Analysis of the market status and development trend of my country's vending machine industry in 2020

From 2014 to 2018, the number of self-service vending machines in my country continued to grow. In 2019, my country's self-service vending industry continued to maintain rapid development, and the production scale and equipment ownership of self-service vending equipment continued to grow. From the perspective of the development process, my country's self-service vending machines started relatively late, so there is a large gap compared with developed countries. In the early stage of the development of self-service vending machines, the main development regions of the global self-service vending machines were the United States, Japan and Europe. As a relatively developed vending market in the world, Japan has 4.15 million vending machines in 2019, and more than 6,000 kinds of products are sold through vending machines, including large items such as beverages, cigarettes, magazines, medicines, and even jeans. . In terms of inventory, compared with developed countries such as Japan, the inventory of self-service vending machines in my country is still small. In Japan, there is an average of one vending machine for every 25 people, one for every 50 to 60 people in the United States, and one for every 50 to 120 people in Europe. The per capita number of self-service vending machines in my country is about 2,200 people/set. Therefore, the market has great potential for growth. The continuous expansion of the market size brought new growth opportunities from the epidemic. In 1994, China introduced the first vending machine. With the expansion of urbanization and the improvement of residents' consumption levels, the market scale has continued to expand. From 2014 to 2018, the sales scale of goods and services in the self-service vending machine industry maintained rapid growth. In 2017, the concept of'new retail' emerged. The Internet and traditional retail giants have deployed unmanned retail. The vending machine industry has gradually moved towards the era of intelligence. It has begun to regain attention and grow rapidly, but then the business volume is scattered, operation and maintenance are difficult and other problems Gradually, the industry has encountered bottlenecks. According to calculations, the market size of my country's self-service vending machine industry in 2019 is about 28.5 billion yuan. With the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in early 2020, on the one hand, the closure of the city and roads has brought problems such as supply chain breaks, sudden sales declines and blocked exports to vending machines. On the other hand, with the improvement of the epidemic situation and the development of contactless shopping habits, Citizens generally recognize and are accustomed to unattended lifestyles, such as self-service delivery, take-out and other necessities. Related manufacturers have also increased the deployment of self-service vending machines in schools, communities and factories, such as Harbin, Tianjin and other places. The'non-contact mask vending machine' was launched to help prevent and control the epidemic. Many unmanned retail companies have switched to selling self-service retail equipment-self-service vending machines, automatic vending cabinets, self-pickup counters, etc. In the past, some scenarios where the demand for automatic vending was not clear, the demand was affected by the epidemic and the demand showed a clear growth trend, such as Medical facilities, hotels and training institutions. Some small supermarkets and small stores are also willing to place some automatic retail cabinets. This has become a new direction for unmanned retail, and the vending machine industry has ushered in a new market growth point. Product structure is dominated by beverage vending machines. A large number of innovative businesses have emerged under the epidemic. At present, my country's common self-service vending machines are divided into four types: beverage vending machines, food vending machines, integrated vending machines, and automatic service machines. Among them, beverage self-service vending machines accounted for about 53% of the total number of self-service vending machines, followed by automatic service machines, accounting for 28%, and ticket vending machines again, accounting for 8%. With the further increase in the breadth and depth of self-service vending penetration, more business scenarios have been developed. In addition to the mainstream vending machines for comprehensive, beverage, food, and coffee, there are also cosmetic vending machines, medicine vending machines, and other vending machines on the market. Digital vending machines, ice cream vending machines, automatic noodle cookers, automatic rice vending machines, automatic soy milk machines, etc. Affected by the epidemic, the business development of the unmanned retail industry has become more diversified. Medical unmanned retail businesses such as mask vending machines and self-service drug vending machines have risen rapidly. In addition, innovative businesses such as community unmanned retail business, catering self-pickup business, and 3D self-service printing business have also emerged in large numbers. There are also some changes in the demand for models of vending machines. In addition to traditional beverage machines and food machines, operators have also begun to try new vending equipment such as smart door openers and drug vending machines.