Is This the Death of Traditional Vending?! ($117 Startup)

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1. Learn how to start your own vending business (FREE masterclass) – https://links.upflip.com/The-vending-bootcamp-masterclass-yt

   1. Yaeh 8K is too much

   2. @@chefdoedel The mini markets with the cameras and Wi-Fi hook ups are in the thousands not the basic vending machines.

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   5. i ran a vending business for 10 years and ultimately left because of the COST to really scale I mean into the millions per month not 50-100k and switched to ATMS (Higher output per location vs. time invested) and selling drinks/snacks online only (Ability to sell worldwide not just in vending locations). Also as a small operator you are at the mercy of the large Vending Management companies that have THOUSANDS of locations. For this target market for a micro market you need to be in LARGE HIGH TRAFFIC locations the same ones the Vending Management Companies target and they can wipe you out just by signing a deal with corporate, sending them a large check and taking all the locations nationwide and giving you the boot. You cannot match them as a small operator. The best way to get in the vending business is to go get the Free coca-cola machines and buy your product from coke and hit up small blue collar businesses such as warehouses etc with no A/C and 50 employees. Stick to drink machines only unless a snack is requested. (less of a headache) They will do just as good or better than the white collar locations and you can actually get into those easier and not much competition. You can scale fast because you cut out the cost of the equipment and if you want to quit just call coke and tell them to go pick up the machines and walk away. All you need to start is to buy $50 of product and a $2 machine lock and go find a location.

2. 1. What happens when people block the cameras to take more items?
   2. What’s a good profit sharing evaluation ?
   3. Where are you getting your inventory?
   4. Can a customer take an item and put it back right away if they change their mind?

   1. I think it has sensors too. Just like those Amazon store with no attendant. When an item pass the door it counts as sold.

   2. We have them at my office job in City of Hope. Impossible to steal

   3. If a customer “cabbages” their mind, they have more problems than returning an item ;D (Sorry. I Couldn’t resist. Good questions)

   4. The shelves measure weight.

   5. @@MakeTheWorldBetterMate 😂oops

3. Love how they are talking about putting the food that causes heart disease in the lobby for people visiting the cardiologist.

   1. Tells you what kind of cardiologist is in the office. If the cardiologist doesn’t have a say then that’s not something I would allow in my office.

   2. You can load it with anything you want. Load it with fresh fruit. Someone will still buy it. It’s about convenience, not about the individual products. If I’m in a hospital waiting room with my kids and the vending machine has apples or chips, I’d probably pick the apples for my kids.

   3. That is not what causes heart disease unless you are hooked on fast food thus prefer to live in denial.

   4. America baby. Entire culture , it’s been incorporated into our dna

   5. returning customers / recurring revenue 😉

4. who owns the software? that’s the real shovel seller

   1. Facts

   2. Could be Cantaloupe. Card reader is $300 plus monthly fees starting at $9.95 per month plus 9.95% of each sale! Analytics are tiered much higher, with more hardware to buy.

   3. @@chalooter wtf square is significantly cheaper than that and I thought they were a bit pricey.

   4. They have open source alternatives that you can fork into your own, that’s what I did.

   5. @Swaygooy  for the analytics, I presume?

5. If you place a vending machine in an office or residential building, you’re counting on steady monthly revenue. That means you need regular customers who keep coming back to waste their money.
   I use these kinds of machines once in a blue moon, sometimes with years between visits.

   So, who’s really making the money? The vending machines themselves, or the people running courses, teaching future competitors how to build a “successful vending business”?
   To me, it makes more sense to keep quiet and quietly expand my own vending empire.

   1. who makes money ? the land owner, who charges you a rent, the same rent regardless of how many packets of chips you sold in the month. the marketing guy on the Internet, who sells you trainings about how to get rich effortlessly with a vending machine. the machine owner owns bills, debts, and maintenance costs.

   2. @@johnsmith-ro2tw yep the course seller makes absolutely the same income whether his advice helps you make money or not. you really don’t need the course lol I bet he is the same guy or is getting some money for the sale of the machines too.

   3. Vending machines have been viable business for decades. The tech and user experience is changing with the times.

   4. While your not wrong on courses culture. You’re not thinking from a sales point of view.

      Sure YOU may only buy every now and then just like me and everyone else, but that’s why Foot Traffic is so important if your getting a chance at 100s – 1000s of people randomly buying snacks every now and then , then it becomes consistent.
      No different than media like music & TV and movies. Most people only consume the media once, but it’s the fact that millions of people consume it at different times which makes it scale and consistent.

   5. It’s still low overhead. Good entrepreneurs could probably find easy mild success. And some not so much. Shelf life of those products is eternity…

6. This works in a high trust community. Low-trust communities, as seen in the comments, immediately start discussing how they can scam the business.

   1. What communities would that be sir? I’m dying to know.

   2. @@abrahamlincoln8913communities that have statistically high crime obviously….. stop reaching

   3. @@abrahamlincoln8913black

   4. @@abrahamlincoln8913 You already know.

   5. That’s true of any and every business everywhere. Some businesses are just less secure

7. “we dont even use the word vending”

   Stands in front of his machine with s sign that says”vending machine instructions”

   1. Smh 🤦🏽

   2. The magic of bending words

      Grand wizard 🧙

   3. @@robertruschak7083 vending words

   4. He doesn’t, but others do, and you have to speak people in ways they would understand lol.

   5. they are snake oil salesmen. It’s pure B.S.

8. The guy is very conservative. I like that. I run a vending machine business myself in Germany, and I think it’s good that he’s so down-to-earth and only plans $1,000 per machine. It’s exactly the same for me. Nice video and greetings from Germany.

   1. I married a German girl, a German citizen born and raised in Nuremberg. Germany is probably the greatest country on earth. The only problem for me personally is how grey and cloudy it is. If there was more sun I would move there.

   2. ​@@acernegundo4270 not at all after all those immigrants, not gaslighting, ask locals 😢

   3. Hey i am also from germany any advice for starting a vending machine business in 2025 ?

   4. @@ra0669 Na immer 😉

   5. Are you a millionaire

9. They have two of these type vending machines at the hospital in our city and they even had 6-inch Subway subs for sale in those machines. Definitely convenient for people who can’t leave the hospital and need food after the cafeteria closed!

10. Call me crazy but what I took from this is “Be Consistent”, “Keep Moving Forward”.

    There are a billion good business ideas but 99% of us couldn’t pull them off without becoming consistent and moving forward hard every day.

    1. Yeah because all they care about is fast results and get rich quickly which is fine but if they only stress so much on getting “fast results” then they won’t get anywhere and that’s why most businesses fail. Consistency is key to success not fast results

    2. What I didn’t took from this is why on earth would you blow up your business idea on the internet for free? WHY?

    3. @@pavelpetrov2939 He’s getting into the business of selling those machines? 🤔

    4. @@pavelpetrov2939 Because you usally don’t have the capacity to fill the whole market anyway, so more locations = more interest in general in those vendings machine -> people go to stores that purely have vending machines now.

    5. @@pavelpetrov2939 Who says it’s for free? Plus, bro gets to advertise his course

11. First shorter machine shown is called Stockwell by 365 Retail Markets and the second taller machine is called Micromart.

    1. Most helpful comment.
       Thank you!

    2. Coming in for the save. 🙏🏻

    3. Thank you for the info!

    4. this is some goaty comment <3

    5. You saved me time researching thank you

12. “so yea i realized how i got ripped off for an 8$ water bottled and realized i could be ripping people off instead”

    1. Smells of “I got sick of blockbuster late fees so I invented Netflix” when actually that was a dvd version of Amazon for ages before streaming

    2. That’s Capitalism, either learn how to “capitalize” or get out the way lol

    3. Try again: “I realized that people are willing to pay $8 for convenience of location instead of having to walk further for a better deal and decided to explore if this presents a viable business opportunity.”
       Water is literally free in any airport if you drink or fill your own bottle at a water fountain but so many people are still willing to pay.

    4. He said his bottle of water was $1.50

    5. He charges $1.50
       Yall wack lol.

13. I don’t know how I got to this video, as I’m a complete layman in the topic, but I really enjoyed it.
    I love it when people succeed in their business, I love hardworking people, problem solvers.

    1. Glad you enjoyed it! We’ll keep the good stuff coming your way!

14. For all those worried:

    If your debit card only has $5 the machine actually has a STIHL MS 250 Chainsaw that cuts off the, “customer’s”, arm if you go over the amount on the card. That’s the reason for the divider in the middle.

    If you did it on purpose the machine will keep the arm and make even more profit on the black market.

    If it was an accident, your arm will be sent back to you within 3-4 business days not including holidays and weather.

    Although ChatGPT errors have led to problematic situations in which customers that had cash were still getting their arms cut off.

    1. Hahahaha

    2. Gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    3. 😂😂😂

    4. MS 250 isn’t powerful enough to cut thru bone; I’d think the machine would at least need to incorporate the 350 for that?

    5. @@iterativegrowth “TAKE IT UP WITH CORPORATE”

15. A lot of hidden costs and hidden operations – WiFi router , SIM card connectivity payments with backup , financing on machines , insurance , maintenance costs, labor costs to run restocking routes , inventory fine tuning

    1. Like any classic 2025 machines (look next time they have antennas)

    2. Right. It’s called a job for a reason.

    3. how is any of this hidden? with common sense you know all of this is needed lmao

    4. thef is the biggest hidden cost lol

    5. That’s why they only want to talk about revenue.

16. 6:13 crystal geezer – the water that elders love!

    1. Geyser (GUY-sir). Meaning water spouting up fresh from the ground. (Don’t drink bottled water anyway). Yup, the seller doesn’t even know his own products

17. my favorite part is when he was inspired to start this business by getting scammed and then admiring the person that swindled him

    1. Yeah, l thought something similar. It’s weird. Like l guess you’d hope that people started things cause they thought they’d make life easier, or better, instead of because they saw they could get away with huge mark ups. But l’m undecided on how l feel about this.

    2. He was pretty much saying he got ripped off, and that’s when he realized he could be the one ripping people off.

    3. He recognized ppl pay for convenience dummy….he wasn’t mugged

    4. american inspiration

    5. Something to learn from and something to be warry of. These are in official government offices now, too.

18. I live in Thailand in my condo there’s a fridge like this but without any technology just a glass fridge with food, drinks you can just open and pick whatever you want and leave cash in the box or scan the qr code to pay.

    I’m so glad to be in a high trust society

    1. 😂

    2. High trust neighborhood* go to a crappy party of Thailand, and you’ll get robbed like anywhere else.

    3. in asia you can do this, but not in country that have blk and other race

    4. @@pitech4446 sadly in black communities all over the world, the thinking is how to scam, fast money etc. It’s sad that they don’t create a culture of growth. No idea why.

       Same in many other parts of the world, it’s certainly not exclusive to black peoples at all.

19. In some countries you won’t even see your Machine next day

    1. That’s why entrepreneurs do not care about or do business in third world countries. That’s why they are so crappy.

20. I can see this being an amazing idea in a laundromat—selling detergent, dryer sheets, etc. or in a gym selling reusable water bottles, towels, goggles or swim caps if there’s a pool.

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