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Topic: Snack Vending Machine
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There are many types of snack vending machines.
Over the years of building and refining our vending operation we had hundreds of snack machines. They ranged from the table top mechanical 5-9-11 type to very large 6 shelf multi-price electronic machines.
Once we started tracking the sales for each row our profits soared. On many locations we would have rows filled with the same product if that's what that location was buying. Anytime we walked into a location and a product was sold out we would fill it back up and change a slow selling row to that same product.
We are still amazed by how many vending owners don't track their sales. They walk in and see that 3 rows are empty of product, but can't remember what the sold out product was so the put in whatever is closest in the back of their van. They simply fill the rows with the same product in all locations. They are losing money.
When getting into snack vending it's important to offer a selection, and then let the location tell you with their wallet what they want more of.
Buying overpriced snack vending machines can be fatal to the new vendor. I have seen unknowing new vendors pay more for a 9 selection mechanical snack machine than the price for a large refurbished 5 shelf electronic unit because they bought it from a slick vending seminar as part of a "vending package".
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An actual owner/operator of a full line, full time vending business for many years!
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I absolutely would have made buying one, maybe two, state-of-the-art machines my first priority. That's how I found you, not while looking for vending machine advice, but while looking for the machines themselves. Two or three days ago, I downloaded your book. By now, that money would have been spent, if I'd missed your page, and I'd have a shiny new machine on a truck from somewhere. Without a location (I thought I should have the equipment first) and without much hope of seeing the investment money returned in less than several years, if ever.
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Thank you. Your honesty and integrity are refreshing. I hope the book is doing well for you and your nephew. (A problem: People like me don't dare share your contact info, for the reasons the book itself outlines. I know a guy three hours away, though, that I might send to your website. Safely out of my sales zone. :) )
Randall Johnson
RJ's Treats ..(email on file)
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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)
Snack vending machine news;
Prisoner will spend extra 30 days in jail for sharing Little Debbie snack (Akron Beacon Journal)
MCARTHUR: A judge in southern Ohio has spared a man accused of sharing a Little Debbie snack cake with a fellow inmate prison time.Ohio man sentenced for sharing Little Debbie snack (WANE-TV Fort Wayne)
MCARTHUR, Ohio (AP) -- A southern Ohio man has dodged what could have been another nine months in jail for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake with a fellow inmate. The case involves 21-year-old TimothyOhio judge orders man to prison for sharing snack cake (WKYC Cleveland)
MCARTHUR, OH -- A judge in southern Ohio has spared a man accused of sharing a Little Debbie snack cake with a fellow inmate prison time. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.Snack-food violator gets off light (The Columbus Dispatch)
A southeastern Ohio man who faced prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake with another inmate in a community corrections program will serve 30 days in jail instead, a judge ruled yesterday.
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