Vending machine has people bowing, pressing buttons for chips
The Fantastic Delites machine in Australia wants people do to embarrassing tasks instead of pay money
It's no secret that people like free things and the people at Fantastic Delites, an Australian snack food company, have set up a vending machine to see just how far people will go...even if it's only for a bag of chips.
As it turns out, people will do as the machine commands.
Fantastic Delites set up the Delite-O-Matic vending machine at a shopping mall in Adelaide and slowly people started walking up to the machine to see what was happening.
The first person only had to put the button 100 times, but then the number started going up and some people had to hit the button 5,000 times. Then the machine got more creative. It asked people to bow down as if they were worshiping the machine and people did as crowds began to gather. People were also told to dance in front of the machine.
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The prizes get better the more work you do. For pushing the button 500 times one receives a pack of snacks, but for pushing it one million times one receives two packs of snacks and a private island holiday in Fiji. Those two packs of snacks will come in handy on the plane. According to the prize page on the company website, no one has pushed the button one million times yet.
The advertising company who developed the campaign, Clemenger BBDO Adelaide, said they were looking for a unique way to get people to taste the product.
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This vending machine isn't the only large, strange one that has made headlines recently. In May, Tourism B.C. set up one in San Francisco that dispensed items like mountain bikes, kayaks and surfboards. It was designed to show people all the different things they could do if they visited B.C.
If you wish you could take part and complete a challenge on the Australian machine, but can't fly to Australia, the company has set up a virtual one on their website. The only problem is no chips drop out of the bottom of your computer. Trust me, I tried.