Product mix for multi-price machines with cans & bottles ?

[fogcity]

When placing a multi-price macine with both cans & bottles in a new location, what do you experienced folks recommend as a good starting product mix...  i.e...  What products in cans and what products in bottles?

[coinvestor]

I do all cans for soda, then bottles for water and sports drinks. I like this mix.

JD

[fogcity]

The Sports drinks normally seen around here are Gatorade, Powerade & Vitamin Water...  Do any of these sell significantly better than another, or is some other flavor the leading seller ??

[boldandmodern]

Did you ask the account what they want? I always ask them before we set up the machines. There is no point in putting in products that wont sell.

[mission vending]

Did you ask the account what they want? I always ask them before we set up the machines. There is no point in putting in products that wont sell.

I give them what they want. cans or bottles doesn't matter as long as they put their money in the machine

[fogcity]

That makes the best sense of course !!!

I was just wondering what everyone else did as their "standard" mix.  It would seem counter-productive (?) to me to have the same flavor soda (Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Mtn Dew, whatever) in both bottles & cans in the same machine...

[soco]

Typical mix choices that work well in my area if the client doesn't choose:

Cans: Mt. Dew, Coke, Diet Coke, Sunkist orange, ginger-ale, red bull

20 oz.: Gatorade (fruit punch), Vit. H2O (Red/purple choices), Poland Spring, Coke, Mt. Dew

[vend777]

Diet Dr Pepper is often the most successful drink in my machines. Mt. Dew seems to do better if kids have access to the machine. In an office where its only accessed by adults Mt. Dew often doesn't do that well. 

The setup I run now is usually Diet Coke, Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper Diet Dr Pepper Sprite and Lipton Citrus flavored Green Tea and Deer park water.

[Beergut]

I always thnk if you're going to put in a type of popular soda, put in its diet counterpart, i.e. if you sell Coke, make sure you sell Diet Coke, too. I am seeing Coke Zero in more and more restaurants, so you may want to add that, too.

I'd also look at the region you are in. Here in Texas, in the bigger cities, Coke will sell well, but in small towns, Dr. Pepper is the king. You know you're area, you know what people buy more of, so base it off of that.

[mission vending]

White collar environment, look more to diet drink, water, vitamin water, Sobe, teas etc.

Blue collar add, sports and energy drinks to the mix.