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Unmanned store withered, can vending machines usher in spring
Writer： Zhongda vending machines Time：2020-03-07 12:02 Browse：℃
Recently, Jingdong Seven Fresh Supermarket (7FRESH) set up five smart sales counters at the west gate of BOBO Liberty City, Tongzhou, Beijing, allowing residents to purchase ingredients in a contactless environment. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of unmanned stores in various places, and capital has poured in. Numerous companies are racing to join them in order to take the lead in the wind and skyrocket, but the market is greeted with feathers. Now, as the unmanned store boom fades, can intelligent self-service vending machines usher in spring?
It is reported that these intelligent sales cabinets were independently developed by JD Logistics X Division, and the products in the cabinet are all fruits and vegetables supplied by Qixian Supermarket. After the consumer selects the target, he scans the QR code on the screen of the cabinet door with his mobile phone, and the cabinet door will open automatically. After the consumer removes the ingredients, the door is closed and the payment is made automatically. Qixian Supermarket will select the vegetables and fruits loved by the surrounding residents for sale according to the big data system. In addition, Qixian Supermarket also prioritizes the fresh, popular, seasonal, and cost-effective fresh products in the store, as well as the people's livelihood vegetables and fruits to adjust and supplement the types.
In response to the epidemic, Qixian Supermarket launched smart counters. In the long run, this may be the starting point for JD.com to enter another segment.
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With the continuous rise in labor costs and technological progress, unmanned sales have become a hot topic in the retail industry in recent years. But unfortunately, the wind failed to blow up the industry as expected, and the market finally ushered in a place of feathers, and various companies and capitals fell out.
"The domestic unmanned store technology is not enough, the daily losses are large, the maintenance costs are high, and the operation is difficult." An industry insider told the China Business Daily that relatively speaking, the self-service vending machine is more grounded and more suitable. Current market demand.
The self-service vending machine is not a new species, but with the advancement of technology, the self-service vending machine has continued to iterate, and its functions and commodity business scope have been greatly expanded. Just like the new smart counters launched by Qixian Supermarket, it can not only sell beverages, but also vegetables, fruits, and various daily necessities for residents. Its function is almost equivalent to a mini convenience store.
With the unmanned store boom waning, intelligent self-service vending machines have ushered in even greater opportunities. According to data from the Prospective Industry Research Institute, from the perspective of machine ownership, in recent years, China's self-service vending machine ownership has shown a rapid growth trend of more than 30%. In 2016, the number of self-service vending machines in China was about 190,000, a year-on-year increase of 58.3%. In 2017, the number of self-service vending machines in China reached 275,000. As of 2018, the number of self-service vending machines in China has reached 310,000. However, in terms of per capita possession, the per capita self-service vending machine in China is still relatively small. In 2017, China ’s per capita self-service vending machines had a capacity of 5,000 people. In Japan, where the self-service vending machines are most densely distributed, an average of 29 vending machines is owned by 29 people. .
From the perspective of market size, the statistics of the Prospective Industry Research Institute show that from 2013 to 2017, the scale of China's self-service vending machine market is growing rapidly. In 2013, China's self-service vending machine market size was only 1.9 billion yuan. By 2016, the size of the self-service vending machine market in China has grown rapidly to 7.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 74.42%. As of 2017, the scale of China's self-service vending machine market exceeded 10 billion yuan to 12 billion yuan, an increase of 60% year-on-year. In 2018, the scale of China's self-service vending machine market reached about 19 billion yuan, an increase of 58.5% year-on-year.
"The future of the self-service vending machine is indeed very good." Fan Yanru, secretary general of the Smart Business Special Committee of the China Business Federation, told a reporter from China Business Daily that China has a large market space for self-service vending machines, but compared with overseas markets such as Japan In the development of self-service vending machines in China, there are still many problems to be solved in terms of operating models and market policies. For example, the operating mechanism is not smooth, and property rents are high, which hinder the healthy development of the industry.
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