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Not a bad idea!! Wax, The answer to your question about the keypad being lighted is no!! The way it is built (a peice glavanized steel with 12 pressure switches glued onto that) there is no way to backlight it. That is really not a bad idea. Whether we can get AMS to do it is quite...

Wild Cherry Fragrance #4 I gave my 13 best selling vending items above which included four fragrances: Black Ice, New Car, Vanillarama, and Strawberry. After some consultations with a big supplier in the heartland, the numbers he gave me would indicate that Wild Cherry is a better selling...

In August “smokun” wrote a very good post on how much revenue that Express Exterior operators can leave on the table by not including a vending center on their wash sites. They have a “free vacuum area” for their customers, so a vending machine in that area to sell products can pick up revenue...

We have traveled this past year installing vendors and visiting different car wash operations showing our product. I am constantly amazed that many older self serve washes and even newly designed washes have only 3-4 drop shelf vendors or have no vending at all offered to their customers...

It is our belief at ShurVend that the 13 items that compromise the “basic product mix” for vending machines account for a high percentage of the total vending dollars spent at a wash site even though there are 100’s offered to the car wash industry. The ShurVend Starter Kit we offer with a new...

Robert, Windshield Washer Fluid--If quart size or smaller, can be done Quart of engine oil--Done that already--Didn't sell Gallon of coolant--Quart OK, Gallon too big Compressed air--Can be done Bottled water --Already done Hand Wax--Can be done Microfiber polishing towel--Already done Snack...

We get asked from time to time by prospective operators "what kind of sales volume can we expect from a ShurVend Vendor". We could make a "scientific wild a**ed guess", but it is still a guess. Where the vendor is located on the wash site, what the product mix is, and what the pricing is on...

There are 100’s of products listed and promoted in any car wash catalog that operators can purchase for placement in the vending machines at their wash sites. There are new products or updated designs being created and promoted constantly to add to those already available. I think we have the...

I woke up early this Thanksgiving morning and, while deciding if I wanted to get up, my brain started thinking about a name for the vendor. I thought about this vendor essentially being a vending island with all the new electronic gadgets that we now use everyday; an ELectronic Vending ISland...

Thanks for the two names we already have for the vendor. Just so everybody knows, each of you can post as many names as you want to enter into the fun. So if you are driving down the road and a name pops into your head, add it even though you have posted before. There is no penalty for...

Go****mn, Earl, sounds almost sexy!!!! Uncle Sam

Some of you are old enough to remember a show called “Name That Tune?” where contestants tried to name a tune with the fewest notes played. So we ask you clever people in “Forum Land” to help us name the newest member of the ShurVend line of vendors. It is the new 18-selection vendor that is...

We don't want any confusion between the 10-selection White Lightnin' vendor and the newer 18-selection vendor now being built. The 10-selection vendor uses smaller trays and different helixes than does the 18-selection vendor. The trays we are using in this new 18-selection vendor are the...

Do you think there may be a direct correlation between the growth of Food Stamps and the plague of fat people we have?? Uncle Sam :D

The economic downturn of the past 2 years and the request from a large C-Store operation with a 100+ car wash operations forced us at ShurVend to really begin to think “outside the box”. Tradition always seemed to dictate that modifying existing vending systems should be the primary focus (Why...

The use of a generic glass-front vending machine in the self-serve car wash setting began sometime in the 1980’s with individual operators trying to make these vendors dispense car wash products. The vending machines at that time were designed so the helix (spiral or coil) would make one turn...

The ShurVend staff wishes each and every one of you a very Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday. These certainly are not the best of times, but we still have much to be Thankful about here in the United States. Uncle Sam, Leslie, and Paul :)

My post in June of this year announced the new AMS S-3 control system that was created for the vendors we use. There were some additional features added for operations and the Sensit system was designed to be more sensitive to dropped products. We applaud the effort expended to create the new...

packerscw, If you are interested in a small free standing vendor with a small footprint, stay tuned for the next version in the evolution of this vendor. We think there is a place in the car wash business for another iteration of this concept. We will announce it soon. Uncle Sam :)

Some forum members may have noticed that I have not blogged in my user’s group for about 10 months. As I read posts during the early months of 2010, with the economy being what it was, the pessimism was pervasive. There seemed to be so much “doom and gloom” on the forum, I got “burned out”...