Mechanical vending machines have rich history of their evolution, this fact characterizes vending as a steady business trend, not a temporary phenomena.

Despite the fact that first mechanical vending machines appeared in electricity age electronic vendors were put out a little bit later than the mechanical ones – right after electrification of the cities and electronic equipment development.

The three components of effective vending business are location, location, location...

The best thing is to learn from someone else’s mistakes...

It is just design of a machine that causes the first and very important impression of the buyer...

We got accustomed to the fact that vendor is a kind of universal salesman (tradesman) serving tirelessly the customers’ needs. But there are lots of other effective instruments hidden under a perfect salesman. Any vendor can serve as an advertiser, promoter or brand maker...

A female operator is not amazing to countries with rich vending history. Quite the contrary many vending companies are headed by the representatives of the weaker sex...

Safety of an automatic vendor is above al.

Before the start up of a new venture all of us think about work ahead: how much spare time there will be, what routine of work will be, whether I will travel a lot, with whom I will communicate and establish business relations and so on. Our story is about a routine work of a vending operator – the owner of the network (the manager) and service personnel all in one; about working days and difficulties to be confronted with.

Some trends of vending have developed by now, and spontaneous launching of business can cause loss of time and money, and finally business failure...

A very actual topic in forums is a tactical mistake of novice businessmen: having heard a lot about the super-business, they importunately purchase 10-20 machines at once, and after that they face the problem of their location...

The optimization of the vending network means the improvement of the qualitative, and if necessary quantitative, constituent of vending machine functioning, that is outfits aiming ultimately to profit increase.

Snack selling through vending machines is an independent vending trend (snack is a product that can be snatched on a move; food being eaten at intervals between main meals; stuff that is eaten just because it’s tasty).