The pioneer of new retail - — Vending machines

The vending machine is a forerunner of unmanned retail, in the last century has appeared in the 70 s, in recent years, along with China's consumer upgrades, domestic vending machine industry keep average annual compound growth of 25%. The vending machine is developing rapidly due to offline entity retail high rent and labor costs. Below we comb through summarizing the development of China's vending machine industry context, profit model, and the innovation of new formats, some enlightenment to no one want to retail investors. The starting point for the vending machine channels can be traced back to 1994 years, suntory, a Japanese company took the lead to the vending machines were introduced into China. Two years later, the two big cola companies are also involved in the vending machine channel construction, introduced hundreds of equipment to China. That time, the vending machine only supports drinks sold at low temperature. Around 2000, vending machine channels into the fumble period and market. The machine failure rate decreased significantly, the vending machine manufacturers began to explore new way of payment. After more than ten years of exploration imitation, by 2013, the channels of the vending machine presented explosive development. Vending machine of domestic independent research and development, innovation system has been gradually formed. In 2013, the vending machine mobile payment technology is introduced. In 2015, the vending machine channels to open the Internet + era. Currently responsible for hardware development, manufacturing, production of domestic manufacturers have more than 30, and within the top 10 manufacturers and vendors have pulled open behind a very large distance, from the aspects of production, research and development ability, technology level, reflect. And traditional individual operators in the size of the domestic more than 300, with the rise of the Internet, a number of genes have Internet operators, they through the use of the Internet technology, operation mode on the vending machine intelligent management. To develop the new formats. Vending machines in Japan, drink machines account for only half, other types of vending machine sells the goods including the cigarette, fruit, magazine, an umbrella, lunch, etc. , from daily necessities to electronic products, almost covers all. Domestic operators, from Japan vending machine forms the diversification of the layout, on the basis of drink machines derived mini KTV, automatic selling new formats such as wine, self-help ice cream machine.