Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Easy Way to Raise Profits in Vending

In today’s competitive world, vending machine operators must find ways to increase market share. In the vending industry, you can either add more locations and vending machines or you can increase sales at current locations. Increasing sales at the current location is the easiest and cheapest way for Antares vending machine operators to raise their profits.

Improving sales at current locations incurs minimal costs, so any additional revenue is pure profit. For your Antares vending business you would not need to purchase new equipment, or hire new personnel, or buy a new vehicle. All this would be unnecessary. The only cost would be the price of the new vending machine items sold and the commissions paid to proprietors and drivers.

The effective way to increase your sales for your Antares vending machine is product selection. You need to be selective about the products that you choose to sell from your vending machine. Here are some tips on how you can do that.

1. Follow real world trends. By following these trends you will be responding to consumer choices, there by increasing sales and minimizing warehouse space because they have limited space.

2. Think like a consumer. Don’t categorize items according to size and price; instead items should be defined by texture and taste. This will elucidate product variety and help in product selection

3. Brand new products. New products in your Antares vending machines will keep the customers interested. Once the appeal of the new product wears off, the operator has to decide whether the product deserves a place the shelf space.

4. Don’t be a scrooge. Purchase products that are on demand instead of purchasing them because of their price. Consumers today are willing to pay a high price for quality products.

5. Ride the ad wave. Align products with what suppliers are advertising. This way as an Antares vending operator you will benefit from the work of others.

To improve profits in your Antares vending business, just increase sales where you can. This is the easiest way.

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