Self-service vending machines have become the new vane of unmanned retail

Unmanned retail refers to the form of retail in which consumers choose goods and pay for the checkout by themselves in the absence of no one or few people, and complete shopping activities. There are three main manifestations of unmanned retail: unmanned convenience stores, office shelves, and self-service vending machines. So, the same is unmanned retail, why is the slowest development of self-service vending machines more popular in the market? Self-service vending machines are basically growing at a rate of about 50% every year. The market share is the largest in unmanned retail, and all products are in a sealed space, which is less affected by the outside world and profit is controllable. However, unmanned convenience stores and open shelves are more affected by the outside world, especially open shelves. The new generation of smart shelves has not yet been popularized, and the safety performance of the products on the current development shelves is the lowest. It is possible to deliberately not pay or forget to pay, so the damage will be relatively large and the profit will be uncontrollable. Compared with unmanned convenience stores, the technology of self-service vending machines has been mature. Due to the original large market share, in recent years, it has been growing at an average annual growth rate of 40-50%, and there is more room for growth. According to APVA data from the Asia-Pacific Self-service Vending Association, by 2022, the total number of vending machines in the country will be close to 1.5 million, with annual sales of 44 billion. The domestic market is at an early stage of development, and the market has great room for future development. On the other hand, the progress of mobile payment has brought great convenience to the offline retail industry, including the vending machine industry. Users only need a mobile phone to buy the goods of the vending machine at any time, which reduces the threshold for the use of self-service vending machines. At the same time, it eliminates the process of counting and trading currency, provides users with a more convenient shopping experience, and improves the overall industry Operational efficiency. In recent years, the development of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and automated warehousing technology has enabled every node in the storage, delivery, placement, and sale of goods from the factory to be recorded in the system, and enterprises can more reasonably control the overall entry Sales and deposit relationship. On the basis of digitization, the user's order data can be used to calculate the size of the regional inventory of the delivery equipment, the consumption cycle of each product, and the number of equipment to be launched, and finally achieve a precise marketing strategy. And can use these data to be accurate to the number of replenishment orders, so as to solve the problem of inventory backlog and capital turnover. In terms of the operating cost of self-service vending machines, the use of mobile payment systems can completely replace paper and coin systems, which perfectly solves the drawbacks of machines not accepting money, swallowing coins, and not making change. Compared with other merchandise vending machines that require the purchase cost, the self-service vending machine of 'Chancesmart Shell' only needs to purchase the image copyright, once purchased, it can be used indefinitely, and the other supply costs are only in printing inkjet and mass-produced semi-finished mobile phones shell. There are no after-sales problems such as expired goods, out of stock, and price increases. Each vending machine can become a miniature 'chain storeWith the intensified entry of FMCG brands and the development of entrepreneurial operators, the number of self-service vending machines will increase substantially. Compared with Japan, where there is one self-service vending machine for every 23 people, there are about 10,000 people in a city like Beijing, not to mention second-tier cities. Therefore, the self-service vending machine market is almost blank. With the development of the market demand, it is only a matter of time before the self-service vending machine market ushered in an explosion.