Uncle Sam
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The numbers at Store #1 (below) show the beginning vending sales records with 3-4 drop shelves in the vacuum island area. Within 6 months the operator installed 7 or 8 new drop shelf vendors on a wall at one end of the vacuum island area. (1998) The first ShurVend was installed (May, 2003) on the exit side of the bays against the equipment room wall facing the vacuum islands. The reason for doing this was (in the customer?s words) ?it was the convenient thing to do and required no building of a pad or block work. Besides I thought my customers were already trained to look for the vendors and the visual impact of the new computer-controlled vendor would be a driving force.? We might add that it was the ?conventional wisdom? in the industry at that time for vendor installations to be as near as possible to the bill changer.
The over-spray from the nearby bay began to take its toll on the security cage aesthetically, so the customer made the decision in October, 2004 to move the vendor 25 feet to the end of one of the vac islands. You can see increases in the average monthly sales after the ShurVend was installed and again after it was moved to the vacuum area. Then in 2005 & 2006 the average monthly income increased to over 300% of the old drop shelf installations.
These historical numbers show the increase in vending sales that can be obtained when computer-controlled vendors are installed in the vacuum area of the wash utilizing the Time, Location, Convenience, and the ?Sore Thumb? model of the vending machine forcing the customer to take notice of the vendor, see the convenience, and to ACT on ?impulse? to buy the vending products that are available.
Uncle Sam
The over-spray from the nearby bay began to take its toll on the security cage aesthetically, so the customer made the decision in October, 2004 to move the vendor 25 feet to the end of one of the vac islands. You can see increases in the average monthly sales after the ShurVend was installed and again after it was moved to the vacuum area. Then in 2005 & 2006 the average monthly income increased to over 300% of the old drop shelf installations.
These historical numbers show the increase in vending sales that can be obtained when computer-controlled vendors are installed in the vacuum area of the wash utilizing the Time, Location, Convenience, and the ?Sore Thumb? model of the vending machine forcing the customer to take notice of the vendor, see the convenience, and to ACT on ?impulse? to buy the vending products that are available.
Uncle Sam
