TOOLS OF THE TRADE: CASHLESS VENDING SYSTEMS

摘要

Overall, sales of cold beverages through full-line vending machines were down 1.6 percent, according to Chis Haack, senior research analyst for Mintel, a Chicago-based market research firm. The reason being, he explains, is the shift in the economy. The US$15 billion full-line vending industry (beverage sales account for nearly 44 percent of total full-line vending machine sales) has faced challenges due to the decline in manufacturing employment-manufacturing locations account for the largest share of vending machine dollar sales, comprising 34 percent of sales in 2006. "So there is that shift going on and now vendors are having to relocate machines to new areas and try different things," says Haack.