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Interest Runs High
In Bel Geddes Vendor
I' Cigarette DO
Vending Simplification Explained
NEW YORK-Following their return to
New York after displaying th e new Model
500 at the Coin Machine Show in Chicago,
U-Need-A-Pak executives report tremendous
operator acceptance of th eir new line of
cigarette merchandisers. This is evidenced
by the fact that hardly an hour passes
without some operator wiring, calling or
writing in to fi nd out more about this
latest U-Need-A-Pak innovation.
The new U-Need-A-Pak Model 500 was
designed by Norman Bel Geddes, creator
of th e world famo us General Motors "Fu-
turama". Some of the advancements
achieved in this new model are Streamlined
Central Delivery, a beautiful chromed,
graduated keyboard and an attractively
montaged mirror.
"We know we have a merchandiser that
will capture every superior location in the
country," stated one U-Need-A-Pak execu-
tive, "and, judging from this pile of letters
and telegra ms, there are thousands of oper-
ators who feel the same way. Please tell
all those operators that U-Need-A-Pak is
behind them 100% and th at every repre-
sentative and distributor in our organiza-
tion will cooperate fully with them."
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Thea t re Vendors Okehed
LOS ANGELES-The local fire commis-
sion on February 27 approved the installa-
tion of popcorn vending machines in the
foyers or lobbies of Los Angeles theatres
provided in each case that there is room to
install and opera te them without interfer-
ing in any way with en tri es or fire exi ts. ♦
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We know a girl who is so dumb she
thinks .electric light plants grow from bulbs.
To N. A~ T. Il. by R. Z. Greene
"If you go into the business of cigarette
machine operating, or if you are in it, you
should furn is h cigarettes to your servi ce-
men or service department as though you
were selling th em to another customer. Th at
en d of your business must stand on its own
feet- and it will stan d on its own feet."
So declared R . Z. Greene, president of
Rowe Ciga rette Service Co. of New York
City, in addressin g th e recent N.A.T.D.
Conven tion. How furth er to help the busi-
ness progress and show a profit was demon-
strated in less than a dozen forms which
ma ke up Rowe's simplified method of rec-
ord keeping. While entries may seem like
a nuisance, he intimated, th ey are definite
time-savers as the business grows and e:x-
pands.
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First of th e forms needed to keep an
accura te record is an Install ation Contract
- a simplified agreement between the oper-
ator and custom er, which explains th e re-
spo nsibiliti es of both parties, and which
specifies the rate of commission the oper-
ator will pay for having the machine on
the location.
The salesman representing the operator
obtains the location owner's signature on
this agreement. Preferably, Greene indi-
cated, regular employees of the company
- either servicemen or men especially hired
as salesmen - should do all the location-
getting, being paid a certain amount per
pack on all cigarettes sold through the ma-
chine during a brief, specified period of
time. What th ey should be paid, he coun -
sell ed, depends entirely on how hard or how
easy it is to get loca tions in the particular
territory involved.
An Installation Receipt, signed by the
location-own er on delivery of the machine,
is an important record, and when the ma-
chine is placed the placement man should
es tim ate th e frequency with which it should
be serviced; such data should be noted on
the back of the Installation Contract. Later,
if . necessary, service should be adj usted to
actual needs. Modern machines are larger,
providing greater capaci ty for the faster-
selling brands, and today service need not
be as frequen t as it was a few years ago.
Service calls should be scheduled. For an
operation of more than 300 or 400 machines
Addressograph stencils should be used, tab-
bed for each day th at the loca tion is to be
serviced so that when the stencils are run
throu gh the machine only those print which
are tabbed for the day involved. Smaller
operations ca n use a "Monday-to-Saturday"
fi ling system, made up of three-inch by five-
inch filing cards, made ou t by hand or on
the typewriter, with a card for each day of
the week that service is required by the
parti cular location, and all filed for those
days.
A Customer's Record Card provides for
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156 NINTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
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for fhe Sfafes of
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ARIZONA ; NEW MEXICO AND NEVADA
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