Charlotte, NC · Play · Trade · Collect · Win!
Pokémon Packs in Your Store. Nothing Out of Your Pocket.
Pokémon trading card machines in Charlotte-area businesses — you give it a wall and take a cut of every sale.
For store owners
Three Steps, and Two of Them Are Ours
Hosting a machine is not a second job. Here is the whole arrangement.
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1
We handle
Placement and Stocking
We deliver the machine, set it up, connect the card reader and load the first run of packs. Nothing to buy and no inventory to carry.
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2
You handle
A Wall and an Outlet
About two feet of floor along a wall, a standard outlet, and the hours you are already open. It runs on its own cell connection, so no WiFi needed. Your staff never touch it.
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3
You get
A Cut of Every Rip
Restocks, repairs and card sourcing stay on us. You take a share of what the machine sells in your store. We agree the split before anything is installed.
The machine
Built to Be Noticed From the Door
A black cabinet wrapped in lightning, lit from the tray, with the dragon on the flank. It sells to people who were not planning to buy anything.
- Card and contactless payments. Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay. No cash to count, no float to manage.
- A screen that sells while you work. Every pack on the shelf with its price, and a “Collect them all!” attract loop running between customers.
- Stocked by us, on our schedule. We watch what sells in your location and restock it. You never place an order.
- Sealed product only. Current sets, sealed from the distributor, priced to move rather than to flip.
- Every pack in a hard case. Packs ride through the machine in a rigid acrylic holder, so they land mint and the case is the buyer’s to keep.
Store owner questions
Thinking About a Machine?
The questions Charlotte business owners ask us first — what it costs, who does the work, and how you get paid.
Nothing comes out of your pocket. There is no purchase price, no lease and no monthly fee. We own the cabinet and the cards inside it, and we pay for delivery, install, restocking and any repair it ever needs.
You supply the floor space and a standard outlet. In return you take an agreed cut of every sale the machine makes in your store, and we put that split in writing before we install anything.
Roughly two feet of wall and a 120V outlet nearby. It stands on its own, so nothing gets mounted, drilled or plumbed, and your build-out stays exactly as it is. The machine also carries its own cellular connection, so it never needs your WiFi or network.
Where it sits matters more than how big your store is. The machines that sell are the ones people can see from the register or the front door while they are already standing still.
None. Your staff never stock it, never unlock it and never take money for it. It runs on card and contactless payments only — Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay and Google Pay — so there is no drawer to reconcile at close.
We track what is selling at your location and come restock it ourselves. If a customer hits a problem, they go through our issue report form and we deal with it, not your counter.
If people stand around in your store with a minute to spare, yes. Barber shops and salons, convenience and corner stores, laundromats, hobby and game shops, gyms, cafes and restaurants all do well.
Dwell time beats raw traffic every time. A barber shop with every chair full on a Saturday can out-sell a far busier store where nobody stands still. Not sure where yours lands? Get on the list and we will come look for free.
Sealed Pokémon product from current sets, bought through distribution. Nothing is opened, repackaged or resealed on its way to your store, and we price it to sell rather than to flip.
The touchscreen lists every pack with its price, so nobody taps their card guessing. We shift the mix toward whatever moves at your location instead of loading every machine identically.
We reach out, then come walk your floor and point to the spot most likely to earn. If it looks right for both of us, we agree on the revenue split in writing and schedule the install.
Placement is limited by how fast we can build and stock machines, which is why there is a waitlist at all. Getting on it costs nothing and does not commit you to anything — see the full host details if you want the long version first.
No, and we are upfront about that. The machines that turn up in national grocery chains are owned and run by The Pokémon Company International, and they are not sold to or operated by anyone outside it. Ours is our own cabinet.
What goes in it is the same sealed product from current sets, bought through distribution and never opened or repackaged on the way to your store. We are an independent Charlotte operator, not a licensee or a franchise of The Pokémon Company.