{"id":5041,"date":"2019-04-28T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T10:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2019-04-28T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T10:33:06","slug":"forget-coke-and-candy-aud-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/forget-coke-and-candy-aud-vending-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget coke and candy, AUD vending machines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vending machines at the American University in Dubai can get you a diamond necklace or the latest technology in laptops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some AUD students have the reputation of coming from rather wealthy families and the parking lot there has some of the world&#8217;s most expensive cars. So it was probably not a big surprise when vending machines were installed to sell Swarovski jewellery &#8212; and that is probably not the case in other universities in the U.A.E.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vending machines change products every semester, and are now offering electronics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe offered this machine to the American university in Dubai last December and we sold a few products,&#8221; Wadih Karam, the manager of Gatepulse, which operates the machines, told the MBRSC post. &#8220;We change the brand every semester but starting from next semester we are going to change it every month, this helps the students buy new products at a lower price.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Roushdy, an interior design student, said \u201cmy laptop stopped working and I needed a new one. So, I directly went and purchased a brand new laptop at a lower price. This machine is very helpful and efficient to the people who live on camps and don&#8217;t have time to go to the mall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vending machines at the American University in Dubai can get you a diamond necklace or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}