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Article: Pepsi introduces credit-card vending. (Store Equipment Industry News).(Pepsi-Cola North America)(Brief Article)
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- National Petroleum News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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Beginning in December, Pepsi-Cola North America, Purchase, N.Y., implemented a wireless-technology system that enables consumers to pay for Pepsi soft drinks with credit cards. Operating on a test basis in Memphis, the card-payment technology will work alongside existing coin and bill payment options, giving consumers three different ways to purchase a drink.
The new system also will allow Pepsi bottlers to receive up-to-the-minute inventory information from the vending machines via a Web browser. Route drivers will know exactly how much product they will need for their daily delivery routes and will no longer carry excess inventory or make unnecessary trips to ...