While most other vending categories returned to growth as mobility resumed post-pandemic, tobacco products vending did not fare as well. Current value declines are also expected to continue throughout the forecast period, due to the decrease in the smoking population, as well as a shift to other distribution channels, such as convenience stores.
Japan has a unique history of vending, accounting for the largest per capita spending globally. Vending machines have been part of the local culture for decades, meeting the need for convenience, as well as benefiting from a safe environment, where unmanned stores such as vending machines can be set up almost anywhere without being broken into or products/money stolen.
Although still a niche, some overseas players are looking into Japan as a potential market for vending, since it is so popular. For example, in July 2023, a food tech company based in the US, Yo-Kai Express Inc, installed its 20th unit in Japan, a noodle vending machine inside Shibuya’s Henn na Café, offering five hot dishes.
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Vending (automatic merchandising) is the sale of products at an unattended point of sale through a machine operated by introducing coins, bank notes, payment cards, tokens or other means of cashless payment. Sales figures cover vended products only (i.e. food, drink and other consumable goods such as vended tobacco, sanitary products and condoms). Services such as the public telephone, launderette facilities, travel tickets, stamps, passport photographs, domestic energy supplies and business card creation are excluded. Coverage includes vending systems installed in public and semi-captive environments only. Hotels, transport networks, recreational centres, shopping centres/malls are included. Factories, offices, hospitals, prisons, schools and other captive environments are excluded.
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