Word: restock
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...whatever stimulus package Congress might pass is unlikely. On the factory front, new inventory controls have given managers earlier warning of waning demand than they had in previous slumps, and led them to cut orders before goods piled up to the ceiling. The same controls will lead firms to restock slowly...
...From the wooden boxes of the 1920s to the hulking contraptions of today, Japan's basic vending business has long been the same: someone had a yen (and some coins) and someone else had to drive around and restock those hungry machines with bottles, underwear or dried squid. Now, the paradigm-busting idea is that a growing number of vending machines are beginning to dispense digital data, altering the economics of a business once largely dependent upon a complex system of resale and deliveries. As vending machines lumber into the information age, future purchases will just as likely come...