Micro Markets for Offices & Workplaces
Upgrade your staff break room with a tailored micro market vending machines solution. Providing micro markets in the office or workplace allows your team to gain easy access to refreshments at all times and enhances the overall state of office well-being.
Micro markets are an ideal on-the-go solution for busy commercial spaces that operate for long periods of time. They allow for complete convenience to self-serve food and drinks onsite and are fully managed and restocked by our team.
What is a micro market and why are they beneficial for workplaces?
At Vending Sense, we collaborate closely with our clients to craft personalised micro markets, reminiscent of a supermarket, tailored for workplace refreshments. We achieve this by deploying cutting-edge vending machines, complemented by branded housing units, to deliver the ultimate on-the-go catering solution.
Based on the size of your break room space, we will fit out the most suitable micro market vending machines, such as coffee stations, vending, water dispensers, fridges, microwaves and confectionary stands to allow your team to have access to a convenient self-service supermarket onsite. We’ll help you to stock your micro market with a diverse range of hot and cold refreshments, catering to breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even a quick snack.
Opting for a fully bespoke market solution ensures your break-out area aligns seamlessly with your brand. Our helpful team will work with you to kit out your space and customise your micro market panels to your company brand guidelines.
Partner with us to design, build and maintain your micro market
Our team will work closely with you and your marketing or facilities team to make your micro market visually pleasing and always on-brand with our partners at Nebrak. Meanwhile our technical engineers and operations team will project manage the initial installation and maintaining your market once. We’ll even attend your site as often as required to restock your office micro market machines with its best performing products and your team’s favourite refreshments.
Get in touchStock your micro market with our consumables service
We’ll craft your micro market vending machines and support you with:
Deliver a culture-first workspace with an onsite micro market
Enhance your workplace and employee well-being by improving your communal breakout area and offering on-the-go refreshments.
Boost workplace well-being
Fuel your team and enhance your company culture, team morale, and workplace well-being with a micro market solution. The benefits include:
- Attract and retain top talent
- Boost productivity and morale by encouraging regular breaks
- Energise your team with 24/7 refreshments
Read more on our blog: Workplace wellness – the benefits of micro markets.
Promote healthy eating
The average person in the UK spends 19.6% of waking hours at work, making healthy eating essential. Our consumables service provides a variety of healthy snacks for your micro market and healthy vending machines, including fresh fruit, healthy breakfasts, and protein-enriched options.
At Vending Sense, we partner with some of the top healthy snack brands such as Kind, Propercorn, Huel, Grenade, Nakd, Eat Real, and Moma to offer a wide range of healthy choices.
Streamline management & payments
Manage your micro market effortlessly with our contactless, self-serve solutions, similar to your local supermarket.
Vending Sense ensures your micro market remains fully stocked and presentable with on-site maintenance services. Simplify user experience and upkeep by offering:
- Automatically topped-up account cards
- Fingerprint payment options
- Mobile payment capabilities
- Contactless card payments
Delivering sustainable micro market vending for the head office team at The London Fire Brigade
Read our case study
FAQs
What are micro markets and how do they work?
Micro markets are small-scale self-service retail environments, offering a variety of snacks and refreshments. Customers choose items directly, pay using various methods, and can access the market 24/7. Micro markets provide convenience and flexibility for your employees, they combine aspects of vending machines and convenience stores to offer a quick shopping experience. The Vending Sense team will always be on hand to manage, stock and maintain your micro market, ensuring they are always available for your team.
Micro markets are most effective for businesses that have over 100 on-site staff members and either an available wall space or a dedicated break room.
For more information, you can read our guide to micro markets for modern workspaces over on our blog.
What products can you put in a micro market?
Our micro market solution is designed to be fully tailored to your business requirements, providing a wide range of options to meet your needs. You have the flexibility to stock your vending machines with a variety of refreshments, including both hot and cold options, as well as fresh food choices, healthy eating alternatives, and an assortment of cold beverages.
Through our consumables service, we have established partnerships with renowned brands like Huel, MoMa Porridge, Cadbury, Nestlé, and many others, with a diverse selection of high-quality products to stock your micro market with.
Will I manage the micro market’s performance and pricing?
Put simply, yes! By sourcing your consumables with Vending Sense, we will help project manage the pricing of the items you sell in your micro market and ensure the refreshments are performing well.
We also understand the importance of adapting to the ever-changing preferences of your employees and customers. Which is why our team of experts tap into our intelligent telemetry system to monitor and identify the products that resonate the most with your micro market users. This valuable insight allows us to tailor the products in your micro market vending machines, ensuring that they are well stocked with the items that perform best and are in high demand based on your micro market data. With our attentive approach to customer satisfaction, we’ll work alongside you to create a seamless experience for your micro market area that will help to keep your co-workers happy and fuelled.
What is the lead time for designing and installing a micro market?
The lead time for a micro market can be dependent on the size of your micro market and the number of machines you take out. Smaller coffee machine stations for an office may take only a few weeks to install, whilst a large micro market with bespoke branded housing units, multiple machine types and payment options can take around 2 -3 months to achieve based on your needs.
Talk to our team of experts who will recommend the most achievable timeframe for your business and we’ll work alongside you to help get your micro market up and running as soon as possible.
Are micro markets suitable for smaller office environments or workspace?
We understand not all offices have the space to incorporate a full break-out area for their staff. Which is why with a bespoke office micro market, we create a market to fit any wall space that you have available. As long as you have an unoccupied wall in the building to use, we can help you to create a custom solution that works around you.
Micro markets tend to work best for businesses with over 100 staff members on site that have an unoccupied wall to use, a dedicated break room or staff kitchen area.
Amazing service. I have to say what an amazing company. I called explained my situation to Sam my account manager and Sam talked me through everything. The very best equipment, on site training servicing all included, and a fantastic deal. Hands down “Vending sense” the best out there! Trust me I looked.
Jason Wilkinson
We found Vending Sense to be really great to deal with , from the guys in the office and the guys who came to view venue and install , nothing was too much trouble , with competitive pricing too!
Nikki Yodd
We moved into new office space on Monday 11th, after speaking with the very helpful and fully knowledgeable Sam on 4th Dec – coffee machines, water coolers and services were up and running within a week, AMAZING team work… would absolutely recommend Vending senses, happy customers!
D Hardisty