A new type of vending machine is being tested by one of the discount chains in Germany

This is the world’s first ALDImat, which sells all the products you may need outside the store’s opening hours. Its introduction was justified by the fact that the opening hours of the stores are more limited than those of most competitors, therefore the discount chain suffers losses in sales of products related to late night garden baking and early morning.

Automated sales can be one way for the store chain to reduce its losses. (origo)