Unmanned vending machine is leading the way for a new retail revolution
ZHONGYA SHARES | 2020-03-06

As the popularity of unmanned retailing in recent years, self-service unmanned retailing can be seen everywhere. The trend is that unmanned vending machine will be a very profitable retail tool for the next few years.

Any kind of business can develop continuously after making a profit, the costs have to saved to make a profit, so as to create a larger profit range, that is what self-service unmanned retailing aims to resolve, it's not just to install the machine there and put something in for someone to select, the vending machine plays a key role while an offline shopping scene has been built. Therefore, if you are the manager of the physical stores such as convenience store, post office, newspaper, gift shop, etc, it is necessary for you to consider if you are going to combine with the self-service unmanned retailing.

It is unnecessary to talk more about the continuous developing speed of artificial intelligence which can give us numerous conveniences, however, we become more and more lazy in daily life due to this kind of convenience, we hope we can park car nearer, stay closer to bus stop, stay closer to farmers market, we can't wait for the drink to come to us in an instant when we feel thirsty, our standard of daily living has been raised and the quality of life has also been improved. Self-service unmanned retailing meets our convenience perfectly, and this machine does not have the high requirement for the space, which can be placed closer to us. From the present continuous developing situation of E-commerce platform, the convenience stores are the unique retail channels that have not been impacted by E-commerce platform, which has solved the convenience of our immediate demands, but the overall operation costs such as the rent of traditional convenience store and the labor cost will be very high, the operation time will also be limited, and it will become increasingly difficult to recruit the related staff of convenience stores in the future, we have to innovate and develop if we want to continue operating the business.

Currently, the self-service unmanned retailing project abroad has been very perfect, and this machine has been used for a variety of big brands to sell the products, such as gift, cosmetics, caviar hamburger, toast as well as precious ornaments (others such as beverages, vegetables & fruits, sex toys and other common products will not be listed). Today, the total amount of self-service unmanned vending machines in the world is about 20 million sets, a quarter of the machines are in Japan, every 23 people have one set of self-service unmanned vending machine, the operation scale ranks the first in the world. The total amount of global operation for self-service retailing is about USD250 billion, there is USD80 billion in Japan.