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    milk vending machine

    Morning Everyone, I have the carbon footprint info in my office and will put that up later. No one ever said it was easy to do this and it is absolutely not for everyone due to location, staffing, resources, capitol. The list goes on........ As far as revenue is concerned of the customers that...
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    milk vending machine

    Of course yes. We have customers selling up to 500 litres a day of a combination of milk and milkshakes at £1.30 for milk and £1.80 for shakes. If you take the Feb average milk price at 30p/l that’s £150 at the gate compared to £750 through a machine On meat this is more variable depending...
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    milk vending machine

    See your point of view on this but what we are getting unending interest from the dairy and cattle communities for the exact opposite Our customers see it as an alternative route to market for all produce. Vending milk either raw or pasteurised through a vender is a fantastic story from...
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    Milk Bottles/Packaging

    As stated above glass is very much of the moment and if printed on can look really professional. From a delivered point of view the return issue is always going to be an issue but from a purchased point of view sales we are seeing are increasing all the time especially where milkshakes are...
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    milk vending machine

    If I had the land available believe me I would
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    milk vending machine

    I defy anyone to install a new vending system with a range of farm produced items as well as a range of locally sourced cheeses, cakes, baked goods chutnies etc and not make profit from it I visit farms almost daily to deal with old vending equipment and it’s no surprise that farmers get tied...
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    Mono-culture and food supply

    There are systems out there that are virtually Covid 19 proof. Vending systems controlled through a personalised touchscreen or direct from a smartphone that would allow the public to either buy from the machines without actually touching it or order on line and collect from the machine. Yes it...
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    milk vending machine

    It’s like other have said on here. You need to make your product unique in some way. It could just be making the public aware of you or your animals or keeping it fresh and informative. Loads of great videos on You Tube to learn how to do this. If you have the ability then making your own...
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    milk vending machine

    The vast majority of the farm vending sector are using 10 year old plus machines that have been refurbished several times already and were never designed to sell what farmers want to sell
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    milk vending machine

    If you speak to them about their costs and what a totally automatic vending machine could do to increase their sales and reduce staffing costs then you would have a very strong argument
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    milk vending machine

    If your able to sell a large proportion of your produce at much higher margins through your £200 fridge then your a better man than me
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    milk vending machine

    Anything from £6k upwards. We have installed our first machines in Chester in the last month and it’s getting fantastic reaction. 32” touchscreen control system that runs a video of the farm and its products which we put together for them and then individual product images with full...
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    Building on farmer-consumer relationships

    I have several farm vending operations near to me in Chester and they have both do this marketing exercise themselves via mainstream social media and a bit of local press involvement. One of them only started just before Christmas and are clearing between 400 and 700 litres a day which is...
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