Bulk Vending Disadvantages for Vending Operators

No doubt vending is an amazing business opportunity. There is no limit to what you can earn with expansion of your vending business. Benefits like negligible management required, no-manpower, automatic sales generation and option of having 24/7 operations make the business even more desirable.

When compact vending is leading the vending business share, bulk vending is lagging a little behind. Little acceptance for bulk vending as preferred business option is due to facts like:-

1. Account Attrition – Bulk vending attracts substantial account attrition.

2. Product spoilage – As products are purchased in bulk and large numbers of products are stocked in a single machine, chances of product spoilage are high. This becomes a direct loss for operator.

3. Poor product choice – Choice for products gets limited with Bulk vending as a result operators have to resort to inferior quality products. As most of the bulk vending products are unpacked, chances of using inferior quality products gets high. This ultimately results in business loss.

4. Health consciousness – Bulk vending is mostly related to candy vending. With growing health consciousness for consumers, bulk vending profitability ratio is squeezing down further.

5. Expensive products – Products manufactured by quality suppliers are bit expensive and cannot compete with prices of cheap products. High sale price is an automatic hindrance in boosting up sales volume.

6. Not much option in terms of locations – There is a serious location issue with bulk vending machines. They cannot be placed at any location. They can work well at amusement parks etc but at locations like offices they are not so fruitful.

On the contrary, compact vending machines capable of vending multiple products at the same time are a hit among operators as well as customers. Compact vending machines give an option to operators to stock variety of quality products in the same machine. They can be placed at almost all locations. Customers too have an option to choose from multiple products and hence they generate better business.

Planet Antares Inc manufactures remarkable compact vending machines capable of vending multiple products. In-house R&D has equipped Planet Antares vending machines with state-of-the-art gadgets designed to enhance customer’s experience and ease of operation.