Company culture, or the way a company behaves, manages, and communicates with their employees and customers, is a big topic of discussion for people looking for jobs they can enjoy and companies looking for excellent people to hire. In this series of blogs, I will feature...
Playing the Vending Repair Guessing Game Alan is a vending machine owner with over 300 machines in two cities. He has a number of different routes that he takes each week to service those machines. Almost every time he goes out to service his machines, there is...
The Importance of Monitoring Your Vending Machine Products A vendor’s inventory is the core of their business. Every snack, drink, DVD, toy, etc. are all potential revenue or inventory loss. Maintaining vending machine products efficiently and knowing when to purchase and how much are very difficult. Also,...
Happy Customers = Happy Vending Machine Sales There are many things that make the vending industry unique from other industries, and when it comes to customers, vending is the most unique that I have ever encountered. When I worked for the retail industry, for example, there...
Many of us go online to look up information about a number of things. Want to read about who was the 12th president of the United States? Wikipedia has the answer. Looking for a great VMS/telemetry combo that’s effective and affordable? Parlevel Systems is a...
Competition in the Vending Machine Industry -- Healthy or Unhealthy? I want to call attention to a blog I recently read on www.vendingmarketwatch.com. In the blog post, written by Alfonso Flores, he argues that vendors, for the most part, like each other enough not to cut...
How Can NFC Help You? In our blog, we have discussed several topics about innovative technology in vending like Parlevel Systems' VMS. However, a lot of the things we have discussed are already available or used for promotional purposes. There is a new technology on the horizon that...
There are a lot of crazy vending machines out there. In the past, we have talked about non-traditional vending, healthy vending, talking vending machines, and vending machines that bring people from different cultures together. For the most part, these are not machines customers can experience everywhere,...
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...