A few must-do surveys before starting a vending machine business

Writer： Zhongda vending machines Time：2022-08-16 19:02 Browse：℃

With the continued impact of the epidemic, many people are facing unemployment or have lost their jobs, and being unemployed at an older age is a very troublesome thing. If you have a stable side income, the pressure will be less. The vending machine project is a small cost project that you can try, the investment is not big, and the earning power is not weak.

No matter what kind of business project, you have to do some research before you start, and vending machines are no exception. Today, I will talk to you about a few must-do surveys before starting a vending machine business.

Frist, determine what products you want to sell inside the vending machine
At this stage, vending machines can sell a lot of goods. Most vending machine entrepreneurs choose beverage snacks and erotic adult products, both of which are very wide audience groups of goods. Drinks are irresistible drinks for young groups, and adult products, needless to say, completely rigid demand. In addition, of course, vending machines can also sell other goods. For example, the owner of the convenience store in order to supplement the orders during the closing of the store at night, the purchase of vending machines put, then he can put the usual convenience goods into the vending machine. Beverage vending machine gross margin is relatively low, to make money mainly on the order volume. Of course, a single beverage vending machine order volume will not be high to where. Beverage vending machine volume is after all limited, a month to earn a thousand almost. Erotic adult products are high margin goods, the operation of good, erotic vending machine a table in January 1500 yuan to 2000 yuan can be done.


Second, according to the products sold to the right place to do market research first


1, Observe the flow of people [flow is king of the times, people are also resources]
Vending machine at the beginning of the store to want to go to which points to put, to put the points around the 100-meter range of human traffic analysis and comparison. Flow is king in the offline market, remote places do not consider. The more dense the flow of people, the greater the probability of vending machine orders. This is the common sense of vending machine store. Such points to choose some more, repeated observation eventually from three or four points to choose a most suitable points, if your investment is relatively large, you can also start to compare you think that the quality of the points are put into operation.

2, How many people are suitable for the product [choose to go to work or after work hours to statistics]
The flow of people is one of the prerequisites, with the flow of people to consider the point around the consumer scene is more. For example, if you do erotic vending machine is selected but the elderly gathering place, it is obviously not suitable. Even if the elderly have this aspect of demand, they will not go to the vending machine to buy goods. The main audience for vending machines is young people, while the audience for erotic vending machines should also add middle-aged people. The scope of this study does not need to be too wide, to the point as the center, the diameter of 100 meters to 500 meters within the circle area can be.

3, The customer crowd’s payment habits (cash or now popular card payment or even mobile payment, face payment)
Now is the era of cashless transactions, in underdeveloped third- and fourth-tier cities may paper money transactions still exist. Then pick the vending machine to choose to support the paper money to buy the machine. But if it is a better Internet speed, more developed economic level of the region, people generally have credit cards, that card payment should become one of the features that your vending machine must support, after all, card payment is convenient and fast, but also not easy to make mistakes.

Third, the channel of goods
Find more suppliers of goods you want to sell, ask them in detail about the price and services they can provide, multiple comparisons to get the relatively cheapest and at the same time can provide quality service suppliers, to put it bluntly is to choose the best value for money supplier. Or you can also choose a few more, if your scale is relatively large, choose a few more conducive to mutual bidding, but also to ensure that your sources of quality, timely service.