PepsiCo launches a food and beverage vending initiative called Hello Goodness.
Debut on December 14, 2015, at the Beverage Digest Future Smarts Conference in New York, US, the vending unit offers good- and better-for-you product choices from the company’s food and beverage portfolio.
PepsiCo will place several thousand units throughout the country in 2016 at selected healthcare, recreational, transportation, governmental, workplace and educational facilities.
The vending machine, which will also be available in a beverage-only version, has a selection of PepsiCo products such as such as Naked Juice, Smartfood Delight popcorn, Lay’s Oven Baked potato chips, Quaker Real Medleys bars, Pure Leaf iced tea, Propel Electrolyte Water, Tropicana Pure Premium and Sabra Ready-to-Eat Hummus cups.
Other features include:
– A digital point-of-sale touch screen with product nutritional information,
– Food and beverage pairing ideas for different eating occasions throughout the day,
– PepsiCo receives real-time consumer preference insights to further inform future offerings,
– Dual climate-control shelving, allowing perishable and non-perishable items to be easily vended together at the correct temperature, and
– Cashless and digital vending.
