How To Approach A Big Box Store & Get Your Snack Vending Machines On Location!

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Every big box store has their own sort of entity. What you are going to find to be the best way is to go in and talk with the local manager of the company. You want to actually set it up this way because that is the best way to find out and get your info right.

One thing to consider is that some of these bigger power stores might have a contract with a vending service company already. What happens is that some bigger companies in metropolitan areas will put bids out. What a bid is, basically like an application, or you have to fill out an application to bid on putting in vending machines in this company.

You wouldn’t just be providing vending machines for that store, you would be providing vending machines for a bunch of stores in that area, like their chain of stores.

But your first source of information would be to contact the store manager first, and simply ask them, “What is your vending situation like here? Do you have any vending machines? How is the service? I have a couple of soda & snack vending machines that I would like to place here.”

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If you are going to go full service vending, like coffee, food, soda, and snacks kind then you can just ask them what the process is of submitting a offer. At the end of the day, whether you are bidding on it to the big company, you are going to be presenting some sort of offer to them, which is going to outline your business name, who you are, what you do, the service that you provide, and what you’re offering, along with your contact info in a formal kind of way.

I would say the what you should do is; instead of going right to the corporate office, go to the local management and ask what they feel is the best route to take with that. Once you get into the corporate end of things, like corporate management, you could be chasing most managers all day long for months and months.

There are some internet sites out there that actually you can go to where you can be a member of their website and see what bids are coming up in your area. It will tell you what businesses and organizations in bigger city’s and towns, what bids are coming out for vending services in your area.

Then you can bid on those accounts. You can type in on search engine in your area, “bids for vending services” or vending contracts” or something like that. At the end of the day once you make an attempt to get the account on one of the big box stores be prepared for a time consuming process to get your vending machines placed. Who know's you may just get lucky.

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