their taste-buds mature and their teeth come in before feeding them foods to taste, or do they feed them foods right after they come out??? You never explained how Kraft does this. It’s a very interesting concept.
@ susan houchen: Wait, I don’t get it! How do aborted children taste anything if they are aborted?
Personally–I think that KRAFT is already reprehensibile and repugnant for using aborted children to test the flavors of their product. This is just one more step of whoever the idiot is the boadroom, that sucks. KRAFT—-If you are listening—stop already. You have lost the integrity your company once had. Get back to the basics. Keep it personal instead of technical. I hate your company more everyday.
I PREFER TO INTERACT WITH A HUMAN BEING….THIS IMPERSONAL TOUCH is repugnant. I prefer a person. Notice the “desensitization of the all seeing eye”. Thats Big Brother for you—more to this than meets that eye.
More free stuff! And the Govt is not involved! Guess I won’t have to pay for pudding anymore.
Next vending machine breakthrough: Prostitute. You step in, like for a photo booth, close the curtains. A little window opens up and, well, you know the rest. (probably not from Kraft though).
Good luck with all of that.
An “adult” vending machine for PUDDING????? What a waste of time and money for developing.
I think this comes in at number 12 trillion, approximately, on my list of things to be concerned about.
Quit complaining. If a job is outdated, it shouldn’t exist. RedBox drove Hollywood Video out and will soon claim Blockbuster. Now videos are around a buck a night. Viva technology.
Yes, videos will soon be a thing of the past and so will Redbox….
When are these companies going to realize that they are killing themselves by cutting jobs here!
They don’t care Ron, the only thing they care about is the bottom line and how much money they are putting in investors pockets. They aren’t smart enough to figure out that without jobs there is no money to spend to line the pockets of their investors. Oh wait I forgot for a minute, we are being forced into a socialist nation where all of us will be poor and only a few will be rich, just like the old soviet block countries
Hey Ron, how many jobs do you think were created to design, build and program these machines? Not to mention transporting, installation and refilling the machine. Probably more than one old lady!
Two things to consider. First, normally the little old ladies are preparing the food as they hand it out, it’s prepared as it’s needed. How is Kraft going to handle this? Prepare all of the food in the morning? How much do you need? Will you run out before noon or have a lot left over that evening? How will it be stored so that it looks and appears fresh? Will you risk food poisoning? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. And speaking of lawsuits, my second point is: wait for a “little person” to be refused service by one of these machines. That will be a nice discrimination lawsuit. So, all in all, I think the lawyers will be cheering for this machine. And a third point, even though I said only two. American companies haven’t figured out that whether they save money by replacing people with machines or moving their jobs overseas, a nation full of unemployed people don’t buy their products. To whom will they sell their pudding?
“baby faces will be asked to turn away” – no specifics are given to height or the proprietary technology to differentiate adults from children.
Technology is capable of doing some amazing profiling based on facial features thanks to human design and engineering – think psychologist on steroids plus House in one.
But then I forget our litigious society is out to deter new ideas on the grounds of laws written by lawyers enforced by lawyers for the profit of lawyers. Just look at bankruptcy now requiring nearly 1500 bucks on average. Bankruptcy requires money in that amount makes a questionable societal choice.
Can you blame anyone for moving jobs overseas where there are fewer lawyers? Might avoid some lawsuits and a few labor laws to boot. Transport costs are cheaper than the unknown paperwork-judge-jury plague.
Nowadays commercial food is so “preserved” that even mold isn’t interested in eating it. I mean, opened jelly that still has no mold in it after two years? I imagine they can make pudding that will last ten years. And it might be a pudding powder mixed with powdered milk. Just add water.
It’s nothing like the real thing, but then, it’s all about your history of eating. If all you’ve ever known is Jell-O Pudding, then I’m sure it’s the greatest. When I was a kid, I just thought Spaghettios & Meatballs were the greatest. But then I moved away from home and started making my own spaghetti. A few years ago, I got a can of Spaghettios, thinking I’d enjoy them as much as I did when I was a kid. I was so disappointed. The meatballs looked so nasty and when I cut into one, some “juice” squirted out of it and I sort of felt an incomplete retch surface.
So I imagine anyone who eats home-made pudding would not be impressed by any kind of instant pudding whipped up by a machine.
This approach saves dollars- Labor dollars – It is a fact that people cost dollars per hour plus healthcare benefits costs, but machines cost only purchase price and a little electricity and set up costs. On the other hand, Hiring a much less attractive woman typically costs less than hiring a highly attractive one for a job like offering samples at the grocery store (partly because most women shoppers would not be interested in her as someone to look at – and women shop for groceries more than men by far ) , so you wouldn’t expect Hooters-type girls at the local grocer to be offering samples of cookies etc. So, the machine is cheaper than either of the women options at the grocery store, but it will be tough getting any questions you might have answered
Kids, just say no to pudding.
So, what if little people want to try this? Guess they didn’t think of that one.
You are silly/ Little people are real people.
It’s OK, they couldn;t reach the buttons anyway.
I am a strong proponent for beer flavored lucky charms and cheerios, as well as the meat ice cream flavors- bacon is only the beginning….
Shame on you Steven Platt, how dare you have such disrespect for “older people” How dare you!!!! free or not, I would never support anything by this company based on your response…
Beware – you will be “some old guy” someday!!!
Get a sense of humor.
It was not meant for humor just degrading the older generation. Don’t blow it off by “humor”. Bill Cosby is humor. This is tasteless.
Get a sense of humor.
Hey, most of the product demonstrators are old, just as the Walmart greeters are. In some stores most of the food demo people are women. So what? Is “old” now a derogatory term? Since when?
If Platt had caid “old broad” you’d be right to complain. But he said “lady.”
I am 65 years OLD. Yes, I am getting OLD. Does it bother me to be called OLD? No.
Say it loud, we’re OLD and proud!
You may call them “Old Ladies in white aprons”, but sampling in various grocery stores was one of my part time jobs in college! I had a job on campus between classes M-F, one that was just a couple of evenings during the week every couple of weeks, and this one that was on weekends. I graduated with a 3.9 average and no debt!
nobody cares
I agree, nobody cares.
S K Platt needs to go to sensitivity school. Referring to employees of Kraft, and other companies giving samples, as little old ladies in white aprons is very demeaning. You should be ashamed.
I’m older. Trust me — many old people suck. They are just weaker, slower and grouchy versions of sucky young people. And they probably hate you Kim. Honestly, ’cause of lots of old people are haters.
Removing the human contact when a company is sampling a product is a serious mistake. Technology is great but not in every situation.Kraft should think twice before using such a cold and impersonal idea in the market place.
next will be condoms …just for adults…right.
EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO CONDOMS IF THEY ARE HAVING SEX
Of course, YO YO! How’s a poor rapist going to know if the woman he’s molesting and murdering could have a disease? Besides, if he is not “protected” he can leave DNA evidence. And these “protection” rights certainly should be available to the 16-year-old hoodlum forcing himself (physically or mentally) on the 14-year-old girl in his neighborhood. Let’s keep hygiene way above such considerations as morality — so have our schools keep teaching how to use condoms; never allow them to teach virtue!
Oh god, just STFU
Colorado…
Somehow I imagine you wouldn’t call it rape if a 16 year old girl slept with a 14 year old boy. And besides, if the 14 year old CHOOSES to sleep with the 16 year old, then yes, I’d like them to have condoms. I’m morally against having to pay for another teen pregnancy with my tax money. That morally pisses me right off.
Obviously we just need to create another law… One that requires that rapists to leave their used condoms at the scene of their crime to assist the cops in their search for DNA evidence…
[/sarcasm]
Am I misreading this? It seems like you think schools teaching responsible use of condoms will encourage rape. Why can’t you teach safe sex and morals and virtue at the same time.
just as long as they can pay for it!
Everyone should have access to a shift key if they are typing on a public website.
they already have adult only machines that sell everything from dildos and condoms to porn and masterbation lotions. i own 12 and make a very good living of the profits, have been for years now.
Condoms….’just for adults’ right? Well who the hell else would need a condom ya dope!
This is how marijuana should be sold.
think that’s what there testing now
What about midgets or little people? Are they going to be called “children” by this machine?
maybe make the adult vending machine to practicle use as adult items, Not like taking a vending machine to sell beer @ bar instead of a bar tender. Like those of us who remember vending machine selling a pack of smokes.. Selling pudding, and junk like that won’t sell. Maybe Jello Shot’s, and where legal rolling papers…lol
Back when I was in the military (quite a few decades ago), the laundromat on base had vending machines that sold cans of beer. Best I remember, the washing machines were $0.25 and the beer machine was $0.50. There was also a pool table and some pinball machines in the laundromat. It made having to do your laundry on the weekends a lot more bearable.
stupid idea-waste of money that could be better spent
just another jobless person, who counted on a few extra bucks from handing out samples on the weekends…
I see a movie coming out!
I can see this going very wrong and insulting an adult by labeling them a child. Then there will be lawsuits.
And vise versa. What happens when a child that looks older is allowed to use the machine as an adult?
Cause god forbid a child who looks older get a free pudding sample……
I’ve tried Jell-O Temptations. They are terrible. No wonder they are free.
Its all inevitable that machines will take over mundane human functions eventually. Pretty soon I am sure they will just have a shrink wrap machine and auto check register thats totally automated. As others have said these technologies will create a new category of workers who reprogram, maintain and track these machines which replace manual labor human counterparts. Such is the modern life
costco should do something about their crappy customer service at the hot dog and pizza stand. everytime i go to the tacoma costco they have 6 lines, 4 registers and only one person working any of the registers, and to top it off–the person running the register normally doesnt speak english! hilarious!
as for the vending machines–bring em, they’re just part of the marketing angle.
Sambo-try eating real food at an actual restaurant, or at home. Why would you eat that garbage from Costco? Do you spend that much time in that store that you have to have your meals there too? Ick.
Sambo…..anyone who eats the food at Costco is nuts to begin with! Try a little home cooking.
What about people of short stature?
I’ve wondered about that. There are plenty of adults under 5 feet tall, just as there are children who are over 6 feet tall. If the machine has face recongnition software and height recognition software, then there might be only a few errors, but it’s a fair question.
What about individuals in wheelchairs?
You mean midgets??
As a mom I think this is ridiculous. I know I am more likely to buy a product if the kids like it. More importantly one machine will take away an average of 3 jobs! at minimum. Most of those women only work part time! If you figured a low estimate of only 2 machines a state, thats 300 jobs lost to a machine! Sams club already stiffed the “old ladies”. About 1-2 years ago they FIRED all their sample people. They then got hired back for less pay, doing the same samples PLUS more work for LESS $! The catch? They no longer work for “sams” but for the private company contracted by sams! Is it any wonder I canceled my membership? My widowed MIL is one of those little old ladies!
People have to make the machines, service the machines, develop the software for the machines, stock the machines, retire the machines and upgrade to new machines. Sounds like more than three jobs to me.
hell ya
Yea,,,maybe the “old lladies” can learn technology and service the machines or install software/firmware upgrades and stock them
agreed!
Seriously? You all are getting this upset over a marketing ploy? You’re still going to have old ladies handing samples, this is ONE product being handed out via machine and not a person. No worry you freaks, shnitzel will still be staffed by a person. The freak talking about the Gov. and all that garbage…seriously? You think they care that much about little old you? This is not Minority Report, take off your little tin foil hat and rejoin the rest of society. If you want to get up and arms over the Gov. find a better cause, like FRACKING or loss of rights with every bills passed by congress.
So what if the company wants to put this machine in stores? If it’s not used, people aren’t buying their product, they’ll go away. It’s rather simple and to get this hyped up over it is simply idiotic. You make it sound as if this replacing ALL the free sample jobs, but low and behold it’s not, all the other samples that are NOT this pudding will still be a person. So pull the stick out of your ass, if you don’t like it, don’t use it, simple as that.
wow…and YOU are that upset over the response of strangers? …Well, thank gosh you set everyone right! The world can sleep more safely.
I pretty much agree with Ron: Gimmick! Some suckers will fall for any marketing ploy (like those green change counters that stiff you a few cents for every dollar dumped in.) Maybe his reply is heartfelt and voluminous but that’s mostly because of the anonymity of the Interwebs and too much free time (as can be said about MY post!). Yes, some innovation is bad for “human labor” (Remember the song “John Henry?), then more innovation and marketing creates other jobs: Think about the folks peddling Google StreetCam trikes in off-road areas and parks! Who’d'ah thunk? (Yes, facetious! Too much free time, re: above.) BTW, Ron, the expression is:
Definition of LO AND BEHOLD
—used to express wonder or surprise
First Known Use of LO AND BEHOLD
1808 (From Merriam Webster Online Dictionary)
… um … who’d'ah thunk that some old-fart dictionary writer would become and official “web-ster???” Yes, too much time! (Oops: I said “old!”)
Those green change counters or “Coin Star” machines donate those few cents from your dollar to charities, plus who is paying for the service and maintenance of the machines YOU are using? certainly not the company, but yes YOU! I absolutely do not mind donating a small fraction of my spare change to either a local boys and girls club or early intervention center and pay Coin Star pennies on the dollar than to count several thousand coins by hand or waste money on those cheap crappy automatic coin rollers that break during their first use
The more machines, the less jobs for people handing out samples! Same as self-check out registers! I refuse to use them and do my part to take a stand! People need these jobs!
We can’t make our society less efficient so people will have jobs. No one delivers milk or ice anymore.
what are you Amish? refusing to use technology that’s not even that new is a stupid stand to make
Way to go Carrie! Your brilliance is solidifying the existence of a few low-paying, low-skill positions to the detriment of technology, efficiency, and progress! Dimwit.
Seriously?…dispensing free globs of pudding is progress?…you set the bar low..welcome to the revolution. You know, it is our responsibility to solidify the existence of low skilled jobs, otherwise you will be paying them unemployment, which costs YOU more in taxes. Great ‘progressive’ thinking. I honor you, great defender of the Pudding Robots.
And surely you ride a horse to work so those bad “horseless carriage” promoters won’t put the buggy builders (et al) out of work, right? The “stand” you take should be in the brain line. Churchill was right: “If you aren’t a liberal by the time you’re 20, you don’t have a heart; and if you aren’t a conservative by the time you’re 30, you don’t have a brain.”
What about the people who mfg, program, install, and maintain those self-check-out registers and the ATMs? The ATMs and the self-check-out options employ more than just a single person and also require different skill levels.
Hey y’all…Big news! They’ve been using this “idea” in their marketing for quite some time. It has nothing at all to do with no kids allowed or messy unruly children (who, by the way, behave better than the majority of adults these days). It’s a JOKE. No one needs to sue anyone or anything. It’s more like “calgon take me away…” This is MOM’S pudding, not regular run of the mill snack paks!
at the health food store i used to work at, there were unmanned sample stations everywhere. Put them about 5 feet off the floor and you will not have a problem. This machine seems like a dumb idea…
I think the main reason for making it adults only are similar to the reasons why (every place that I have been) the free sample people have told my children that I had to say it was ok. There are risks of allergies and all sorts of other things that might get a company sued by a parent. Also, knowing kids, you know that they’ll stand there getting as many free samples as they possibly can for as long as they can. So I think it just made common sense for it to be intended for use by adults only. Know what I mean?
I don’t think it was meant for children not to try the samples but more for it to be monitored by a parent.
This type of technology is dangerous if misused. They can capture your retinal image and voice print and identify you. You are then a part of their data base. This is invasive and very Big Brother. If you do not believe this do your research. Very soon as you walk around adds will be targeted to you personally. Companies or Governments can also use this same tech to deny you the ability to purchase a product deemed not appropriate for you.
whatever you say nut job
LMFAO!!!
Terminator, rise of the machines.
Yeah, it’s gonna get misused: ALL technology gets misused: Checked your spam folder recently? Stay educated and ahead of the abuse curve and live your life well, without cheating, stealing, pirating … act out of love and care instead of selfishness, greed. Maybe some of us are right about a loving Creator who protects or sooths us. Worth the chance … stay off the Internet: It’s dangerous here! (Ha!) ;}
Then they will kill you to make Soylent Green to feed the starving masses!
so why can’t they make technology to stop child pornography?
You would think so. This is something that needs the effort
They have to have the technology to track these things in real time. The best hackers in the world are utilized by our own government to track and take down things like this, but it would cost our economy more than it is worth for them to do so. Unfortunately, the government is more concerned with the ability to stop a murderer or save the movie/music industries some money than the ability to stop someone who murders a child’s innocence. I, as a parent, personally think it is reprehensible for anyone with the power to stop an act so gruesome to allow it to go on.
maybe you should do it then yourself
Yeah! Because everyone knows that Jamie has as much power and money as the U.S. Government! NOT!!!
So just because she doesn’t she shouldn’t try? Lip service doesn’t mean a whole lot.
What the sam-hill are you talking about??
It’s too bad they don’t make one of these to control the doors to restaurants and bars.
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL IDEA… but what about people like me who don’t look their age? I am thirty four, and i still get carded by the guy at the liquor store where i live who one year ago, the first time i went into this particular store, DIDN’T believe i was over 21.
from your reply, I’d guess mid tweens
Uh oh, given the majority of the comments on here, no matter how clever (and I think innovative) a marketing campaign is may be I think it’s a failure if most people simply don’t ‘get it’.
People get it fine. There never has been any “fun” interacting with a vending machine no matter how much companies hype that. Safeway sometimes has alcohol vendors come in and give wine or beer samples. The lady handing out samples of beer was young, cute, and fun to talk with… unlike the square machine in the picture. Thats where the tech-heads “don’t get it”.
Excellent marketing. However the profit margin must be unbelievable on pudding if they think the profit gained by people actually buying the product because of this machine out weighs the purchase and maintenance costs of these machines. Maybe a cheaper version would be an old lady to hand them out to kids, and then hire someone to jump out of nowhere and slap them out of the kids hands screaming ‘Not for YOU!!!’
Jeff N Too fuuny!
Too funny, laughing too hard to spell
Come on people…what about the children that are diabetic or have food allergies. If an adult wants to disregard the repercussions of a reaction that’s their choice, but it is brilliant that it won’t allow a child to go mmmmmmmm want it!! and have a deadly reaction…..age discrimination??really??? It’s awesome!
I am going to give out free samples of cat poop this saturday at costco. I know some of the old people will be back 2-3 times for as many as they can grab.
Used to be free samples were to intro new products – now it is just pablum to keep the old people quiet. I literally saw them handing out samples of bread last week.
Bread?! What will they think of next – why this could revolutionize sandwich making.
Sheesh.
I wish I could be deeply offended at your crass comments — but I am laughing too hard.
Ditto!!
I use vending machines as little as possible.
Obviously, the reason they made this ‘adults-only’ is because most children have no self-control when it comes to foods they like and they’d probably happily sit there and take free sample after free sample. And what if the parents didn’t want their children having sweets? That’s why they made it adults-only. That way, if the parent wants their child to have one, they can just stand in front of it, make the selection and hand it to their child.
Jesus, ignorance runs rampant.
Obviously you know NOTHING about real children. Sounds like you are one.
On top of the fact what about children that are diabetic or have allergies and don’t totally know better. I think it’s genius.
Or the more logical reasoning: Kids don’t buy shit. Adults do.
Or, reasoning that actually makes sense:
Kids don’t buy things. Adults do.
Actually, the 8 – 18 year old demographic has more dispensable income than any other. Plus, the “nag” factor is fairly effective at coercing a purchase from mom or dad, if necessary. What else could explain the amount of advertising directed at the “non-adults” in our society?
Everyone is reading far too into this marketing stunt. Jello Temptations are marketed as “only for adults” to capture what is surely a market that feels pudding is only for children. Hence, the machine that will not dispense to children. It’s not a machine replacing old ladies at Costco. Geesh.
Exactly.. If people actually looked at pictures and read articles with their eyes open, they would see that the picture’s “ATTENTION” label reads: “ATTENTION: Sorry, kid. Your too young to appreciate indulgence like this. Please step away, so the grownups can get their free treats.”…Eeeeeedddiioootttttssss!!!!
This just confirms my fears that people are basically gullible sheep when it comes to Commerce. I mean really people, Most of us have kids right, and has ANYONE every told them that they couldn’t have or do something, because it would make them end up wanting to do it or have it? Worked wonderfully for the Bus company didn’t it when they told Rosa, She COULD’T sit today. I have NEVER seen a dude holding a can of Dr. Pepper’s only for men “not for women” as they state in their ad. New blend. BUT have seen a woman . Yes, she was wearing flannel, but I don’t think that makes a difference. And high dollar technology for “Pudding”?” Why not something Obvious such as Feminine hygiene products for the poor husband when he’s on that occasional mission of mercy for the Mrs.? Because I don’t know about the rest of you. But there are only teenage boy’s working the checkouts when ever I have had to ” check out in shame. A non judgmental piece of technology would have been so appreciated. Or for the ruined romatic weekends because a man ran into someone they knew also selecting a Condom Brand, and Look, here’s Tyrone, He just reached past the two and grabbed XL Magnums. “OH!” said the first Man. “If it were a snake, It wold have bit me!” The second Man Laughs at the Wit and the obvious “shape” similarity between snake and condom. And they ALL leave with their Magnums. Isn’t that a shame, Did we all just think about how lucky the “little Mrs.” Times three must be?? Hell No!, you and I both know that 2 if not all 3 will find what was suppose to be a very brief interruption in their romantic moment to be QUITE the game Delay as they All now must contemplate a proper “knot” placement on their profoylactic’s ALL BECAUSE OF CORPORATE GREED! Advertisment mind games, Making women feel a bit less than beautiful because they don’t look like the Covergirl Models, No matter the amounts of makeup they buy and try. BECAUSE it’s an illusion, Cause Girls, PHOTOSHOP Brand Makeup does NOT exsist ! BREAK THE CYCLE PEOPLE. And MEN Every body in the world has seen a Condom blown up to the size of a Watermelon and attached to “JUST MARRIED!” vehicle, in every town USA. So I SERIOUSLY doubt that it’s not gonna fit. Don’t play into their Trap that you don’t Measure Up. Give those Ad Exec’s a kick in the crotch and tell your SON the TRUTH when the time comes. Condoms come in 3 sizes. Small, Medium and Liar. And ladies, Tell your daughters, the big Secret of Beauty that I shared. And leave with the satisfaction that the BEAUTIFUL youthful creatures, will SO VERY SOON awaken one day with the same unpleasant task before them when they too must resort to measures such as you and apply Preparation H to their crows feet to help shrink their wrinks. Sweet Karma, You DO get around. And speaking of that – YOU, Mr. Teenage Checkout , I DID hear you snicker when I tossed my Super Absorbency (With Wing’s!) Overnight heavy flow Protection WIth ??Baking Soda?? To tally my bill. Yes, I was in shame, But I left with the satisfaction that you too would soon be in my very shoes. With the very same task, your illusions of what is REAL will be shattered also when you come face to face with the Dark Side of the female that is PMS. And you will not hear your checkout boys chuckle. BUT something more like Austin Power’s, Dr. EVIL’s BWahahaha BUWHAHAHAHAH! that, will be ME! OH, and FYI, those don’t fit those sexy Dental Floss Thongs – But, Mid waist Granny PANTIES!!!! Sweet Dreams, Welcome to Manhood SON.
WOW.. just.. WOW
Bravo!!!
You have WAY too much free time.
What kind of world is this when Jello is for adults only, but a kid can watch porn online anytime he wants. What kind of country is this when a company spends millions on a machine to dispense flippin’ jello while parts of the country is struggling to rebuild from natural disasters. What kind of people vote for a president who plays basketball with celebrities and they pay him 15million to support gay marriage when millions are out of work, our people are getting maimed and killed in Afghanistan, and millions struggle to legitimately feed their families.
messed up Americans.
How about ditching the $1 Billion in free samples and pricing our food cheaper? This world is nuts.
and I suppose you would buy a car without a test drive too
When we shop at Costco, there are plenty of samples given out that my kids try and I buy because they like it and I can feed it to my family. Assuming of course, that it is appropriate for kids. Having four children, it is good to be able to have them sample things too. I have bought many products that I would not have otherwise purchased because of those samples being available and being a hit with me and/or the kids.
Also, I almost always prefer human interaction to machines. I don’t like the human element being taken out of everything.
Agreed. Though the adults obviously make the purchase decisions, it’s the kids in our house that try new things and influence our decisions. As adults we tend to know what we like and stay with it. Our budget is far more influenced by what is affordable, rather than what is new.
You seriously worry about the cost of pudding? I think you have bigger problems than free samples..
HEY, HEY, HEY, SHE’S FAAAAT AALLLBEERRT!!!!!!
So you think mom or dad won’t access the machine, grab the snack and hand it to the kids? Really? Then they’ll need to hire a “human” to be sure that doesn’t happen. This is a dumb idea and puts cute little old ladies in white aprons out of work!
If they didn’t keep the kids away, you wouldn’t be able to get near the thing once kids figured out they could scarf an endless supply of free dessert and there are parents who would simply park their kid there while they went shopping.
Ever try to get near a video game display if there is a playable version reachable by kids/
Whatever….
I never told my kids while growing up that “this food is for adults only”….Technology that can determine if we are “old enough” to try a dessert is just one more way for us to be monitered. And I bet there will be a lot of crying children who won’t understand that they cannnot have the dessert, but they can have the Kraft macaroni and cheese! We are becoming a society that interacts with technology more than humans and it is sad.
Oh my gosh, seriously?! ITS CALLED “Jell-O Temptations” IT’S A MARKETING IDEA! Like someone else said, some people are really reading TOO MUCH into this! Geesh, children aren’t going to starve without a pudding sample. If EVERY child cried when they heard the word “NO”, then the parenting is what is wrong with SOCIETY! I know of several people who if we’re at the store and their kids are acting up and / or whining they get them candy or a toy to calm them down / get them to be good. Umm, last I remember you get a “prize” if you do WELL in something!
I see this down the road.. Costco spends a lot of money paying all those workers to sit and give out samples
This wont be used for jello it will be used for condoms or something!!! Pretty sure the adult industry will buy them!!!
Eh, isn’t this age discrimination?
I don’t see this catching on.
Yeah, so is only selling alcohol to those over 21 and cancer sticks to 18 and over, right?
Because pudding is totally a liver-murdering cancer machine.