COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Kroger store and gasoline station in Columbus will offer consumers an automated convenience store starting next week, reports WCMH-TV. The Shop24 machine, by Service America Group, provides more than 150 products to consumers and accepts credit cards, coins and cash.

Consumers can purchase everything from drinks to pain relievers at the push of a button.

“Product falls into a soft basket. Basket goes into a delivery bin, drops it in and it comes out the front,” Tom Riske, an installer, told the television station.

Kroger officials have not released plans on any future locations, and the grocery store hopes to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 25.

In the June 2007 issue of NACS Magazine, the Ideas 2 Go section features the first Shop24 machine in the United States, which is located on the campus of Morrisville College in New York. The machine stocks about 200 SKUs from soft drinks to sandwiches and digital music download cards.