I can understand how *some of* the vending machines get restocked - for one thing there are a lot of "invisible NPCs," like the ones who buy stuff from our vending machines, sell the traders their stock, etc. There are also drones now - maybe Traitor Joe's has bigger ones to stock vending machines, lol. Vending machines refilling in the places like the red fire station was weird of course. We were glad that vending machines still worked because Jailbreakers & Rockbusters but I miss the occasional functional work station - it could just make the story take a "twist" or something although I admit that I didn't use them much. As for old dollars we always have lvls of Better Barter and there's a reason that Dukes not dollars are currency where we live.