Re:The economics of vending machines
by mytailorisrich on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:19AM
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From the article:
> All costs considered, an operator who makes $5k per month in revenue might take home something like $2k in profit.
That's actually not bad at all.
The issue, as you mention, is that it may be difficult to implement economies of scale. But even 200k for 2 people is something the majority of people would be quite happy with out of a full time job, and considering that this does not require any special degree or training this is very good.
> All costs considered, an operator who makes $5k per month in revenue might take home something like $2k in profit.
That's actually not bad at all.
The issue, as you mention, is that it may be difficult to implement economies of scale. But even 200k for 2 people is something the majority of people would be quite happy with out of a full time job, and considering that this does not require any special degree or training this is very good.