VTM x Mystery Vending: Smart Kiosks + Wholesale Mystery Box Catalog
The first turnkey mystery vending program for bars, nightlife, and entertainment venues.
Mystery Bags · Bag of Dicks · Freaks Only · Pokemon Mystery Packs and More
VTM has partnered with Mystery Vending, also known as Mystery Box, to bring one of the highest-engagement, highest-margin product lines in the bar and nightlife channel into our wholesale catalog. If you already operate a VTM machine on your floor, or you are evaluating placing one, the Mystery Box product line is the single fastest way to monetize idle bar minutes and turn boredom into a $20 impulse pull.
Buy the machine from us. Buy the products from us. Vend at 2 to 2.5X wholesale, pocket the difference. That is the program.
2-2.5X
Wholesale Markup
$900-$1,500
Per Machine Per Month
3-5
Pulls Per Day Avg
$2,850+
Starting Machine Price
Why It Works
Why Mystery Vending Works on a Bar Floor
- The entire experience is engineered around the dopamine hit of paying for an item without knowing what you are going to get. You put money in, you get something out, and neither you, the operator, nor the manufacturer knows which exact item is going to drop. Every SKU is a randomized pull from a curated bin of novelties, gag items, jewelry, apparel, lighters, trading cards, drinking accessories, and adult-oriented gags.
- The lack of choice is the product. As Mystery Vending puts it, choosing your item would "break the sacred rules of Mystery Vending." That refusal to let the buyer pick is exactly what makes the machines print money in bars, nightclubs, restaurants, breweries, bowling alleys, arcades, and entertainment venues.
- The product mix is built for shareability. Bags get opened on the spot. Phones come out. The reaction gets posted. The next person in line sees the post and walks straight back to the machine. Mystery Vending's TikTok hashtag is the proof of concept: the brand has built an entire content engine on customers filming themselves opening these bags. Every vend is a piece of organic UGC that markets the next vend.
The Pack Designs
What The Actual F*ck
Freaks Only
Bag of Dicks
90s Mystery Item
Rare Pokemon
Mystery Bracelets
Weird Earrings
Attention Whore
The Psychology
The Behavioral Science (Why Customers Pay 2X)
Behavioral economists call this variable reward reinforcement. It is the same psychological mechanism behind trading card pack rips, blind box collectibles, and claw machine games. When outcomes vary, the brain releases dopamine in anticipation of the reveal, not just at receipt. That spike is why people will pay a premium for a mystery bag they would never pay for the same items sold individually on a shelf.
- Price elasticity disappears. A $19.99 mystery bag does not get compared to a $9.99 mystery bag at a competing machine. There is no commodity reference price. The customer evaluates the experience, not the line items inside.
- Perceived upside drives the buy. If a $19.99 bag might contain a $50 item, the brain anchors to the upside even when the actual odds say otherwise. People are not probability calculators. They are story machines.
- Social shareability is built in. Every pull is a phone-camera moment. TikTok and Reels have an entire content category around mystery box reveals, and operators benefit from that organic distribution every time a customer films a pull at the machine.
- Repeat purchase is automatic. A customer who pulls a fun item wants to do it again. A customer who pulls a dud wants to try again to get the good one. Both directions point at another swipe.
- Inventory shrinkage drops to zero. Every bag is sealed and identical from the outside. There is no item-level theft target the way there is with a clear-front machine showing visible high-value SKUs.
The Numbers
The Profit Snapshot
Real transactions from live mystery vending machines, straight from the VTM app: mystery packs delivered at bars and pubs, most at $12.90 a vend. The standard operator playbook is simple: vend at 2 to 2.5X wholesale, pocket the difference. Expect 3 to 5 units sold per day on average at a good bar, with strong nightlife venues running materially higher on Friday and Saturday nights and during themed events.
At a typical product mix the math looks like this:
Slow Bar
$900/mo
3 pulls per day at typical mix
Solid Bar
$1,200/mo
4 pulls per day at typical mix
Strong Nightlife
$1,500+/mo
5 pulls per day at typical mix
Stack the Higher-Tier SKUs to Pull Numbers Higher
Operators that lean their planogram toward Freaks Only, Super Freak, the Mystery T-Shirt Challenge, and the Gold Lighter raise the blended profit per unit and routinely pull the monthly number well above $1,500. Nightlife venues running themed weekends, party packages, or active social promotion regularly beat 5 units per day.
The first 3 months of software are free. Nayax processing is $9.99/month plus 3.5% plus $0.20 per transaction. The VTM software platform tracks per-SKU sell-through so the planogram can be rebalanced toward the winners on every restock.
Case Study 1 · Erie and Vine
Case Study 1: Erie and Vine cleaned us out of Pokemon packs
A few months ago we dropped Pokémon Trading Card Game booster packs into one of our vending machines on a hunch. The machine sits inside Erie and Vine, a hipster dive bar in Willoughby, Ohio. We figured a few packs would move. The bar cleaned us out.
What happened at the bar
The machine sold nine Vivid Voltage packs at $23.65 each across the back half of April and then sold completely out. For a single set in a single bar, that pace caught us off guard.
Here is the part that grabbed us. We pulled the timestamps, and almost every sale landed after 6 PM, with two coming in after midnight. This is not a daytime product. It is a nightlife product.
A pink LED Slim Wall running vapes, Pokemon packs, and mystery packs at a bar. The Erie and Vine machine in the VTM Vending app: mystery products and Pokemon packs loaded into the vape machine.
Erie and Vine results
Packs sold in a week
9
Per machine, per month
+$150
In under a month
SOLD OUT
Why the bar crowd buys
The why is simple once you see it. The people at a bar like Erie and Vine are in their late twenties and thirties, and they grew up on these cards. Add a couple of drinks and the social energy of a packed room, and ripping a $25 pack with your friends becomes the best two minutes of the night.
Nostalgia is the real product. The cards are just how it gets delivered, and a late-night bar is the perfect room to deliver it in.
Across the Network
Then We Added Mystery Packs. Same Story.
Pokemon packs proved the model, so we loaded mystery products into the same bar machines next: Bag of Dicks, What The Actual F*ck, 90s mystery items, weird earrings, drinking games. Same impulse mechanics, same crowd, same result. The bar sold out.
The receipts tell the story. In July 2026 alone, VTM machines delivered 204 mystery vends across 19 bar placements, $2,843 in gross revenue at an average of $13.94 a pull.
What The Actual F*ck was the top seller with mystery vapes and earrings close behind, 62% of it sold between 9 PM and 3 AM, and Friday through Sunday carried 68% of the volume.
This is a nightlife product, and the vend log proves it.
The mystery line runs through the same 22mm machines, the same Nayax reader, and the same VMS dashboard as the Pokemon packs, so a bar machine can carry both: card packs for the collectors, mystery bags for the party crowd, vapes for everyone else. One machine, three impulse categories, zero extra hardware.
By day of week
68% of volume, Friday through Sunday
By time of day
62% sold between 9 PM and 3 AM
What The Actual F*ckJuly 2026, all 19 bars
July Mystery Vends
204
July Gross Revenue
$2,843
Bar Placements
19
Sold 9 PM to 3 AM
62%
Case Study 2 · 1899 Pub
Case Study 2: 1899 Pub Went Bigger. More Aisles, More Products, More Revenue.
1899 Pub, a neighborhood bar in Willoughby, Ohio, ran the compact Slim Wall first, then upgraded to the Slim Tower 2.0 at the end of April. May revenue hit $5,120, a 20%+ increase in a single month.
The jump was not just capacity. Upgrading to the Slim Tower 2.0 meant more aisles, more SKUs, and more variety in front of the crowd, 24 aisles where the compact Slim Wall had far fewer. It also added a wow factor: the 43 inch LCD touchscreen and LED lighting make the machine impossible to miss from across the bar, especially on themed nights when the glowing display draws natural attention. More variety meant higher ticket averages and more foot traffic around the machine. Their top sellers stayed vape and nicotine pouch heavy: Breeze Spearmint, Breeze Raspberry Lemon, Geek Bar Pulse Miami Mint, Alp Chillen Mint 6mg, and Breeze Blueberry Watermelon. Even with all of that running, the 24-aisle configuration had room to spare for seasonal additions.
The Slim Tower 2.0 at 1899 Pub: 24 aisles and a 43 inch touchscreen.
Sales increase in one month
20%+
Average transaction value
$23.19
Aisles in the Slim Tower 2.0
24
That spare capacity is the whole point for a bar operator. With the Slim Tower 2.0 you are not choosing between categories. The same tower vending vapes and nicotine pouches can dedicate aisles to Pokemon card packs, mystery bags, and other nightlife vending products, the exact mix this article tested. More choices meant more sales at 1899 Pub, and the full case data above is what that looks like in a real venue.
This is the VTM Vending mobile app showing the aisle configuration at 1899 Pub, just like the Erie and Vine screen above, with mystery products priced and stocked per aisle and refilled remotely. Swapping a slow aisle for a new SKU takes seconds, which is how a 24 aisle machine keeps the menu fresh week after week.
The 1899 Pub machine in the VTM Vending app.
Case Study 3 · Jude's Sports Page
Case Study 3: Jude's Sports Page doubled its machine revenue
Jude's Sports Page Tavern is a neighborhood sports bar in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, rated 4.6 stars across 149 reviews and open until 2:30 AM. It has the kind of loyal late crowd this whole article is about, and it just became the second bar to prove the product mix playbook with real settled transaction data.
The situation
The machine at Jude's had a solid, dependable vape and nicotine pouch business turning roughly $26 a day, consistently, week after week. Total machine revenue averaged $28.52 per day on 1.14 sales per day. Steady, predictable, and flat.
The change
On August 11 the operator added Pokemon card packs and mystery items alongside the existing lineup. No new hardware. No new location. No price changes to anything already selling. Same machine, same bar, two new categories the late crowd was already looking for.
The result
Daily revenue climbed from $28.52 to $58.68. The vape and pouch sales held right where they were, and the entire gain came from people who had not been buying at all.
Daily machine revenue
Before and after August 11
| Category | Before (per day) | After (per day) |
|---|---|---|
| Vapes and nicotine pouches | $25.76 | $25.74 |
| Pokemon card packs | Not stocked | $16.20 |
| Mystery items | Not stocked | $16.74 |
| Total machine revenue | $28.52 | $58.68 |
Increase in total daily machine revenue
+106%
More sales per day, from 1.14 to 3.17
2.8X
Monthly run rate, up from roughly $855
$1,760
Of sales land between 8 PM and 2 AM
72%
Look at the before and after columns for vapes and nicotine pouches: $25.76 a day before the change, $25.74 after. The existing business held completely steady. Pokemon packs and mystery items did not cannibalize a single sale. They stacked $32.94 a day of brand new revenue on top of it, sold to an entirely new set of customers.
The live sales feed in the VTM operator app tells the same story vend by vend: mystery enamel pins, Lucy Breakers nicotine pouches, and Pokemon Sword and Shield Battle Styles packs delivering back to back at Jude's, with three Pokemon pack vends landing in a single late night stretch. And the timing matches the 1899 Pub and Erie and Vine stories above: 72% of all sales land between 8 PM and 2 AM, when the bar is fullest. This is a nightlife product, and the same machine that carries vapes and pouches can carry it without giving anything up.
The Takeaway
The vape and pouch customers kept buying exactly as before. The Pokemon and mystery buyers were an entirely new set of customers walking past a machine that used to have nothing for them.
Figures are actual settled transactions from a single VTM Vending machine, May 17 to August 22, 2026, measured against the full product mix change on August 11. Individual results vary by location, traffic, and product selection.
Update, August 27: mystery packs and Pokemon Pitch Black are selling out overnight
Two weeks after the product mix change, here is the raw sales feed from the same machine. Eight vends landed between 8:12 PM and 1:47 AM in a single overnight stretch: four mystery packs at $11.88, a Bag of Dicks mystery at $12.96, two Pokemon Pitch Black in protective cases at $16.20 each, and a Sword and Shield Battle Styles pack in case at $21.60. That is $114.48 through one machine in roughly five and a half hours.
Every one of those eight reads Delivered, and every one landed after 8 PM. Five were mystery products and three were Pokemon, which is the mix working exactly as intended: the cheap impulse buy pulls people to the machine and the card packs carry the ticket. Pitch Black was the newest set added to the aisle, and it sold twice in the same night.
The Pattern
Three bars, one pattern
Three different bars, three different machines, one identical result. Erie and Vine proved the demand: nine Vivid Voltage packs at $23.65 each sold out in under a month, adding roughly $150 a month on a machine that was already paying its way. 1899 Pub proved the upgrade path: more aisles, more SKUs, more variety, plus the 43 inch LCD touchscreen and LED lighting of the Slim Tower 2.0, and sales jumped 20%+ to $5,120 in a single month. Jude's Sports Page proved the revenue is truly incremental: daily revenue climbed 106% while the existing vape and pouch business held within two cents of where it was.
The clock tells the same story at every location. Eight of the nine Pokemon sales at Erie and Vine landed in the evening or after midnight. 62% of the network's mystery vends land between 9 PM and 3 AM. 72% of all sales at Jude's land between 8 PM and 2 AM. This is a nightlife product, and it runs through the same 22mm machines, the same Nayax reader, and the same VTM Software dashboard as the vapes and pouches that anchor the machine.
When it sells
Bottom Line
The pattern in one sentence: put nostalgia and impulse products in front of a packed late-night room, and they sell without taking a single sale away from what the machine already does.
What it means for operators
Packs run $20 to $30 depending on the set, and at this location the trading card add-on is putting roughly $150 a month per machine on top of products that were already paying their way.
No new floor space. No second machine. Just a different SKU in the rows.
If you run vending and you have a bar account, trading cards are the easiest test you will run all year.
Why VapeTM Became VTM Vending
VTM Vending built the first VapeTM machine, a name that played on the ATM because that is exactly how it reads to a customer standing in front of it. Tap, verify, vend. The concept worked. What we did not anticipate was how quickly operators would outgrow the single category the machine was named for.
Disposable vapes and nicotine pouches like Zyn proved the model. Then operators started testing what else sells at 11 p.m. in a bar, a music venue, or nightclub. Mystery items and Pokemon booster packs generated significant revenue and carried healthy margins, 30 to 50 percent. This increased profitability and created opportunity in heavily regulated jurisdictions, since these products did not sit under the same regulatory microscope as nicotine or vapes.
That is why VapeTM became VTM Vending. The hardware was never limited to vape, and the name should not have been either.
Convert your VapeTM to a nightlife hybrid: vape, nicotine pouches, mystery products, and Pokemon in one machine.
Best Venues
Where Mystery Vending Prints
The format does not work everywhere. It works in venues where boredom is high, alternatives are low, and the customer is already in a "spend a few bucks on something fun" headspace. The pattern is consistent across every operator running this program:
21+ venues (full Mystery Box program including Bag of Dicks and Freaks tier)
- Bars, neighborhood pubs, and dive bars
- Nightclubs and lounges
- Hookah lounges and cigar bars
- Breweries and taprooms
- Adult entertainment venues
- Casino floor adjacencies (where local rules permit)
All-ages venues (Classic, 90s, Apparel, Trading Cards, Jewelry, Nostalgia)
- Bowling alleys and arcades
- Mall storefronts and food court adjacencies
- Family entertainment centers
- Movie theater lobbies
- Hobby shops, card shops, and gaming stores
- College campus retail (student union, rec center)
- Tourist corridors, boardwalks, and theme park adjacencies
- Hotel lobbies and resort retail
12,000 to 13,000
Addressable bar and nightclub locations
50,000+
Venues once malls, FECs and hobby retail are added
<1%
Currently host a mystery vending program
The Demand Signal
The U.S. has roughly 12,000 to 13,000 addressable bar and nightclub locations after filtering for size and traffic. Add malls, family entertainment centers, and hobby retail and the addressable footprint is north of 50,000 venues. Less than 1 percent currently host a mystery vending program. The category is wide open.
The Hardware
Why VTM Machines for the Mystery Box Program
The Mystery welcome screen that plays on the machine's touchscreen.
- Exclusive wholesale access to the Mystery Box catalog. VTM is the operator-side wholesale channel for the Mystery Box product line, including the Bag of Dicks adult gag bag SKUs that drive bachelorette and party volume. Buy the machine, buy the products, run the program. No splitting vendors. No chasing sourcing. No mystery about your COGS.
- Multi-coil flexibility. The same machine can run bagged mystery product, lighters, T-shirts, jewelry sleeves, and card packs simultaneously. You do not have to commit to one product format the day you buy the machine.
- Built-in age verification for adult tiers. The Adults Only, Freaks, Bag of Dicks, and Bag of Boobs SKUs require 21+ placement. VTM is the only vending manufacturer offering a snap-on modular ID scanner that converts any machine into a fully compliant age-verification kiosk without a hardware swap. Apt-Verify biometric verification is available for stricter compliance environments.
- Cashless from day one. Every machine ships with the Nayax VPOS Touch reader. Tap-to-pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, EMV chip. Direct deposits to your bank account.
- Wall or floor placement, your call. Wall-mounted units can be converted to free-standing with the optional pedestal stand. One machine, two placement options.
- Real software, real visibility. Cloud VMS plus iOS and Android apps. Per-SKU sales velocity, low-stock alerts, dynamic pricing. Restock from data, not a calendar.
- Ships fully assembled from Solon, OH. Plug into power, connect WiFi or the optional cellular modem, load product, start vending. First 3 months of software free. Month 4 onward is $29/month per machine.
- U.S.-based support. Live chat, phone, Help Center. 1-year comprehensive warranty plus 30-day money-back guarantee. The 1,500+ active VTM placements across all 50 states are running on this same support stack.
Step by Step
The Operator Playbook
Six steps from "I think this is a good idea" to "I have a profitable Mystery Box route":
Pick your venue type
21+ venues unlock the full catalog including the highest-margin tiers (Freaks Only, Super Freak, Bag of Dicks, adult gag bags). Family-safe venues run a more limited but still strong program (Classic, 90s, Apparel, Jewelry, Pokemon mystery packs, Nostalgia). Most operators start with bars and nightlife, then expand into FECs and malls once the first machine is profitable.
Pick the right machine
Wall-mounted units (Slim Wall, Mega Wall 2.0) are the easy yes for bars and nightclubs because they take zero floor space, and the optional pedestal stand converts them to free-standing if your placement changes. Tower units (Slim Tower, Mega Tower) are for venues with the foot traffic to justify the footprint. If you are running heavy on the Pokemon SKUs, the Slim Pack Tower 2.0 ($5,000) or Mini Wall TCG is the right hardware: 22mm coils and protective acrylic cases keep every pack mint.
Lock the venue with a revenue share
The pitch most bar and venue owners say yes to in the first meeting: you place the machine, you stock it, you maintain it, you cut them a check every month. Standard split is 10 to 20 percent of gross sales. Zero work on their end. Most venues will not say no to free monthly income for a wall they were not using.
Order the wholesale catalog from VTM
Place the wholesale order directly through VTM. Pass-through wholesale pricing, mixed-case minimums, and the same restock cadence as the rest of the VTM catalog. Existing VTM machine operators add the Mystery Box product line to their next replenishment order. New operators evaluating placement can scope a machine, route, and starter assortment in one conversation.
Build the planogram around the venue's crowd
Bars near bachelorette territory: heavy on Bag of Dicks, Bag of Boobs, Birthday Kit, drinking games. College-adjacent bars: heavy on Pokemon, 90s nostalgia, T-Shirt Challenge. Nightclub anchor: lead with the Freaks tier and Super Freak. Stock at least one face per machine of the Mystery T-Shirt Challenge regardless. It is the highest single-SKU profit unit and the strongest UGC engine.
Restock from data, not a schedule
The VTM software shows you exactly which slots are moving and which are dead. Every restock should rebalance toward the winners. Treat dead slots as test slots, rotate new SKUs through them every 2 to 3 weeks, and double down on whatever pulls hardest. Operators who do this well see 30 to 50 percent revenue growth in the first 6 months without changing locations.
Wholesale Orders
How to Order
Wholesale orders for the Mystery Box product line are placed directly through VTM. Operators get pass-through wholesale pricing, mixed-case minimums, and the same restock cadence as the rest of the VTM catalog.
Existing VTM operators: add the Mystery Box product line to your next replenishment order through your sales rep.
New operators: contact us to scope a machine, route, and starter assortment for your venue. We will walk you through hardware selection, the right starter planogram, and wholesale pricing on every SKU in the catalog.
Wholesale pricing:contact us for VTM Vending machine wholesale pricing.
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FAQ
Mystery Vending FAQ
Is the Mystery Box partnership exclusive to VTM?
VTM is the wholesale channel for the Mystery Box product line for vending operators. Buy the machine, buy the products, run the program through one vendor. Single point of contact for hardware, software, payment processing, and now product sourcing.
How do I get wholesale pricing on the Mystery Box catalog?
Per-SKU wholesale pricing is shared during the wholesale onboarding conversation. Call 888-373-8158, email Sales@VTMVending.com, or use the contact form at vtmvending.com/pages/contact. Existing VTM operators can add Mystery Box to their next replenishment order through their existing sales rep.
Can a wall-mounted VTM machine be used as a free-standing unit?
Yes. The optional VTM pedestal stand converts any wall-mounted machine into a free-standing floor unit. One purchase, two placement options. If you start in a bar with limited wall space and later move the machine to a mall storefront where free-standing makes more sense, the pedestal stand handles the conversion without changing hardware.
How much does a VTM machine cost?
VTM machines range from $2,850 to $5,000 depending on size and capacity. The smaller wall-mounted units (Slim Wall, Mini Wall TCG) start at $2,850. Mid-range wall-mounted models run $3,550 to $4,250. Free-standing towers start at $5,000. The Slim Pack Tower 2.0 (the card-optimized flagship) is $5,000. Every machine includes the Nayax cashless reader, VTM Vending software (first 3 months free), 1-year warranty, and 30-day money-back guarantee.
What are the recurring fees on a VTM machine?
Two. Nayax payment processing is $9.99/month plus 3.5% plus $0.20 per transaction, starting at activation. VTM Vending software is $29/month per machine, free for the first 3 months. There are no franchise fees, no licensing fees, and no hidden software upcharges.
Can the same machine run adult Mystery Box SKUs (Bag of Dicks, Freaks) and family-safe SKUs?
Technically yes, but practically no. Once a venue is 21+ for compliance reasons, the entire machine is 21+ by placement. Family-safe SKUs (Classic Mystery Bag, 90s Edition, Apparel, Jewelry, Pokemon Cards, Nostalgic Toys) belong in malls, family entertainment centers, or hobby shops. Adult SKUs (Adults Only, Freaks Only, Super Freak, Bag of Dicks, Bag of Boobs) belong in bars, nightclubs, or other adult-only venues with age verification active. Mixing the two at one location creates compliance and merchandising conflicts that hurt both programs.
What is the typical payback period on a Mystery Box vending machine?
At typical bar volume (3 to 5 pulls per day), most operators recover the machine cost within 4 to 7 months. High-volume nightlife locations push that closer to 2 to 3 months, especially when the planogram leans into the higher-tier SKUs (Freaks Only, Super Freak, Mystery T-Shirt Challenge, Gold Lighter). Mystery vending unit economics are stronger than traditional snack and drink vending because the average ticket is 4 to 8 times higher and the gross margin is roughly double.
How long does it take to get the machine?
Machines ship fully assembled from VTM's Solon, Ohio warehouse, typically in about 1 week, and delivery takes about another week. Plug in power, connect WiFi or the optional cellular modem, load product, and start vending the same day.
Do I need to be a corporation or LLC to operate one?
An LLC is recommended for liability separation but it is not strictly required. Many operators start as sole proprietors and convert to an LLC after the first machine is profitable. You will need a bank account for the Nayax direct deposit setup. It does not need to be a business bank account, a personal account works fine.
Is financing available for VTM vending machines?
Yes. Vending machine financing is available with as little as 50% down for qualified buyers. Operators can call 888-373-8158 for current terms.
Do Pokemon cards sell well in nightlife locations like bars and clubs?
Yes, absolutely. Mystery products and Pokemon booster packs are crushing it in nightlife venues, including bars and dive bars. Erie and Vine, 1899 Pub, and Jude's Sports Page Tavern are a few recent case studies on this page showing huge increases in revenue and profit after adding mystery products and Pokemon cards.
Do mystery products sell well in nightlife vending machines?
Yes. In July 2026 alone, VTM machines delivered 204 mystery vends across 19 bar placements, $2,843 in gross revenue at an average of $13.94 a pull, with 62% sold between 9 PM and 3 AM. At Jude's Sports Page Tavern, mystery items added $16.74 a day as soon as they went into the machine. Top sellers include What The Actual F*ck, Freaks Only, and Bag of Dicks.
Do customers need to scan their ID to buy a mystery product?
No. If your machine has age verification enabled, you can set the age requirement to 0 for a specific aisle, and the machine will not prompt the customer to scan their ID for that product. Age gating stays on for the vape and nicotine pouch aisles while Pokemon packs and mystery items vend without the extra step.
How much extra money can Pokémon packs add to a vending machine?
At our Erie and Vine location the trading card add-on is running roughly $150 a month per machine, with packs priced between $20 and $30. That one machine produced about $213 from a single set in April before it sold out. At Jude's Sports Page Tavern the effect was bigger: adding Pokemon packs and mystery items on August 11 took the machine from $28.52 to $58.68 a day, a 106% jump, with Pokemon packs alone contributing $16.20 a day while the existing vape and pouch sales held steady.
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