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...
[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6npykxrP40"] In this series of blogs, we want to take a step back from the technology and talk about people and their interactions and engagement with unique vending machines. Stories ranging from cameras in vending machines to talking vending machines, we will talk about it all....
In a news story that came out a few weeks ago, KSL.com’s Brooke Walker reported on a vending machine at the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. This vending machine is special, among other special vending machines we have talked about in the...
Parevel Systems is a company founded on the idea of connecting everyday objects to the Internet. Parlevel built a simple, yet powerful VMS solution to connect vending machines to the Internet to provide real time sales data, financial reports, intelligent routing, breakdown alerts, and inventory controls, among...
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 been a part of the vending industry for the better part of this year now, gaining much of my knowledge from reading many articles and communicating with vendors, writers, and thought-leaders. I have a good friend who is a vending machine operator, as...
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...