Good Advice - Thanks all for the insight

I'll second that! Heat causes aspartame to break down. When I bought my soda vending route, the seller gave me a garage full (~50 cases) of soda for free. The sugar/corn syrup drinks tasted fine, but the diet drinks tasted like seltzer. He stored them in a Las Vegas garage in 110 degree heat! I tested some diet drinks that were in the machines on location and ended up pulling them all.

Sam's Club isn't always very prudent about date codes in snacks either. I once bought a case of Funyuns that were 3 weeks out of code right off the shelf. They were very nice though about exchanging it for fresh, but I have noticed other out of code stock almost every time I shop there, so beware!

i have an unusual question....

a vender collects tons of change. when banking their money, do banks sort and count it for them, or does a vender have to roll it themselves? i sure hope not!!!

I bank at Wells Fargo. They give me plastic bags to deposit quarters $500 at a time. I have a few soda and snack machines that generate some nickels and dimes - maybe $30/month. For this I have used Coinstar to get Amazon gift certificates (no fee for that).

Now if I could only find out what to do with the occasional car wash tokens and foreign coins!

Anyone have a website for them? I tried vendesign.com but it directs me to a logon page.

http://www.vendesign...l/4in1.asp?id=5 will get you past the logon.