UK farms enlist vending machines to offer dairy products

Image courtesy of iStock.
February 15, 2021
Several Gloucestershire, U.K. farmers are selling their products from vending machines, according to a gloucesterlive.co.uk report.
- Godsells Cheese, at its Leonard Stanley farm, offers fresh milk and several cheeses, including cheddar, smoked and chili cheese from a machine available 24/7 that accepts cash and card.
- Wholly Gelato offers several flavors of milk in a machine available from 8 am. to 7 p.m.
- Stroud Micro Dairy offers milk, yogurt and kefir from a vending machine. Customers must use a code provided by the staff.
- Abbey Home Farm offers non-homogenized organic milk, cream, butter and cheese from a vending machine.
- Church Street Grocer offers skim milk, semi-skim milk and cream from a vending machine at the back of the store, which is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week days.