Passive income for Merriam 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 Merriam
Merriam is small in population and large in retail — the I-35 corridor running through it carries far more shoppers than the city could ever generate on its own. Merriam Town Center and the surrounding big-box concentration draw from every inner-ring suburb around it.
- Population
- about 11,000
- County
- Johnson County
- Service distance
- roughly 20 minutes from our KC base
Where a machine works in Merriam
The venue types below actually exist here — we place against a city's real commercial geography rather than a template.
Merriam Town Center
A retail concentration whose catchment is regional rather than municipal, with families mid-errand.
I-35 corridor businesses
Interstate-adjacent retail catches both local shoppers and traffic pulling off the highway.
Community and recreation venues
Merriam's newer community facilities concentrate family traffic on evenings and weekends.
Merriam districts and corridors we serve
What we know about Merriam
Merriam's position is its whole story: it sits where I-35 crosses Shawnee Mission Parkway, which makes it a natural retail stop for a large slice of northeast Johnson County. A machine here sells to shoppers from Shawnee, Overland Park, Mission and Roeland Park as much as to Merriam residents.
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 Merriam, and adjusted after the first month on what actually sold.
What would it pay a Merriam 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 Merriam owners
No. Its retail draw is regional — the I-35 corridor brings in shoppers from across northeast Johnson County, and those are the people passing a machine.
Every one to three weeks depending on what the machine reports. It sits on our main Johnson County route, so access is easy.
More general questions are answered on the FAQ page.
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Put a Merriam 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 Merriam customers.