As people rhythm of life to speed up, at any time want to buy the necessary goods become more and more trouble. As a result, many entrepreneurs try to provide a more convenient shopping experience through vending machines or self-mentioned counters. Driven by demand and technology, China's vending machine industry has developed rapidly in recent years, but the market is still in the start-up period.
Self-service vending machine is called "no one mini-supermarket" itself with a lot of fashionable features: save labor costs, convenient high, light weight and small, full of possibilities of commodity selection. In addition, it is flexible distribution point, you can penetrate into the corridor, subway stations and other stores difficult to enter the space to meet the immediate convenience and randomized consumer demand, 24 hours business, with a unique channel value.
At present, the vending machine is no longer a Founder of the machine a few bottles of bottled drinks and snacks, now under the vending machine is evolving. Such as 40 seconds freshly squeezed a bowl of orange juice "five oranges", 30 seconds out of a cup of ice cream "ICE machine people", mini coffee shop "coffee zero it", are linked with the mobile industry to upgrade traditional industries, The development of the vending machine has evolved.
With the rapid development of high-tech, vending machines also usher in greater opportunities for development. A vending machine with a back office management system allows real-time monitoring of merchandise inventory and operating conditions. Users can also query the location and merchandise near the vending machine and purchase directly to achieve online diversion. Smart vending machine equipped with the display, in addition to better interaction with the user, but also can be used as advertising resources to profit. While access to mobile payment, greatly improving the user's purchase experience, and further reduce the vending machine operating costs.
However, this new retail model there are many problems can not be resolved. Such as its ability to accommodate the goods SKU too little, and the lower price of FMCG food and beverage-based, the user is basically a single purchase, so the customer unit price is low. In addition, the vending of the vending airport is expensive and the cost of the machine is high.
In China, the plight of the vending machine in Japan has been very common, about every 26 people have a. Among them, the conventional beverage vending machine only half of the other types of vending machines selling goods, including cigarettes, magazines, umbrellas, stockings, etc., from daily groceries to electronic products, almost all-encompassing. In addition, Japan's vending machines are not limited to indoor space, but also densely distributed in the outdoor streets.