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The future of vending : final report

University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office

Vending across university campuses has traditionally been seen as a method for dispensing beverages and convenience snack items when it is not feasible or inconvenient to go to a market or café. This Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) project investigates what students at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are using in vending machines on campus and what they would like to see vended in such machines under the dorm-life paradigm as well as the commuter student lens. One area this project investigated was the possibility for replacing a mini-mart in the Vantage College Orchard Commons with a vending option, while the other area focused on the campus in its entirety. These objectives were researched by creating a survey for students to fill out online or in person that investigated students desires to see different types of food and beverage options in vending and also to see what types of essential items they might be interested in purchasing from vending. A pre-test was included in the methodology for creating the survey to ensure adequate depth to the questions and that surveys would take approximately five minutes to fill out. Forty-four surveys were collected for analysis and results showed students at UBC were interested in vending items outside of the standard beverages and convenience food items. Students that considered the residence experience were more interested in seeing non-food items including cold/flu medicines, shampoo and various other non-food items. Some students wanted to see healthier, fresh options, but the opinions were split between wanting to see the fresh options and not being able to trust the safety of such items. It is the recommendation of this report to further investigate systems such as Shop24 and implement one of those vending options that includes non-food options and more fresh options.

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University of British Columbia. LFS 450; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0108831

Land and Food Systems, Faculty of

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