snack dude Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Went to sams today 48 count box of M&Ms and Snickers .55 cents each Verity boxes .48 cents each, I am loading up on these bad boys. Also I saw the 28 can packs of coke, Diet Coke, Sprite last week and they were gone like Sh*t thru a goose, Today I saw a 35 can pack of coke and diet coke for .24 cents each Sometimes god comes down and puts his hand on my side of the field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Went to sams today 48 count box of M&Ms and Snickers .55 cents each Verity boxes .48 cents each, I am loading up on these bad boys. Also I saw the 28 can packs of coke, Diet Coke, Sprite last week and they were gone like Sh*t thru a goose, Today I saw a 35 can pack of coke and diet coke for .24 cents each Sometimes god comes down and puts his hand on my side of the field I literally just complained about this on the vistar topic. Those 28 packs disappeared faster than Lindsay Lohan at an AA meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Those 28 packs disappeared faster than Lindsay Lohan at an AA meeting. That was just too easy for you Chris. Talk about serving up a softball. Attaboy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKK Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 How much are ur chocolates normally? Here the 72 packs of mnms and snikers are .49. At costco they have 4.50 off on 30 pack variety. Mnms snikers twix. They are only .35. Did u say 35 pack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QualitySelectionsJ Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Went to sams today 48 count box of M&Ms and Snickers .55 cents each Verity boxes .48 cents each, I am loading up on these bad boys. Also I saw the 28 can packs of coke, Diet Coke, Sprite last week and they were gone like Sh*t thru a goose, Today I saw a 35 can pack of coke and diet coke for .24 cents each Sometimes god comes down and puts his hand on my side of the field Same here dude, and Sam's is the cheapest here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Back in Jan sams had the counter boxes with regular mm's and peanut mm's in them on sale and I picked up 5 pallets of them, got about 1 1/2 left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Back in Jan sams had the counter boxes with regular mm's and peanut mm's in them on sale and I picked up 5 pallets of them, got about 1 1/2 left. You mean you can go through that much candy??!?!? I can go through a 48-count box in about 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKK Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Yeah mission i got like 60 boxes. But they expire already lol. Its was super cheap like .25c a piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfdogs Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Back in Jan sams had the counter boxes with regular mm's and peanut mm's in them on sale and I picked up 5 pallets of them, got about 1 1/2 left. This is why SAMs runs out of the special priced items! I just ran out of my pallet of 28 pack coke cans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 This is why SAMs runs out of the special priced items! I just ran out of my pallet of 28 pack coke cans... So YOU'RE the one that bought all of the 28 packs! EVERYONE! GET HIM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golfdogs Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 So YOU'RE the one that bought all of the 28 packs! EVERYONE! GET HIM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 You mean you can go through that much candy??!?!? I can go through a 48-count box in about 2 weeks. Yes, just reorganized stops after getting some more locations and are now running 4 full routes and are on target to have a 5th by the 4th of July. Gotta find another truck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKK Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 What is considered a route...when people say they have 3 routes etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I define a "route" as an area I service that should be serviced as a group. My beavercreek route consists of 6 locations and it takes me about three hours. I try to do my downtown route in the same day. The larger companies with employees usually refer to the area or group of accoynts that each employee services... 3 routes equals three drivers. Unfortunately, we all use the phrase loosely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snack dude Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 I always thought of a route as whatever a person can do in a week of servicing. Monday is this part of town, Tuesday is that, and next monday you start all over My confusion has always been I have customers that I do every other day and everyday at certain times of the year, So do they count twice, three times, what? Would be interested in getting Missions thoughts on this, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I always thought of a route as whatever a person can do in a week of servicing. Monday is this part of town, Tuesday is that, and next monday you start all over My confusion has always been I have customers that I do every other day and everyday at certain times of the year, So do they count twice, three times, what? Would be interested in getting Missions thoughts on this, I define a "route" as the work load assigned to a driver that will generate at least 275K a year in gross revenue. It seems to be kind of the standard of the big boys out there. So if you saw a ad on a 10 route vending company for sale, without any more info you know the company does somewhere in the neighborhood of 3M in sales annually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZVendor Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Regardless of revenue, a route is as snack dude and mission said, the amount of work that one route driver can do in one week, or even better, all of the machines that a single person or single vehicle is responsible for. I worked alone when I began years ago and built up my route. Then when I added an employee and a second vehicle and then a third, those became my 2nd and 3rd routes. I had three vehicles out on the street every day servicing their own machines and those were their routes. They were keyed different and each driver was handed his route tickets each day. I'm glad this has been brought up, not that these few posts will change the world, but it always rakes me when someone who has refers to one stop or even a handful of stops as a route. Now for a small Antares operator with only 5 machines, that would be his route, though I actually think of anything that small as "just having a few machines." But for someone with 60 or more machines that decides to sell 2 or 3 stops calling them a route drives me crazy. I'm just old school and am anal about this. I actually laugh and roll my eyes at the people who confuse a stop with a route, but I get over it. So TKK, all of your machines are your route. Anyone on this forum who works alone or only services machines from one single vehicle has one route. It's that simple. You will service different stops each day but only have one route until you put a second vehicle with a seperate employee in it out on the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKK Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Ok that makes sence. So if i can only handle certain locations in one vehicle thats a route. I guess i call my whole op my route lol. Theres no way i could do it in one day i do like 12 accounts 2 days a week and then the slower 2 a month accounts every 2 weeks. So say 1st of month i do 17 locations in 2 days. Then the 2nd week 12 then 17 then 12 then 17 at the next month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I'm just old school and am anal about this. I actually laugh and roll my eyes at the people who confuse a stop with a route, but I get over it. You too? I thought it was just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunCandy Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 As with my crawfish traps, I start the farthest trap and work my whey back in, same with machines, start out and work my myself back to home. the difference is sacks of crawfish the closer I get to landing and the van is empty the closer I get to the house! One route! lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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