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ARA leverages decades of industry experience and expertise to provide an impartial evaluation of the best approach for your business's next steps.

  • Project and consulting services for businesses in the vending, office coffee service, and micro-market industries
  • Problem-area identification and resolution
  • Solutions to increase business efficiency and controls
  • Deep understanding of technology needs and help with the development of an implementation strategy

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  • Automated Retail Associates by Mark Kronenberg
  • Mark Kronenberg with Automated Retail Associates
  • Mark Kronenberg
  • Automated Retail Associates

Partner with an expert at driving profits through vending technology.
Automated Retail Associates at 224-836-3464 (VENDING); m.kronenberg@auto-retail-assoc.com.

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Mark Kronenberg, founder of Automated Retail Associates, has been active in vending for over 40 years having grown up in the vending business his grandparents started in the 1930’s. Mark is an experienced vending consultant, micromarket consultant and OCS consultant and has been doing vending projects, micromarket projects, OCS projects and other food service projects for many years. Mark developed one of the first VMS’s (Vending Management Systems) and has actively been involved in cashless payments for vending and other unattended retail (automated retail) since selling CompuVend Systems to Cantaloupe Systems (later acquired by USA Technologies) in 2014 and becoming VP of Vending Management Systems.