In 2023, drinks and tobacco vending and foods vending accounted for over 40% combined value share of total channel sales in the UK. Both product categories are expected to record healthy over the forecast period and thus drive the overall performance of vending.
Convenience, user-friendliness, improving operational efficiency, AI automation, and utilising real-time data are all factors that are anticipated to become increasingly important and key to driving growth of vending over the forecast period. Interactive touchscreens and personalised features are part of the conjunction of the digital and physical realms, which enhances user experience and aligns with the evolution of consumer behaviour in the UK.
The conventional role of vending machines is evolving and shifting away from primarily offering indulgent snacks and hot and soft drinks. Instead, there is a growing trend toward machines that dispense water bottle refills, provide personal protective equipment, or facilitate recycling by accepting used containers.
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Vending (automatic merchandising) is the sale of products at an unattended point of sale through a machine operated by introducing coins, bank notes, payment cards, tokens or other means of cashless payment. Sales figures cover vended products only (i.e. food, drink and other consumable goods such as vended tobacco, sanitary products and condoms). Services such as the public telephone, launderette facilities, travel tickets, stamps, passport photographs, domestic energy supplies and business card creation are excluded. Coverage includes vending systems installed in public and semi-captive environments only. Hotels, transport networks, recreational centres, shopping centres/malls are included. Factories, offices, hospitals, prisons, schools and other captive environments are excluded.
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