Passive income for Gladstone locations.
We put a collectible card vending machine in your lobby, stock it with product nobody else in town is selling, restock it ourselves, and send you a share of every sale. You are not buying a machine. You are renting out empty floor space for pure profit.
- Your cost, forever
- $0
- Of your staff's time
- 0 hrs
- Your check, every month
- 15th
Your cost, forever
Of your staff's time
Your check, every month
Collectible card vending machines in Gladstone
Gladstone is entirely surrounded by Kansas City yet keeps its own commercial spine along North Oak Trafficway, which is the practical reason a machine works here. Residents shop Gladstone rather than driving into the city for routine trips, so the everyday traffic stays local and repeats weekly.
- Population
- about 27,000
- County
- Clay County
- Service distance
- roughly 20 minutes from our KC base
Where a machine works in Gladstone
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
North Oak businesses
The trafficway is the city's main street in function, carrying the same residents past the same storefronts several times a week.
Neighbourhood restaurants
Gladstone's dining is owner-operated more often than chain, and independents are exactly who we prefer to place with.
Community and recreation venues
Oak Grove Park and the community centre concentrate family traffic on evenings and weekends.
Gladstone districts and corridors we serve
What we know about Gladstone
Gladstone's size works for a host rather than against them. In a city of this footprint, a machine placed on North Oak is seen by a large share of the population repeatedly, which is what turns a card machine from an impulse buy into a weekly check-back habit for collectors.
What the machine holds
Sealed collectible trading card packs — Pokémon anchors the lineup, alongside Japanese, Korean and Chinese imports no store in the metro carries, plus sports and other trading card lines. Prices start at $5.99. The mix is tuned to whoever walks past your door in Gladstone, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a Gladstone location?
Move the slider to match your foot traffic. Six sales a day is realistic for a site with steady weekend traffic.
Your revenue share: 12%
Fixed, and agreed in writing before we install.
- $2,700
- Machine gross per month
- $324
- Paid to you per month
That is about $3,888 pure profit a year from one square meter of floor space.
Estimates based on our standard product mix at a $15 average sale, not a guarantee. We give you a site-specific projection after visiting, and the share percentage goes in writing before install.
Asked by Gladstone owners
No. What matters is repeat foot traffic past one spot, and a compact city with a single main commercial corridor concentrates that better than a sprawling one.
Every one to three weeks, based on what the machine reports selling. The Northland route already runs, so we are not making a special trip.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
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Put a Gladstone corner to work
Tell us about your space and we'll be in touch with a traffic assessment, an install plan and the product mix we would run for Gladstone customers.