Even not that long ago in the UK, like ten, maybe fifteen years... You'd still see Clix vending machines with pre measured, powdered drink in them. Good luck on figuring out which soup it was. It was just labelled as "soup." ...and it was always mediocre but massively welcome if you were in a hospital, office, cold railway station etc.

Excellent... They're pretty good at shooing off people who wait too long at the loading zone outside our local store and it's also on multiple levels. Car park is on the roof, oddly!

Exactly. I went today to pick up some extra parts and went straight to the warehouse via the registers the wrong way. I was out in 10 mins.