Talked to a employee who was unloading coins and loading candy into the gumball machines. won't name the company, but it is the biggest one who operates the coin redemption machines in all the major food stores.
Here is what I learned.
they use the same sorting machines as Brinks (makes sense) and they do not kick out or detect silver coins.
On his gumball route (yes this big company owns all those gumball machines in the major food stores) he pulls out 25 - 30 silver quarters each week. The employees are allowed to buy them by replacing them with a clad quarters.
He pulls out about 25,000 pennies per month and the old policy was he could keep them, he said they paid for a nice vacation each year, but now loss control department has stopped that practice. It appears that the gumball machines accept non-quarter coins but do not reject them.
He gets about 20 - 50 slugs each week and they don't know who is doing that but they all look the same. He gave me six of them. Looked like they were punched out of electrical chassis type metal and work quite well in gumball machines. (hmm, cannot see much profit in slugging for a 2 cent gumball).
In Jacksonville he was handling a guys gumball machine route who was on vacation and in a Kroger store he found 25 proof quarters. He ask the manager if there were any recent robberies locally and the manager said yes, 3 days ago. So they pulled the security video tape and sure enough saw two teens having a good old time getting one of everything. Called the police, and they eventually ID the two teens within a week who were caught with more stolen proof coins and other stolen stuff.
Another story was one route man for the coin exchange machines went to another town and swapped an empty coin box with the full one and took the full one home. He was not so bright, since not many people have access to empty boxes and he was caught. The regular route man fell on his ass because apparently it takes a hefty tug to remove a full box of coins, and he did so when tugging on the empty one and fell over backwards expecting that it was full. He called the company to tell them what had happened and they caught the guilty guy within 2 days.
a gumball route is very profitable in these Kroger, publix etc stores, but I won't reveal the profit figures you you can guess for yourself. Stores get a big chunk.
I don't know if any of this new found information is useful to anyone, but here it is.
Here is what I learned.
they use the same sorting machines as Brinks (makes sense) and they do not kick out or detect silver coins.
On his gumball route (yes this big company owns all those gumball machines in the major food stores) he pulls out 25 - 30 silver quarters each week. The employees are allowed to buy them by replacing them with a clad quarters.
He pulls out about 25,000 pennies per month and the old policy was he could keep them, he said they paid for a nice vacation each year, but now loss control department has stopped that practice. It appears that the gumball machines accept non-quarter coins but do not reject them.
He gets about 20 - 50 slugs each week and they don't know who is doing that but they all look the same. He gave me six of them. Looked like they were punched out of electrical chassis type metal and work quite well in gumball machines. (hmm, cannot see much profit in slugging for a 2 cent gumball).
In Jacksonville he was handling a guys gumball machine route who was on vacation and in a Kroger store he found 25 proof quarters. He ask the manager if there were any recent robberies locally and the manager said yes, 3 days ago. So they pulled the security video tape and sure enough saw two teens having a good old time getting one of everything. Called the police, and they eventually ID the two teens within a week who were caught with more stolen proof coins and other stolen stuff.
Another story was one route man for the coin exchange machines went to another town and swapped an empty coin box with the full one and took the full one home. He was not so bright, since not many people have access to empty boxes and he was caught. The regular route man fell on his ass because apparently it takes a hefty tug to remove a full box of coins, and he did so when tugging on the empty one and fell over backwards expecting that it was full. He called the company to tell them what had happened and they caught the guilty guy within 2 days.
a gumball route is very profitable in these Kroger, publix etc stores, but I won't reveal the profit figures you you can guess for yourself. Stores get a big chunk.
I don't know if any of this new found information is useful to anyone, but here it is.
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