I have been monitoring Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn for a while now, and during my time viewing the social media landscape for the vending industry, I have noticed that vendors are not as active on social media as much as I think they should....
What can the Cloud Do for You? You might have heard this word floating around when talking about vending machine technology, vending management systems, or VMS. You also might have heard this word when tech savvy people talk about their iPhones or emails: “cloud.” What is...
Is Healthy Vending Realistic for Small Vendors? During my training as a vending route driver, I have been thinking about the movement towards healthy vending for customers and how, logistically, a vending machine operator could work with product that spoils much faster than traditional vending snacks. Shadowing my...
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After this week, I discovered my limit as a human being and vending route driver. I also discovered that my wrists will probably never be the same again. In the next few blogs, I will discuss some of the things I have learned about the...
I have begun my training at Chow Time Vending, and I have to say that this job is much harder than I initially anticipated. There have been a number of challenges I had to face during my initial training. From vending routes to machine servicing,...
Last Monday was Labor Day, a day for the celebration of the hard-working citizen of the United States (the rest of the world celebrates it much earlier). What does that mean for vendors, though? Did vending take a day off on Monday? No, it did not....
The vending experience is over for me for now, working as a route driver for my friend’s business, Chow Time Vending. I learned a lot of things in my short time with serving as a vending machine route driver, and I made some of the...
In this series of blogs, we will be featuring different vendors from all over the United States and abroad to showcase the similarities and differences between vending operations and share some insight from vendors to other vendors about the business and how we all can...