The automated self serve wine kiosks only recently installed in Pennsylvania than shut down in December are back up and running to the joy of wine drinkers statewide. These machines were the states solution to the want for wine sales in grocery stores, and were essentially a vending machine style stand where customers picked out and paid for their bottle of wine with a computer touch screen.
They were shut down in December just before Christmas mainly because of complaints that it was too hard and intimidating to use. All of the safe guards on the kiosks made them hard to use. A built in camera used to match the drivers license presented with the person purchasing was one of the few systems that didn’t need any improvement, only because it involved no work on the buyers behave to work. So after an almost complete reworking of the kiosks The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has now ironed out the issues and opened them back up for business. Just to make completely sure that all the issues are worked out and no customer leaves confused, an attendant staffs the kiosks to assist people. The assistants are just temporary though, until majority of people get comfortable working the machines. Pennsylvania residents can again fill their corvina wine tote while they shop for groceries.
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