What is the current development status and prospects of vending machines in the world?
Self-service vending machines are not new, but when the content sold changes from ordinary bottled beverages to freshly squeezed juices, power banks, or entertainment content (mini KTV), the entire industry becomes hot. Internet players and capital markets are staring at this market. The online business empire has taken shape, and most of the services and experiences still have to fall offline. Internet players have created online empires, and they also have the confidence and ambition to transform offline. They woo offline merchants, transform food delivery, express delivery and retail, and also hope to cooperate with self-service vending machines to customize a new retail model.
Ali pays attention to technology empowerment, so that the operation of physical retail enterprises can complete the optimization of cost and efficiency under the empowerment of technology. Tencent’s "eight tactics" are used to improve eight details: store location, marketing reach, face recognition, traffic analysis, electronic price tag, cost reduction, self-weight sensing, self-service cashier; Carrefour, Yonghui Supermarkets and other brands have integrated eight kinds of resources from Tencent to promote the continuous development of the new retail industry. In this context, two trends have occurred in the new retail industry:
First, the Internet giants promote the concentration of physical retail: my country's physical retail is fragmented, and through the power of Internet giants' capital + technology, the market concentration continues to increase;
Second, changes in demand promote the emergence of market segments: the demand for consumption upgrades will continue to drive the emergence of more vertical segments, and retail formats will continue to diversify.