A Salad Vending Machine Where AI Sets the Price Appears at JR Kyobashi Station—KOMPEITO's "Office de Yasai" Implements Waste Reduction Inside the Station

KOMPEITO Inc., which operates a stationed-vegetable service for offices,KOMPEITO Inc.has installed a salad vending machine that automatically adjusts selling prices with AI,"SALAD STAND,"at theJR Kyobashi Station(Miyakojima Ward, Osaka City) outside the west-exit ticket gate. The installation was onMay 13, 2026. It brings a system that reduces leftover products through pricing into a busy station concourse.

An AI camera reads foot traffic and expiration dates to change prices

The core of SALAD STAND lies in KOMPEITO's patenteddynamic pricing function. An AI camera mounted on the vending machine tallies the surrounding foot traffic and the number of people who stop, then combines that with data on each product's expiration date to analyze and calculate the optimal selling price. Products nearing their expiration are marked down to make them easier to sell out, while prices are held during high-demand time slots—such adjustments proceed unmanned.

In addition to salads, it handles cold-pressed juice, banana smoothies, freshly squeezed orange juice, and more. It extends the product supply cultivated through its own office service"OFFICE DE YASAI,"to a station—a place where an unspecified large number of people come and go.

Reducing "leftover = disposal" through pricing

Fresh salads and freshly squeezed juices have short expiration dates, and in vending-machine sales, leftovers tend to lead directly to disposal. By moving prices to match demand, KOMPEITO says it encourages consumption of the products and connects this to reducing food loss. With fixed-price vending machines, a person needs to judge the timing of markdowns, but the difference here is that AI takes over that judgment.

From 25,000 stationed-vegetable locations, health proposals expand into stations

KOMPEITO was founded in 2012 and has rolled out OFFICE DE YASAI to over 25,000 locations nationwide (as of April 2026). Until now its main battlefield has been the closed space of company offices, but expansion into stations can be called a move to increase channels for delivering vegetables to people on their way to work or out and about. It is an attempt to step into two challenges at once—resolving vegetable shortages and curbing food waste—with price-control technology.

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Source:PR TIMES (KOMPEITO Inc.)