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Friday, January 29, 2010

What Makes Glass Front Vending Machines Popular?

With increasing demand and use of vending machines, several models have been introduced. In 1880 coin operated vending machines were first introduced followed by drop shelf and electronic drop shelf vending machines. Each of these had their own set of merits and demerits. Drop shelf vending machines use was limited to selling just one product at a time. In due course glass front vending machines have been developed.

These machines have been a huge success and were able to gain popularity within no time. The reason for increasing popularity of this machine is its benefits. Some of these benefits are mentioned below:

Increased sales: In a front glass vending machine from Planet Antares, customer can see the product which he is going to purchase. Hence it is believed increase sales and draws the attention of passers by.

• Attractive features: These machines come with illuminated motor and pull forward trays that increase the ease of dispensing. They also come with several eye catching features that give complete customer satisfaction.

• Shelf space: A glass front vending machine comes with small shelf space that can accommodate more products when compared to drop shelf unit.

• Customer interaction: Customer involvement is more in a glass front machine when compared to an enclosed one.

• Unnecessary wastage: Glass front vending machines come with electronic tracking which is used to track movement of products. This helps in tracking fast moving products and also prevents wastage.

• Wide choice: In a glass front vending machine, customer has more items to choose from.

• Branded products: Glass Front vending machines are best suitable for selling branded products.

Besides being useful to customers, these machines are also beneficial to its operator. The first benefit being, operator can market more products in lesser shelf space, reduce promotional costs by vending branded products and identify products that have crossed expiry dates. Not only this, operator can easily identify slow moving products and replace them products that have high demand.

From the above mentioned reason it is clearly evident why these machines have become so popular.

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