To provide a vending machine that does not vend dairy beverages which have undergone milk separation during storage.
The vending machine 1 in which an article storage mechanism 10 for storing a plurality of beverage articles D in a stack has an article dispensation mechanism 110 including a solenoid energized such that the lowest beverage article is supported from below when there is no vending instruction and that a lower pedal 111b is separated from the lowest beverage article when there is a vending instruction includes a vibration control device for, when there is no vending instruction, applying a second alternating voltage lower than a first alternating voltage required to separate the lower pedal from the lowest beverage article to the solenoid for a predetermined time such that a vibration for preventing component separation in a plurality of beverage articles is transmitted to the lowest beverage article through the lower pedal.
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