The onward march of Amazon and how we use this shopping experience continues apace.
Those familiar with Morrisons in Chorlton will know the yellow machine just outside the entrance.
And then there is this one on Barlow Moor Road.
Both have been a permanent features of the landscape for a while.
The challenge and indeed the offer if you so choose, is to post your own ones, and building on that theme, share other different street vending machines, be they the old milk ones, Wrigley’s chewing gum, Five Boy’s Chocolate or Pink Paraffin dispensers.
There is of course no reward, just the pleasure in knowing you have added to the collection of street furniture, past and present.
Added to which there is a serious side to this, which is the ever-onward search for more about how we lived through the bits we used and continue to use.
So, the dispenser for Senior Service cigarettes, reminds us of both a time when this brand was available and popular, as could be bought from machines across the country.
While of course online shopping took a new turn with Amazon.
Pictures; Amazon street furniture, Chorlton, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and cigarette vending machine, 2016, from the collection of Elizabeth and Colin Fitzpatrick
Those familiar with Morrisons in Chorlton will know the yellow machine just outside the entrance.
And then there is this one on Barlow Moor Road.
Both have been a permanent features of the landscape for a while.
There is of course no reward, just the pleasure in knowing you have added to the collection of street furniture, past and present.
Added to which there is a serious side to this, which is the ever-onward search for more about how we lived through the bits we used and continue to use.
So, the dispenser for Senior Service cigarettes, reminds us of both a time when this brand was available and popular, as could be bought from machines across the country.
While of course online shopping took a new turn with Amazon.
Pictures; Amazon street furniture, Chorlton, 2020, from the collection of Andrew Simpson, and cigarette vending machine, 2016, from the collection of Elizabeth and Colin Fitzpatrick
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