I sold a 976 number biz to a guy in vending. He had games in 7-11 stores all over Southern California. He showed us one of his pickup trucks loaded with bags and bags of quarters. It was pretty impressive.
Had another friend that knew the family who owns Folz Vending in NY. They recently merged with American Coin Merchandising which has something like 31,000 machines places.
Supposed to be about a $40 Billion dollary industry. But then again its an all cash biz so I doubt the numbers are accurate.
They say 7 out of 10 people use a vending machine each day.
My grandfather had some vending machines way back. Not many, but he was always handing us lunch size bags with quarters as kids.
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