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Best Buy Installs More Vending Machines Under Best Buy Express Name
Best Buy has announced this morning that they are installing more vending machines in airports across the U.S. The pilot program is branded Best Buy Express and will initially launch in in the following cities: Atlanta (ATL), Boston (BOS), Dallas (DFW), Houston (IAH), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), Minneapolis (MSP) and San Francisco (SFO).
Today’s announcement follows the initial launch of the Best Buy vending machine at the Dallas airport. The machines sell all sorts of electronic items from iPod media players to headphones to digital cameras.
As I’ve noted before, these machines would sell at an even better percentage if they provided devices that were already charged. And the ability to buy media from the machine (i.e. iTunes) and have it loaded on the device also could be hot. At a minimum these machines should offer charging stations - buy the product, open it and you are given a lockbox to plug in the device and lock it for a period while you wait for your flight.
Interesting take Allen. I think this is a great move, and I’m sure it will progress. I like the idea of rental units, that could be a way offering $5 per use, and not $30 per item (where the person just forgot their charger). Maintenance costs would be the risk. As long as the got 6 rentals per unit, that would make it a no- brainer
I disagree with pre-loaded media as the manual labor required to load would be cost prohibitive. Unless the big labels realize that mp3s are promotional tools (not products), and so free to the user, nobody would pay extra. I pay extra for PCs that don’t have all the bloatware on them.