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Glad to find this forum and look forward to learning my way further into the vending business.  Love to get any advice or thoughts to my interest in setting up Vending machines in my COin Laundry store(what products work best, inventory etc).

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Glad to find this forum and look forward to learning my way further into the vending business.  Love to get any advice or thoughts to my interest in setting up Vending machines in my COin Laundry store(what products work best, inventory etc).

Start with a soda machine and then maybe get a crane in there if you've got the space.  I'd avoid any snack machines as you really need about half a dozen of them to space out inventory and avoid a lot of stale product - I get the feeling you're only looking to do machines in this one location so you'll never have enough snack machines to be viable.

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Or try to live off variety packs and try to only have the bare min of stock

Also if your selling soap use a smack machine

Your equipment should also be secured very well, use top of the line medeco or abloy locks and hasp locks, consider expanded mesh for the snack machine, as laundromats are high vandalism places

Also you must have a good coin changer for the washers and dryers, try a rear load one boult into wall and loaded from the back room behind it

Try Rowe, Standard change makers, American,

Also try bulk toys and a couple cheap 200 dollar craigslist video games or a multicade

Definately get cranes and quarter pusher if there legal

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Running bulk in your laundry doesn't make sense for just one location. You can not order the volume you need to get shipping discounts, volume pricing discounts and product variety. Bulk is something that you constantly have to rotate products.

Someone who runs a bulk business could give you a much better service and your cut would be close to what your net would be after shipping and other expenses.

I see this all the time when I am out locating and 99 percent of the time I can even tell you if it is owned by an operator or the business owner. I can't tell you how many times I have bought nice equipment at a "I just don't want to deal with it price" from business owners who thought that they needed their hands in every revenue stream and soon found out that it's not worth the 35 bucks a month they are making.

Unlike bulk you dont need to constantly rotate products every cycle in order to keep sales up so as far as soda goes you should be able to make it work. You still can't buy in the proper volume with one soda machine but you should be able to be profitable. Good luck and let me know if you need someone to get some professional equipment and service in your mat.

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