DISTRIBUTORE DI PRODOTTI DI QUALSIASI TIPO

An all-purpose merchandiser for vending articles of merchandise, such as platters of food, desserts and the like, having a wide variety of shapes and sizes in which a generally circular merchandise carrier having a plurality of storage levels each of which is divided into a plurality of compartments having transparent walls and bases is mounted for movement around a vertical axis to carry the compartments past a cabinet door window and past a plurality of transparent access doors disposed for sliding movement in superposed relationship on the cabinet door. The dimensions of the windows and the doors and the transparency of compartment walls and bases afford a potential customer with a view of more than half the compartments on the carrier without moving the carrier so that he is able to determine the presence of articles therein. Preferably the windows and the doors are in planes extending slightly rearwardly from the midpoint of the cabinet door.