What is a Par Level Approach? Merchandising is the idea of showcasing product to stimulate customers into making a purchase. For the vending industry, this means to keep machines stocked with the optimal amounts, or a par level, of products. However, how much of one product...
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...
The Catastrophic Implications of Vending Machine Theft Vending Machine Theft. It’s a real problem in vending. Vending machines are considered by insurance companies as liabilities because they are like little “safes” all over town. They hold a lot of money and product, and it makes it easy...
[vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE"] 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 innovative vending machines. Stories ranging from cameras in vending machines to talking vending machines, we will talk about it...
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,...
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...