SPOKANE

Mrs.Wokals Mom & Dad live right up the road from here!!

Atleast we don't live in Spokane!! Look what Dave over at Empire has to deal with!! I don't think the Tri Cities are any better, are they Keith, Dave, Mike, Jeff???? I had to cancel my Seattle trip today just for the safety of things...... I hope all of you are out there being sensible. Peace and be SAFE !!!
As a side note....my buddy in Port Orchard lost all power and can't get off of his hill!! :-)

AUTOMAT YAKIMA FILLS OTHERWISE DEAD SPACE

Automat in Yakima Washington has come up with a revenue maker for themselves and their customer "Valley Mall" in Union Gap Washington. The mall is going thru several changes in upgrades trying to attract more and diverse exciting customers and businesses to their facility.The mall approached Jeff Hemp (Automat) about filling some store front vacancies until they could get them leased out to clients. Jeff and his design team came up with a Vending machine "bank" that was both innovative and attractive that would fill the otherwise un-sightly and empty space, all along providing undiscovered revenue for the Mall and Automat Vending. The end result was this "bank" of machines you see in the above picture. I thought this story was noteworthy because of all of our customers that have machines in various malls thru out the states that we service. This is a great idea for both the vendor and their customers, so if you have any of these locations with "empty" storefronts you might want to approach them with this idea!!

BRILLIANT job Jeff!!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!

Regards
Curt