Comprehensive vending machines don’t just sell drinks! Anything can be sold!

When many people think of vending machines, they think of beverage vending machines and adult products. As physical online retail encounters bottlenecks, more and more people are tapping new channels. Vending machines have become popular again with mobile payment, selling books, selling jewelry, selling clothes, selling medical records, selling blind boxes, selling lunch, and selling red wine. There are only products that you can't think of without a vending machine. Can provide customized development functions, which can be applied to various products. In addition to product-level differences, the market share and growth rate of these four retail formats are also different: the market share of unmanned shelves is not high, the growth rate is slow, some food is tasteless, and there is no effective risk control solution. , Has been eliminated, and its alternatives, unmanned vending cabinets, smart vending cabinets, are growing rapidly; there are not many unmanned convenience stores, but there are always companies that want to test new retail, so the prospects are good; the traditional retail store market is large but Stable and slow growth; only smart vending machines, which have a good market share and maintain rapid growth, are undoubtedly a star product worth investing in at this stage. Intelligent vending machine is a new form of vending machine, and many people are not unfamiliar with it. Its predecessor is a mechanical traditional vending machine, which emerged in the United States of the last century and became popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, there are more than 5 million automatic vending machines in the United States, with an average of 50 people owning one; Japan also has nearly 5 million, with an average of 26 people owning one; China started late in this regard, and it was first introduced in 1994. Vending machines, but due to different payment habits and restrictions on currency denominations, coin-type traditional vending machines have been tepid in the Chinese market. It was not until the popularization of mobile payments that the domestic vending machine industry ushered in a stage of rapid development. . In recent years, under the influence of new retail, domestic vending machines have also begun to use technology to reduce costs and increase efficiency. The price of traditional mechanical vending machines is generally between 20,000 and 50,000 yuan. Now that the expansion of new technology and the increase in production efficiency have reduced the price of the machine a lot, this provides a good way for the popularization of vending machines. conditions of. Adult product machines, vending machines, automatic coffee machines, automatic ice cream machines, automatic lunch machines, various new forms of intelligent vending machines are quickly entering shopping malls, convenience stores, communities, stations, airports and other public areas. It is certain that smart vending machines will also usher in explosive growth in China, but the question is: what kind of development model will it be? Japanese vending machines: the inevitable 'beverage machine' fate. In the venture capital circle, investors who are concerned about consumption upgrades have a consensus: now China is very much like the developed countries in the 1970s and 1980s. People’s material living standards have been continuously improved and they have begun to pay attention. Quality and spiritual consumption, this period has the most opportunity to give birth to great brands, such as the birth of Nike, Apple, and Starbucks in the 1970s in the United States, and Daiso and FamilyMart in the 1970s in Japan. But the only objection is, will China be more like the United States in the 1970s or Japan in the 1970s? Or is it that no one is like we are going to take our own unique path? The benevolent sees the benevolent and the wise sees the wisdom on this issue, but for vending machine companies, the reason why it is necessary to predict the future is because different models may mean different endings. In the book 'A Hundred Years of LifeManpower will be concentrated in the two ends of the industry: one end is the service industry, and the other end is the original industry (technology, culture). The retail industry is no exception. The most likely pattern in the future is: unmanned retail occupies a standardized shopping scene, and some retail provides warm services. In the sparsely populated western part of the United States, people are used to driving to large supermarkets in the suburbs to shop. The significance of the existence of vending machines is to make up for the shortage of convenience stores, so the product variety in the cabinet should be abundant. In Japan, where the population is very dense, the density of convenience stores is already very high, and vending machines have to find a different location from convenience stores, so a special phenomenon has appeared: most of the vending machines in Japan are beverage machines.