Six advantages of unmanned vending machines

Six advantages of unmanned vending machines

With the increasingly fierce competition in the new retail market, vending machines have been silent in China for nearly 20 years, suddenly resembling a waking lion, extremely fierce, and rising rapidly in just a few years, from the tradition that no one cares about. Vending machines, to intelligent vending machines, have appeared in various public places. People only need to scan the QR code to pay or swipe their face to pay for all kinds of goods. At this moment, vending machines are already waiting for opportunities to slowly replace physical stores and become a ubiquitous part of people's lives. Then, some friends will ask, what are the advantages of vending machines compared with physical stores?

Vending machines have six advantages:

1. First of all, the price of a vending machine is around 10,000 to 50,000, with low capital investment and relatively low threshold. In addition, the area of the vending machine only needs 1-2 square meters to be placed, and there is no need for specialized shops. For example, free spaces in parks, school dormitories, scenic spots, hotel apartments, transportation hubs, industrial parks, office buildings, and service halls can be used;

2. Vending machines are not just the food and beverage machines we have seen. There may be dozens of types of vending machines, such as self-service orange juice machines, adult products unmanned vending machines, mini self-service KTV singing bars, shared charging treasures, etc. All are the performance of various formats of vending machines;

3. With the increase of China's aging degree, labor and rent are becoming more and more expensive, and with the development of 5G, mobile payment technology is becoming more and more mature, and the fields of automatic, shared, and automatic vending will enter the fast track of development;

4. Low investment and low risk. For the simplest example, opening a physical store will cause huge losses if the business is not good, and the vending machine only needs to be changed to a better location;

5. A vending machine is equivalent to a small convenience store. The difference between it and a convenience store is that it does not require manual sales and is open 24 hours a day. Regardless of whether it is windy or rainy, as long as there is electricity, the vending machine is Can be open all the time, all year round;

Sixth, the vending machine has a large screen, which can put advertisements, in addition to the fuselage, it can also do very good advertising effects. Compared with traditional physical retail stores, this not only reduces the cost of media advertising, but also cooperates with other businesses to let them play advertisements on vending machines and increase advertising revenue. This is a very important part of the profit of vending machines. Accounted for.

In the future development, it is inevitable that vending machines will replace physical stores, and it is also the need of the times. Looking through the annals of history, it is not difficult to find a rigid rule: when new things appear, old things will naturally be eliminated in this society.