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These machines are making the most popular consumer products even easier to purchase. The best part is these machines don't need very much space. In some cases, these machines can be placed inside walls so as to appear like a small store front inside any building or common area. If you can pull phone lines and power to the area, you are equipped to install one of these state-of-the-art retail stations.
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Sony has also explored the non-traditional retailing strategies and brought its products closer to the consumer. Again, just as Apple and Proactiv, they decided to enter the vending world to bring their products closer to the consumer while reducing costs to enter the market. While you can't purchase computers or other large electronic equipment from the machines, they do carry mp3 machines, headphones, ear buds and other smaller electronics.
Many other major retailers and consumer products are entering the vending business to shrink the supply chain. This means that more venues will be attractive to vending type facilities whether it be in a major high-rise office building, shopping center, street corner, etc... The sky is the limit to this type of service and provides landlords with another non-traditional revenue stream. Also, these types of opportunities require very little or no cost to the landlord.