Well-known convenience stores in Japan introduce vending machines

According to 'Nihon Keizai ShimbunIn the near future, five such machines will be placed in Tokyo for trial operation. This week, they will be piloted at the office and commercial building of Dongjiang to put into automatic vending convenience stores. It is expected to increase to 100 by the end of February 2018. 2019 More than 500 units will be reached at the end of February of the year. It is understood that different from simple vending machines, two 7-11 vending machines are arranged side by side with a width of about 2 meters and a height of 1.8 meters. The interior will be divided into 4 temperature levels to maintain the freshness of the goods. It sells about 75 products including rice balls, sandwiches, retail and beverages. The vending machine will automatically recognize the shelf life of rice balls and sandwiches, and automatically stop selling after expiration, but only for cash settlement. The vending machine will be managed and operated by a nearby 7-11 convenience store. In principle, the clerk will replenish the goods once a day and collect cash at the same time. Sevenu0026i Holdings spokesperson Toda Yuki said: “We will provide products of the same quality as stores on vending machines.” There are nearly 60,000 convenience stores across Japan. The ultra-high density of convenience stores has caused the market to become saturated. The rise in consumption and the increase in employment costs have made the development of Japanese convenience stores more and more difficult, so unmanned sales are gradually being favored. Therefore, not only 7-11, Japanese Family Mart and Lawson have also launched unmanned vending machines or automatic convenience stores. In Japan, Family Mart has 2,100 'Vending Machine Convenience Stores' and 1,700 unmanned sales 'Office Family Mart' in the office area. Lawson also has approximately 110 'Vending Machine Convenience Stores' in Japan. In China, the vending machine market is still in the initial stage of development, but the electronic payment function and operating system of the vending machine are relatively well integrated with offline user consumption patterns. This has laid a solid foundation for the development and growth of vending machines in China. According to Guangdong Ten Based on the analysis of industry development data for several years, the products sold by domestic vending machines are still concentrated, mostly beverages and packaged snacks. In the future, the diversification of vending machine sales categories will be the general trend, and the scope of use of vending machines will continue. expand. The above information is provided by the automatic vegetable vending machine. Please mark the reprint. Previous post: Three major complaints about vending opportunities are worth the attention of operators