maestro489 Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I’m in the Atlanta area and I’m a small vendor(less than 100 accounts). Right now I only sell can because it’s whats available. However I just lost an account because they wanted to switch to bottles. I buy my product at SAMs and some at vistar. SAMs doesn’t carry 20 oz. bottles and vistare price is $1.28 per bottle. So my question is where do you buy bottles from if you don’t get them from vistar and if you do get them from vistar how do you make any money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Get ahold of your your local bottlers. I did and they set me up with an account and I started placing orders. They deliver straight to my warehouse. Good idea to know how many cases you average a week so they can give you a pricing tier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I get products from both coke and pepsi for less than 90 cents per unit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestro489 Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 About how many units do you order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Kentucky Vending Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 i would do 16.9 bottles i pay .35 a bottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestro489 Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 Is that from SAMs club? My SAMs only had coke, Diet Coke and sprite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
57thTom Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 12 minutes ago, maestro489 said: My SAMs only had coke, Diet Coke and sprite I think ours has Pepsi, too. But that's it and they had a problem moving the coke so they were out for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 2 hours ago, maestro489 said: About how many units do you order? 45+ cases /mo from each Of you don't think you'll use enough, go the 16.9oz route. You'll have to shop the grocery stores for more variety than Sams offers though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestro489 Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 How many bottles in a case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuikVend Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvus Corax Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Wal-Mart has a lot of 16.9oz bottles at 50cents or less per. Coke style bottles vending better because they are slightly larger in diameter, but it depends on your machine set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maestro489 Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 I have a pretty large variety of machines. I’m pretty sure my royal 650 machines would be fine with bottles. It’s the Dixie 368, 501, 414 that I would be concerned with. What would I have to do to sell bottles in these machines if it’s possible at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orsd Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 For the Dixies you would just run 16.9 one deep. However capacity is reduced significantly. The only bottles I run through my single price Dixies is 16.9 oz waters. (I use a local brand that has bottles that are perfect for vending.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Yes... on non-E dixie models, 16.9 oz and 20 oz bottles are limited to 1-deep, and doing 20 oz requires extra parts. However, 16.0 oz deer park (and related brands) will vend 2-deep in 501's or any other 3-deep machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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