Best Buy may be flailing, but confronted with vigorous competition from Amazon and other e-commerce retailers, it's also bringing America a service Japanese customers have enjoyed for years: specialized, high-end vending machines. Japan is infamous for its vending machines for used skivvies, but in Japan they also use vending machines to sell live crabs, fried chicken, Buddhist amulets, porn, canned bread, sake, umbrellas, raw eggs, balloons, and even Smart Cars.
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