{ "item_title" : "The Vending Machine Route", "item_author" : [" Peter Agro "], "item_description" : "Most vending books sell you a fantasy. This one does the math. Search vending machine business and you get the same pitch: buy a machine, place it somewhere, and collect passive income without lifting a finger. That pitch has sold a lot of machines, a lot of overpriced turnkey packages, and a lot of courses. It has not made most of its buyers money, because it leaves out the fact the whole trade turns on: the machine is the cheap part. The location is the business. A machine quoted at $600 a month nets about $115 once you subtract product, commissions, card fees, shrink, repairs, and the time it takes to keep it full. The same machine in the wrong spot loses money every month. This book shows you how to tell the difference before you sign anything. Vending is growing, but not where the hype says. The growth is in cashless payment, micro-markets, and smart coolers, while traditional snack and drink machines are the slowest part of the trade. The opportunity for a new operator is a field of aging owners still running routes on cash and memory: out-run them, then buy them out as they retire. The book follows one composite operator through four and a half years, with every number carried from chapter to chapter: buying a tired 31-machine route from a retiring owner, culling the locations that lost money, winning better accounts, adding a micro-market and card readers, hiring a driver, buying a competitor's route, and selling the business. If you would rather start with three machines, that path is priced too, from the first placement to ten machines. Inside:- How to read a route for sale: the per-machine records, bank deposits, and sales-tax filings that show what a seller's numbers are really worth- The three ways in (buy a route, build one, or start small) and the cash each one takes- The siting scorecard, the location hunt, and the placement agreement that is your real asset- The master equation: location quality x route density, with a break-even you can run on any spot- Pricing, shrink, and cashless, with the dollar value of each change on one machine- Micro-markets, telemetry, your first driver, buying a retiring operator's route, and what a buyer pays at exit Every chapter ends with Run the Numbers (a worked table with the costs included), The $10,000 Lesson (a real-world mistake, priced), and Do This Now (four tasks for this week). Every figure is an illustrative estimate, not a typical result or a promise. Nobody gets rich from a box that runs itself. But a vending route run by an operator who knows where the money comes from still pays. This is the guide to building that one.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/767/9798187670383_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.99", "online_price" : "19.99", "our_price" : "19.99", "club_price" : "19.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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