GreenBox Systems · Vending Playbook

The Catalog

Product Map

Age-neutral essentials — distress purchases nobody price-shops. Real wholesale cost vs. vend price. Filter and sort by what makes money.

Where the money is

Top Margin Leaders

Ranked by profit per unit × distress. These earn their slot first.

Recommended loadout

The 40-Slot Planogram

An auto-optimized mix for a high-traffic travel/mall machine, weighted to margin and demand.

GREENBOX VENDTap · Insert · Scan — cashless + ID ready

Loadout economics (full machine)

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Cost to fill

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Retail value

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Blended margin

Category mix

Beyond the airport

Where to Put Machines

Ranked by foot traffic × distress-purchase fit × ease of getting the deal signed.

Buy it cheap in Georgia

Wholesale Sourcing — Tucker, GA

Mountain Industrial Blvd in Tucker is metro Atlanta's wholesale corridor. Cherry-pick the general-merch & health/beauty lines — skip the tobacco/vape most of these push.

The money model

Business Plan & Unit Economics

Per-machine monthly P&L at a solid mid-traffic mall/gym/hospital placement. Numbers are planning estimates.

📈 One machine, one month

Assume ~20 vends/day × ~$6 avg ticket ≈ $3,600 gross/mo.

Gross sales~20 vends/day @ ~$6

+$3,600

Cost of goods~30% blended COGS

−$1,080

Host commission12% of gross (standard)

−$432

Card + processing~3% cashless

−$108

Restock labor + fuel~2 visits/mo

−$260

Data + telemetry + rentSIM, software, misc

−$70

Net profit / machine / mo

≈ $1,650

🚀 Scaling the fleet

The model is copy-paste. Payback lands fast, then it compounds.

Machine cost: $4,000–6,000 new smart vendor (touchscreen + card reader + telemetry), or $1,500–3,000 refurbished.
Payback: ~3–4 months per machine at mid-traffic. Prime locations pay back in weeks.
Fleet math: 10 machines ≈ $16k+/mo net; 25 machines ≈ $40k+/mo, run by a 1–2 person route.
Second revenue stream: the big touchscreen sells on-screen ad slots + sponsored placements later.
Third stream: anonymized sell-through data — what moves, where, when — is sellable to brands.
Moat: ID-verify + cashless + live telemetry lets GreenBox win placements dumb glass-front machines can't.

🎯 Go-to-market: first 90 days

Prove the model on 3–5 machines before scaling the route.

Lock sourcing

Open accounts at 2–3 Tucker wholesalers + a national fallback (Sam's/Costco Business for HBA, online for tech accessories). Build the buy-list to the planogram.

Sign 3–5 pilot sites

Target free/low-rent amenity placements first — a gym, a clinic, an apartment clubhouse. Fast yes, real data, low commission drag.

Tune the planogram per site

Gym ≠ hospital ≠ mall. Let telemetry kill dead SKUs in the first 30 days and double the winners.

Prove the P&L, then route

Once a machine clears ~$1.5k/mo net, replicate. Cluster machines geographically so one restock run hits many.

Written to protect the operator

Location Agreements — Fixed

The old AgeVend model paid hosts a share of profit plus an agent layer — disputable and margin-eroding. GreenBox moves to the industry standard: a capped gross commission with operator-protective clauses.

Term	Old AgeVend model	GreenBox standard
Commission base	% of net profit (disputable)	% of gross sales (industry standard, clean)
Host rate	25–50% of profit	0% amenity · 10–15% mid · up to 20% premium
Agent/referrer	+5% stacked on top	One-time finder fee or capped, not perpetual stack
Machine ownership	Unclear	GreenBox owns machine, sets pricing & planogram
Term	Loose / month-to-month	12-mo initial, auto-renew, 30-day either-side out
Exclusivity	None	No competing machines within the venue
Commission on shrink/comps	Ambiguous	Paid on net collected only — never on refunds/theft
Underperformer	Stuck	Operator may remove low-volume machines
Payout	Ad hoc	Monthly, net-30, from telemetry report

🟢 Clauses that protect us

Gross, not profit. Commission on collected gross sales removes every "what counts as cost" fight.
Tiered + capped. Free for amenity sites; only premium malls/transit earn up to 20%. Protects blended margin.
We own the box & the price. Host never dictates pricing, product, or planogram.
Performance-out. Right to pull machines below a volume floor — no dead capital trapped on a bad floor.
Host duties. Host provides power, safe 24/7 access, and reports outages; liable for host-caused damage.
Insurance/indemnity. GreenBox carries GL; host indemnified for product but not for their negligence.

📋 Which deal for which site

Match the commission model to leverage. Never give gross % where you don't have to.

Offices, clinics, dorms, apartments → free amenity placement. They want the perk; you keep 100%.
Gyms, hotels, mid venues → 10–15% of gross, or a flat $50–150/mo — whichever they prefer, you model both.
Malls, transit, hospitals (premium traffic) → up to 20% of gross, justified by volume; still cheaper than airport concessions.
Never → perpetual profit-share or stacked agent fees. One-time finder fee only.

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