Monday, December 6, 2010

The Future of Vending Machines in Japan

We can see several kinds of vending machine all over Japan. According to this video clip, there are around 5 millions vending machines distributed all over countries. A lot of people it is vital for their lives. They cannot live with the vending machines.
However, sales revenue has constantly decreased, which suggests that the market is reaching the saturation point. Therefore, many companies, who produce vending machines, has come up with new ideas for the vending machines. One of them is the interactive vending machine that prof. mentioned in class. Another interesting idea is to sell fresh fruits via the vending machines.
They are all hoping that these innovative ideas will help stimulate sales revenue to rise again.

Enjoy watching!!

2 comments:

parid.wazdi said...

Why the revenue for vending machine decrease? Maybe, people fell boring to buy through vending machine. Or.. the vending machine only sells drinking and food, if the vending machine sell money, like money changer. And the vending machine like money changer can put in the air port, sea port, and station. Maybe the revenue of vending machine will increase.

Valen said...

Thank you for sharing info and clip.
I believe the reason of increase in revenue might cause by the rise in number of vending machines as you could see that they are everywhere, rather than feeling bored of the machines as those machines became more like parts of people's daily life.
The new type of vending machine is likely to draw attention of people for other machines in their daily life.