executivevending Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Like gumballs and candy. When should you completely empty out the machine a put new product in? Or do you just keep putting new in every time? I know you fill it ip with new every time you service but what about when the stuff has been in there for a while at slower locations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 When you see maggots in there its time to change out the product , I know not very helpful but I couldn't resist because I've actually seen that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threeponys Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I filled only half way on new locations and checked back 2 weeks later. Once I knew the traffic it made it easier to maintain fresh product. Gumballs have a decent shelf life. On slow moving locations, I pulled the machine. This worked for me: I put the 3 slowest moving location on watch (my spreadsheet only), maybe change up product, add capsules, etc., 2nd month if slow started looking for a new location. If a location after the 3rd month continued to be dismal, I pulled the machine and placed at a location I had found to put it in, with fresh product of course. I also had a couple spares on hand in case of theft, damage or to place when I pulled for cleaning. PMM will leave a mess in the machine if not cleaned periodically. Hope this helps. Maggots! Now thats a novel idea. Would 12-14 for a quarter be fair! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newheart53 Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I personally visually inspect the candy [especially at the bottom of the cannister] if it looks fadded or broken up from the top weight then I replace the contents with fresh at a lower level Then I will sample [taste] the product to make sure it hasn't staled out. If you don't want to buy candy out of your machine no one else does either. Magots used to be a dime a dozen but with inflation a quarter a dozen seems fair. hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepherdsflock Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I personally visually inspect the candy [especially at the bottom of the cannister] if it looks fadded or broken up from the top weight then I replace the contents with fresh at a lower level Then I will sample [taste] the product to make sure it hasn't staled out. If you don't want to buy candy out of your machine no one else does either. Agreed. This is the same thing I do. Not being faded isn't always a good indication of product freshness, which is why it's important to taste. I had some Boston Baked Beans that were selling pretty well for a while then the sales plummeted. They still looked fine, but when I tasted them they were rancid. Also watch out for candies like Reese's Pieces that have a wax coating on them. They don't really go stale very quickly, but if they get hot (transporting them in the summer time) and then cool down, they will clump together and won't vend. I had a place that was selling Reese's Pieces pretty well back in July. It was very hot the day I serviced the machine and I noticed the Reese's Pieces looked kind of shiny as I was dumping them in the head. When I serviced the machine the next month I hadn't hardly sold any Reese's Pieces there. At first I was baffled as to why this place went from a high seller of Reese's Pieces to almost none. Then I noticed that the Reese's Pieces looked kind of white and pasty. I reached my hand into the head and discovered that they were just one big hard clump and the product wheel couldn't dispense anything. I had throw them all away and put in a fresh bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdendy Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Agreed. This is the same thing I do. Not being faded isn't always a good indication of product freshness, which is why it's important to taste. I had some Boston Baked Beans that were selling pretty well for a while then the sales plummeted. They still looked fine, but when I tasted them they were rancid. Also watch out for candies like Reese's Pieces that have a wax coating on them. They don't really go stale very quickly, but if they get hot (transporting them in the summer time) and then cool down, they will clump together and won't vend. I had a place that was selling Reese's Pieces pretty well back in July. It was very hot the day I serviced the machine and I noticed the Reese's Pieces looked kind of shiny as I was dumping them in the head. When I serviced the machine the next month I hadn't hardly sold any Reese's Pieces there. At first I was baffled as to why this place went from a high seller of Reese's Pieces to almost none. Then I noticed that the Reese's Pieces looked kind of white and pasty. I reached my hand into the head and discovered that they were just one big hard clump and the product wheel couldn't dispense anything. I had throw them all away and put in a fresh bag. I agree, what I did at every service date, after the initial first 3 months after setup, I would run a quarter through, to test mech and product, that way I got the oldest product sitting at the bottom, same as the customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Action Vending Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 I personally visually inspect the candy [especially at the bottom of the cannister] if it looks fadded or broken up from the top weight then I replace the contents with fresh at a lower level Then I will sample [taste] the product to make sure it hasn't staled out. If you don't want to buy candy out of your machine no one else does either. Magots used to be a dime a dozen but with inflation a quarter a dozen seems fair. hahahaha Those broken up pieces arent from the top weight they are from the sun cracking them. Put a sun blocker in the machine to block the sun ( gumball display backwards) and this should cure alot of the broken pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
executivevending Posted February 20, 2013 Author Share Posted February 20, 2013 Thanks for all the responses guys! I appreciate it a lot! Doing my route tomorrow and definitely appreciate all the responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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