Which is better for unmanned convenience stores or vending machines?

At the end of 2016, the power giant Amazon released an amazing short video. The video fully demonstrated the entire process of Amazon's application of self-service code scanning shopping consumers entering the store, and also brought people unlimited vision and reverie for the future of the physical store.　　 According to many industry viewpoints, the main characteristic of unmanned convenience stores and vending machines is that they are 'unmannedAs for the media propaganda that there is no need to line up, it is really nonsense. After all, when customers come like a cloud, they have to line up, unless there are multiple settlement and collection ports like multiple vending machines. ATMs in banks and unmanned ticket machines at airports have long been proved by facts. This use of the power of technology to remove the 'toll station' for the consumer experience, making the user and the product a barrier-free approach, reducing labor costs, 24-hour operation, and can also reduce the cost of goods. But on the other hand, due to the entry of technology, this part of the cost reduction has become insignificant.　　 There are basically three technical forms for unmanned convenience stores, one is video recognition and biosensor, the second is RFID retail application, and the last is traditional QR code scanning. Just take the 'Binguo Box' that uses RFID technology as an example. The unit price of its goods is currently higher than that of ordinary convenience stores, which can be called a living case where the cost of technology is higher than the cost of labor.　　 Of course, with the evolution of technology and the increase of online stores, the final technical cost problem will inevitably be solved. And technologies such as drone delivery, unattended, big data transfer, and automatic loading of in-store robotic arms will surely become more mature and will eventually make the various costs attached to the product gradually disappear. In terms of experience cost, compared with the 2014 Amazon, JD, SF and other e-commerce or logistics platforms in various offline physical stores, Internet + one after another'test the waters', now the unmanned convenience store in 2018 can be regarded as quite the same year. The return after the'failed' attempt. Its core purpose is not to simply subvert the traditional retail market, but to crack the visible but intangible project of e-commerce 'big user experience bottleneck'. To a large extent, this has forced the traditional retail industry squeezed by e-commerce to shift from selling goods to taking care of convenience, recharge and other daily services. The super-sized'unmanned vending machine' pioneered by the instigator Amazon, the unmanned convenience store has become a beautiful new outlet, leading to such things as Deep Blue Technology, Bingo Box, Tao Coffee, and H5 Future Store. Unmanned convenience store. As for store rent and overall operation and maintenance expenses, the glamorous unmanned convenience store did not significantly reduce operating costs, and the payback speed also ranges from 8 to 24 months. This also allows all unmanned convenience stores to return to the same principle, that is, the enlarged version of the vending machine. However, vending machines often pay back their costs in 2 to 6 months because of their strong adaptability. Therefore, custom vending machines will be more suitable for business development and will eventually become a trend in the next 5 years.　　 This article is organized by a vending machine, this article does not represent the point of view of this site Previous post: Four business models of vending machines!