Vending Machines: Yesterday, Today, Always

Trade through vending machines is as old as the world. The first mechanical merchant, invented by the Greek mathematician Geron, sold holy water in the temple . The device was unpretentious, but the furor produced serious.

What do vending machines sell today?

Stylish, comfortable and fast modern vending machines sell a lot of necessary things. Most often it's coffee, tea, biscuits, culinary products, snacks, sweets, chewing gum, condoms, hygiene products and many more. Inventive Chinese even live crabs so sell, first they are cooled in special packages, then in a half-depressed state is placed in the apparatus. The price of pleasure is from 5 to 7 dollars. In Japan, there are whole galleries of shops without sellers, in many countries of the world in devices you can buy almost everything - from drugs to clothing.

Where it is better to place the apparatus?

Almost everywhere, coffee machines are popular, but in order for them to pay off quickly and begin to bring income to their owner, you must choose the right place for their placement. The most profitable points can be educational institutions, train stations, hospitals, shopping centers, offices of solid enterprises.

Near the coffee machines you can often see snacks, they are usually installed in places where there are not a number of outlets where you can have a snack: in educational institutions, which take place in the evening, in closed factories, working around the clock, in parks, on Exhibitions. The assortment of such devices is standard, it includes chips, soft drinks, chocolate bars, nuts, biscuits.

Vending machines selling soft drinks, juices are distributed everywhere, they are installed in all busy places - on the streets, in underground passages, on beaches, enterprises, stadiums.

Which vending machine to buy first?

Start your vending business better with mechanical machines that do not require electricity connection. They are cheaper ($ 1500- $ 3000), and even the most inexperienced person in trade matters can earn on them.

In second place on the popularity of automatic coffee devices, they are acceptable and do not require special maintenance. It would seem that all have long been accustomed to them, they have long become classic representatives of vending, but it is their popularity that helps to develop business, the demand for a cup of coffee is always there.

The third place belongs to the snack machine, its profitability is lower, but if you put it next to the coffee machine, it significantly increases the sales volume of the latter.

Very demanded devices that sell purified water, soft drinks, juices, cigarettes and ... technical liquids (windscreen washers, means for cleaning glasses from midges).

Vending business keeps a huge potential, it is convenient for the buyer and brings profit to the seller.