Inventor Turns Vending Machine Into a Small Grocery The Telegraph
go to original April 9, 2014

An inventor has built a giant vending machine, as a way of helping rural communities that have lost their village shop. Inventor Peter Fox told BBC News how it works. (BBC/Skendong)

An engineer has designed the UK's first automated shop, allowing villagers who have lost their local store to stock up on provisions again.

Electrical engineer Peter Fox spent two-and-a-half years honing the shop - which he describes as a 'giant vending machine' - before it was installed this week outside a pub in Clifton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

Residents can use cash or credit cards to buy milk, eggs, toiletries, kitchen essentials, pet food and even umbrellas and the machine will send out an email when its stock levels are getting low.

Mr Fox says the stores, which will be introduced to other villages in the area in the coming months, would herald a return to convenience shopping for people in rural communities who have lost their local shop.

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