A world without sellers
Following high-tech Japan, the entire progressive world is moving to impersonal trade. And if you believe the trend, then vending is a very promising type of business. And not only selling coffee or snacks. For example, this vending machine in the UAE sells… gold bars!
The system is called Gold to Go. Ingots and coins of 999.9 gold come out of the machine. Every 10 minutes, the machine updates prices via the Internet.
In many countries, even food products with a short shelf life are sold through vending machines - vegetables, meat and fish. Everything that is customary in Russia to buy in the markets in order to find the freshest samples. Take, for example, a vending machine for greens in Tokyo.
This is a bakery in Paris. And no romance for you.
And after the vegetable "market" from France.
"Smart Butcher" for residents of Alabama, USA:
A Chinese hostess chooses a crab for lunch from a vending machine.
All are good, especially the one on the far left.
Europeans and Asians willingly buy equipment from vending machines - headphones, players and even phones. They are not afraid - because in the event of a malfunction, the thing can always be taken to the service without any difficulties with acceptance under warranty. We can only dream of such service.
Although over time in Russia, in principle, gadget vending can also become a reality. For businesses, this is a big savings on rent and sellers, and for buyers - ease of processing and receiving goods. Of course, many of our customers have yet to break the psychological barrier "a store without a seller is not a store." Although the main snag, probably, is not even in this, but in the fact that technology, as a rule, is an expensive pleasure, and giving a soulless robot a large amount of money is somehow risky. But here the situation is changing, for example, the prices for smartphones are no longer as “biting” as, say, a year or two ago. The cheapest quad-core Android background in Russia costs less than five thousand rubles (specifically, 4,990, this is the price tag of the Highscreen Alpha Rage), the most affordable dual-core one costs 3,990 rubles (Highscreen Spark). Even a model with a week without recharging can really be bought for 6,990 rubles (we are talking about Highscreen Boost). The service is also solved: some brands already work according to the so-called “European” service system (HTC, Highscreen) - when a faulty gadget is sent to a single service center by courier delivery of the Russian Post. For the client, this procedure is free.
At foreign airports, train stations, and just in large shopping centers, automatic devices for charging phones of all stripes are in the order of things.
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In Germany, even bicycle tires are sold in vending machines.
And in the USA and Spain - earthworms for fishing ... That's really who's what much!
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But you should not think that in Russia, vending machines, except for coffee and chips, do not sell anything special. In St. Petersburg, for example, a couple of years ago they installed umbrella vending machines, a very hot topic, by the way.
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In general, vending is the future. There are even fully automated restaurants in New York and Amsterdam.
All this, of course, is good, but what to do with unemployment, which will certainly appear if all the sellers are replaced by cars?
Keywords: Vending machine | Trade | Shopping