# Business goals

## Expand Footprint

URL: https://applestonesolutions.com/business-goals/expand-footprint

### Description

If you want to add more retail outlets cut find the costs of physical expansion prohibitive, smart vending is an affordable and attention-getting alternative. Our customers have placed machines in such unexpected spaces as airports, supermarkets, and golf courses, and use our built-in tools to manage revenue splits with host locations. Remote inventory, sales reporting, and machine monitoring tools keep you in touch with your entire operation whether you've deployed one machine or a thousand machines. 


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### Benefits

- Cost-effective expansion
- Minimal square footage
- 24/7 retail presence
- Reduced staffing needs
- New market testing
- Quick deployment
- Flexible locations
- Low-risk scaling
- Multi-location management
- Brand visibility increase

### Features

- **Remote Management**: You can manage your machines remotely from any computer, phone, or tablet. Pull sales reports, check inventory, and run your whole vending operation.
- **Item-Level Tracking**: We know every item you've put into a machine, who loaded it and when, and when it gets sold. This gives you unprecendented visibiilty and control (that Applestone's competitors don't offer!)

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### Recommended Machines

- **Slim Floorstanding Push-Dispense Machine**: From our partners as Fastcorp: With a slim 26” x 14” footrprint, the DIVI SP Slim Standing Pusher offers a space-defying 288 product capacity. The narrow depth of the SP makes it ideal for an end-cap and the high resolution, 32” screen provides an eye-catching opportunity for brand reinforcement, impulse sales, and additional advertising revenue.
- **Floorstanding Spiral Dispensing Machine**: From our partners at Fastcorp: The DIVI SS-L is a power house of merchandising magic providing a soft-touch for your fragile products or packaging. The helix spiral mechanism guides the product to an elevator which delivers it to an access window. The eye-catching 43” high-definition touch-screen provides opportunities for brand- enhancement, as well as additional advertising revenue. Despite being packed with features, the DIVI SS-L highly maneuverable, compact customer magnet.

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If you want to add more retail outlets cut find the costs of physical expansion prohibitive, smart vending is an affordable and attention-getting alternative. Our customers have placed machines in such unexpected spaces as airports, supermarkets, and golf courses, and use our built-in tools to manage revenue splits with host locations. Remote inventory, sales reporting, and machine monitoring tools keep you in touch with your entire operation whether you've deployed one machine or a thousand machines.