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Monday, January 18, 2010

Benefits of Vending Machines

The main aim of introducing vending machines is to offer convenience and instant services to customers. Both these objectives are achieved with vending machines. With increasing demand for vending machines, more and more varieties of machines are being introduced in to the market.

Operators have an option to choose from two popular versions of vending machines available. In the first type, you need to deposit a coin, select a product and collect the released product at the bottom of the machine. The other type is commonly seen by most of us in our day to day lives. In this type, money is deposited in the machine and the door gets unlocked for you to collect the product. This machine is mostly used for vending news paper. But this model is more prone to theft.

Vending machines offer several advantages not only to its operators but also to its customers in general. Some of them are mentioned below:

Advantages to customers:

• Quick and convenient: These machines save a lot of time hence convenient to use. Once money is deposited and product is selected, it hardly takes few minutes for dispensing the product.

• Small areas: These machines can be placed in those areas where it is not possible to run a full time cafeteria.

• Quality: Even branded products can be vended using these machines. So quality is no more a concern.

• Service: The services of vending machines from reputed companies like Planet Antares are available 24/7 round the clock without any interruption.

• Variety: Vending is no more restricted to few limited products. Customers can purchase almost anything from these machines.

Advantages to operators:

• Cost: The cost of starting a vending business is low when compared to any other businesses. This business does not require huge floor area, manpower and maintenance costs are also very low.

• Cash: This is a complete cash business hence there is scope of bad debts and collection issues.

• Flexibility: This business offers flexibility in terms of working hours. You can take up this business either in a full time or part time basis while still continuing with your routine job.

All these benefits are luring more and more operators towards this business.

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