Passive income for Independence 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 Independence
Independence pairs a genuine historic downtown with one of the busiest suburban retail corridors east of the river. The Square draws visitors with time to walk, Noland Road and Independence Center carry heavy everyday traffic, and the Little Blue Parkway development keeps pulling new family retail east.
- Population
- about 123,000
- County
- Jackson County
- Service distance
- roughly 20 minutes from our KC base
Where a machine works in Independence
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
Mall and big-box adjacencies
Independence Center's orbit fills with families mid-errand, and a machine near a queue catches the moment a child asks for something.
Historic Square businesses
Tourist and weekend foot traffic on the Square moves slowly by design — people are there to wander, not to get in and out.
Bowling and amusement
Independence retains several long-running amusement venues whose league and party traffic is already primed to spend on the floor.
Independence districts and corridors we serve
What we know about Independence
Independence is one of the older suburbs in the metro, and its commercial life is spread across three distinct corridors rather than concentrated in one. That works in a host's favour: a machine on Noland Road is not competing with a machine on the Square for the same customers. I-70 and US-24 both cut the city, so service runs are short.
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 Independence, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a Independence 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 Independence owners
Yes. The Little Blue Parkway and 39th Street corridors are inside our standard route, as is everything along I-70 to the county line.
Entry and mid-price packs. The corridor traffic here is everyday errand traffic rather than destination spending, which favours the $5.99 to $15 range.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Put a Independence 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 Independence customers.