My local hardware store just installed a vending machine out front of it, in case you need things when they're closed.
I love it.

@wdormann Okay but like this is genius. 🧠 💰

I love that they threw in some snacks and...a pack of cigarettes?! 😂

@javensbukan
Haha. They're candy cigarettes. 😂

@wdormann @javensbukan hold up... Candy cigarettes still exist? Ones that could reasonably be mistaken for real cigarettes??

As a child I caught the tail end of them in australia, they were just barely identifiable.

@coolandnormal @wdormann We used to have "Popeye" branded ones here but they were re-labelled as "Candy Sticks".

https://candynow.ca/products/popeye-candy-sticks-48ct

Popeye Candy Sticks 48ct

@javensbukan @wdormann we had FAGS (a white stick with a red tip), which became FADS (no red tip). Evolution below.

They were clearly meant to be cigarettes, "fags" was one of the most common words for cigarettes in australia at the time. As far as I recall they never had a packet that looked convincingly like a cigarette packet.

@coolandnormal @javensbukan @wdormann It would be surreal to revisit my childhood and see all the incredibly inappropriate things we didn't blink at then.