Silly. A few feet away you can buy beer from the shelf but you have to use this stupid contraption to get wine outside a State Store or specially licensed wine store.
After nine swipes of a rejected card, five huffs into the Breathalyzer that didn't register and 20 minutes of a life too short to wait for chardonnay, Matt Dee pronounced the state's new wine vending machines cutting edge in every respect save one:
It wouldn't sell him a bottle of wine.
"This is new technology. We all know how new technology works -- it's terrible at first," said Mr. Dee, a 23-year-old nurse at UPMC Mercy. He was standing at the front of the Giant Eagle on Centre Avenue. And standing. And standing.
He tried his debit card, and the key pad wouldn't pop up.
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