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Topic: Healthy Vending Machines
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Healthy Vending Machines? While filling our vending machines I would occasionally get asked by a customer at a location to include some healthier snacks. We would use granola bars, sesame snaps, and unsalted peanuts and even tried protein bars.
Unfortunately, healthier snacks cost more than traditional bars and chips and required we put a premium price on them. We always let the locations customers decide what went in our machines and let them vote with their wallet. Although locations would ask for healthier snacks we inevitably sold a greater percentage of traditional chips and bars. Usually to the point where we would only have 1-2 healthy items in a 48 selection snack machine. And those items were still the poorest seller. We were in the vending business to make money and therefore stocked products that sold.
Healthy Vending Machines?
I'm sure we'll see more healthy food selections in vending machines when the population starts to choose them over chocolate and chips as an impulse buy.
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Make sure that a location is aware you want to be their vending solution. We once walked into a snack/pop location we had serviced for years only to find a full size coffee machine right beside our equipment. When we asked why they didn't ask us to put a full size coffee machine in, they said, "Oh!, we didn't know you do coffee too!". (A costly mistake for us)
Healthy vending news;
CANADA: YoNaturals debuts "healthy" vending (Just Food)
YoNaturals, the California-based company specialising in healthy alternatives to junk food vending machines, has launched its first Canadian branch in Edmonton.YoNaturals Makes Its First Move Into Canada with Natural and Organic Food Vending Machines (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----YoNaturals Inc., a Solana Beach, Ca., company that markets a healthy alternative to junk food vending machines, has launched its first Canadian branch in Edmonton.School food, drinks under review Expect healthy snacks in vending machines next September (The Simcoe Reformer)
A committee of students, principals, and health unit staff are looking at the food and drink teens are allowed to buy in area high schools. The group has drawn up a request for proposals for private companies to supply vending machines in public schools across Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk.Cheaper and healthier snacks: Stansfield, Gundersen Lutheran team up to offer more nutritious options at junk food’s ... (La Crosse Tribune)
Stansfield Vending and Gundersen Lutheran are collaborating on a venture that could change what’s found inside vending machines.
Healthy Vending Machines