A vend counter is a device to count the number of sales from a vending machine in order to thwart theft by employees servicing the machines. They are most common in full line vending machines, but are becoming increasingly common in bulk vending machines as well.
Some operators of vending machines that lack vend counters compensate for this deficiency by occasionally checking the amount of cash in a machine ahead of time and then sending an employee to service the machine. A discrepancy in the amount of money returned may reveal dishonesty on the part of the employee.
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“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)