For a shop to purchase just the Bike Fixation vending machine is around $3600 for the tubes and a general high security is about $5300 and that doesn't include shipping and my guess is, it doesn't include stock inside of the machine. For your big money shops or big money cities it would be awesome but smaller shops more than likely couldn't realistically drop that kind of coin on something that might take a while to get the return? It would be about 900 tubes or so to pay it off (figuring probably a $4 wholesale cost) and that is pre-shipping and stocking costs.
Plus you need people who can change their own flats and by the number of people who are willing to pay 10-15 dollars for a flat fix (pre-tube) vs number of people just buying tubes I doubt reaching 900 sales is going to be easy. I wish in this modern internet world people would learn how to do it, it is easy and only gets easier after you do it a few times (even a cav...nevermind)


They are cool and I wish lots of shops could get them but they are a big cost with little reward. Maybe if more people would get out and buy some nicer bikes instead of walking in and saying "what is your cheapest bike...oh...do you have anything cheaper...can you give me more discounts...sure you can, I am buying a (insert cheap bike here)...that lock is too heavy, what is your lightest cheapest lock..."

Ok enough ranting for the night, I gotta hit the sack. I kinda just wanted to check in after not being on for a little while due to being busy busy busy.