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Article: Rising demand for personal care products offers growth opportunity for vending: as the baby boomers age, many locations have a need to provide personal care products, but they are also trying to save money and address liability issues.(Special Report)
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- Automatic Merchandiser
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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With locations not growing and the economy not adding a lot of new customers, vending operators can't afford to ignore opportunities to add sales to existing accounts.
One opportunity to consider is dedicated personal care product machines. Consumers never know when they might need an aspirin, a comb or a tampon. Machines designed to vend these and other personal care items have been available for years.
Vending operators tend to resist expanding into new product segments since it requires extra inventory and can complicate life for route drivers.
The benefits of personal care products is that they have unlimited shelf life and, in most cases, ...