putrevus Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Hi All, Please share your experiences and the effects in your business.How are dealing in servicing the locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cvending Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 In Ohio all nursing homes are on lock down, Only medically necessary people may enter the facilities. Our correctional facilities are also locked down. We will not be able to service collect machines for 3 weeks minimum.This will be a very difficult time for many vendors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCandyMaN Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 many places are closing down, pop up hospitals are available, purell and TP is on the low, stores are being mobbed, i bought out all the gumballs! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 nursing homes are becoming very difficult to gain access to. interviews at each location, etc. I also expect we won't have access for at least a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickers Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Our college We service (6,000 kids) will be online instead of on campus. Nursing homes on lock like the others. Not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southeast Treats Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 So far, the blue collar manufacturing is still going OK. None of my locations have taken any drastic action as of yet, but I expect to see some drop off on the white collar side in the coming weeks. Anyone added travel size hand sanitizer to your machines? I priced some out at Vistar, cost was about 1.67 per 1oz bottle.... probably by the time we get it stocked the demand will be over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tblake05 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 4 hours ago, Chard said: nursing homes are becoming very difficult to gain access to. interviews at each location, etc. I also expect we won't have access for at least a month Yes, just experienced this yesterday also. Awesome. Well, it is what it is I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Snickers Posted March 13, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 13, 2020 I don’t get the toilet paper thing. I guess people are planning on not leaving the house for 6 months? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tblake05 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 PS, Has anyone thought about a way to keep track of lost sales. Didn't I hear on the news that Prez Trump was going to offer a tax break to small businesses who were effected by the coronavirus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chard Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 just do a year to year comparison on stops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tc vending Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 All hell is breaking loose we were doing good. Nursing homes on lock down access restrictions. No news from anywhere else I except sales to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taysha Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 70% of my machines are in schools, which have all closed down until 4/13. Rest of machines are in YMCAs, which are still open but have cancelled all youth programming and sports leagues, which will definitely decrease sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Leisure Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I'm not happy about the virus at all, obviously, but this business is so difficult to get away from that I see a bright side if my biggest customers either curtailed or shut down for a couple of weeks. Nice break for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwc31015 Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 I'm a small operator and have no schools to deal with. I do have some hotels but some of those have a lot of long term guests, i.e. residents. The others are at the end of the slow season anyway. The rest of mine are either in apartment buildings or blue collar businesses so I don't expect much of an impact. I feel for those who have a lot in impacted locations. Must be a nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tblake05 Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Chard said: just do a year to year comparison on stops Would work if the locations impacted you had last year. Mine I have acquired recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunCandy Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 No vending here! Seems like a good time to take a in state vacation!. ca'jun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Just found out our schools are now closed for 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoom Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 In Oregon, I still have access to one nursing home, shut out of the other. But for a very strange reason. One floor of this nursing home is in lockdown do to some residents with flu symptoms but no positive test yet. However, the residents and staff from the locked down floor won't stop coming downstairs to use the vending machines, so I had to turn them off to remove the temptation. I'm bringing a bottle of hand santizer with me, visible to everyone. At each location I sanitize before loading each machines, then after collecting money as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orsd Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 17 hours ago, CajunCandy said: No vending here! Seems like a good time to take a in state vacation!. ca'jun Did you retire from vending? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunCandy Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 4 hours ago, orsd said: Did you retire from vending? All my places was shut down due to the slowdown in the oil-patch! All I do now is sell machines to a few vendors locally, keeps me busy! But that will drop to zero also! No problem I will sit on front deck, drink cold beer with SKS next to me shooting the squirrels out the oak tree! Or a Nutria or two! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacanteen Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Schools closing is going to hit us hard. Hospitals testing everyone is slowing down our efficiencies, but hopefully sales from machines inside protected areas will make up some of the loss. Now if we can get our own HR manager out of our way we might get through this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 The heart of my business is full of blue collar locations. On one hand, I won't know the impact for a couple weeks or so. On the other hand, I don't think it will hot me too bad because I don't have all of my eggs in one basket. My gut feeling is that I'll get through this hyped-up drama better than a lot of others. I'm financially pretty safe. I'm more worried about the long term economic impact than anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tismael56 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Its crazy how this virus has caused the world to come to a halt. People freaking out is the worst part. I have terrible locations and dont this this full time as of right now so it hasn't impacted me too much lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickers Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 This whole thing could last for awhile and products will expire. Keep that in mind when ordering products with shorter shelf life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryChris Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Snickers said: This whole thing could last for awhile and products will expire. Keep that in mind when ordering products with shorter shelf life. I'm cutting back on pastries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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