Before, everyone spent money lavishly, but in this special year, many people began to economize, which also deeply affected the FMCG market. Unmanned retail mainly sells fast moving consumer goods, which is a big category. Different scenarios and different models are affected differently. Under the impact of the epidemic, tourist attractions, amusement parks, cinemas and other places were restricted or closed, and the decline in the flow of people led to the sales data of vending machines in these places must be ugly. The sales data of self-service vending machines in factories, hospitals, schools, enterprises and public institutions are almost unaffected as long as they are not shut down. This kind of place, with relatively closed space, small competition for commercial products and high density of effective customer groups, has always been the place that major operators strive for. After all, the vending machine industry is also offline physical retail, and the location is very important.
The community is a special case. Before the epidemic, the overall sales of vending machines put into the community were not very good. Because the density of effective customer groups in the community is relatively low, young people, as the main users of vending machines, go to work during the day, and the rest of the family are old and weak women and children, who are not interested in vending machine shopping. In the evening, office workers dragged their tired bodies home and did not have the desire to shop on the vending machine. The young people's shopping lifestyle was very simple. On weekends, they went to big supermarkets and shopping malls to sweep and prepare for a week's supplies. There are elderly people at home who are more sensitive to the price of goods. Where do they go to shop in supermarkets that have activities and price advantages. However, the arrival of the epidemic has changed the self-service retail in the community. Out of concern about crowd gathering, many people also began to try to shop on self-service vending machines in the community, instead making the vending machines in the community operate better.
In fact, many people need to develop their shopping habits slowly. Once they have developed the habits, the market will open. On the whole, more than 100 million people in Japan have more than 4 million vending machines of all kinds, more than 300 million people in North America also have 45 million vending machines, and China's 1.4 billion people have less than 1 million vending machines. The market vacancy is still large, and the outlook is very good. At present, the vending machine is still a sunrise industry in China.