{"id":9076,"date":"2010-07-03T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-07-03T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:29:49","slug":"japans-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/japans-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s First Banana Vending Machine Debuts In Shibuya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dole_logo.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dole_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9078\" title=\"Dole's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/dole_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/a><br \/>\nThe Japanese local subsidiary of international leading banana distributor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dole.com\/\">Dole<\/a> put the country&#8217;s first banana vending machine at an underground shopping mall in Shibuya last week, which draws people&#8217;s attention.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dole_Billboardad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9079\" title=\"Billboard Advertising by Dole\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Dole_Billboardad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BananaVendingMachine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9080\" title=\"Banana Vendine Machine\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/BananaVendingMachine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe vending machine has a fridge and maintains stored bananas at 13 degrees Celsius (=55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) which is the best temperature to keep them in good condition.<br \/>\nBobby banana being sold by this vending machine is available at 130 yen (USD1.5 approx.) per piece or 390 yen (USD4.5 approx.) per bunch, which is a little bit more expensive than its supermarket price. But more than 1,000 pieces have been sold since the machine was set up a week ago. The machine is capable of having 100 packages (some are pieces, others are bunches), and a machine maintainer carries and sets new bananas every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese local subsidiary of international leading banana distributor Dole put the country&#8217;s first banana vending machine at an underground shopping mall in Shibuya last week, which draws people&#8217;s attention. The vending machine has a fridge and maintains stored bananas at 13 degrees Celsius (=55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) which is the best temperature to keep them&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/japans-first-banana-vending-machine-debuts-in-shibuya\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s First Banana Vending Machine Debuts In Shibuya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,9,17,24],"tags":[367,954,3295],"class_list":["post-9076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-banana","tag-dole","tag-shibuya","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}