Vending machine

Generally speaking, let’s walk along a road in Japan, and if we walk for some distance (say few 100 meters), there will be a vending machine, and you can select and buy any cool drink or warm drink from a lot of varieties at anytime and anywhere. 

It is usual in case of Japan, and I did not think it was especially convenient. However, those who are coming from foreign countries might see this as new.

The sales total of the drink from the vending machines in Japan is around US$20 billion. It is very big market that almost rivals the expressway toll fee of about US$22 billion.
The sales route of the drinks can be divided to the store sales and vending machine sales. In this the vending machine sales accounts at about 35%.
The coca cola group has 980,000 vending machines. It is in a leading position in business. It is said that about 47% of the beverage sales of the entire coca cola group is through the vending machines.

 Japan is a major power of vending machines.