Ice House America

Retail ice & water vending

Turn ice and water into profit at your convenience store, gas station, or other retail location

convenience store

Direct to store ice delivery is dying

It’s time to start making your own ice and water

We’ve been hearing from convenience stores for years that the price of their delivered bunker ice is always increasing. Often, they’re selling it at a loss in the hopes of bringing in customers also buying beer, snacks, or groceries.

Making ice offsite, keeping it refrigerated offsite, and driving it to your location in refrigerated trucks takes a lot of power, fuel, and personnel. These prices are always increasing, causing your bunker ice costs to consistently rise. Plus, when you’re out of stock, you have to hope that your business is important enough to be a priority and get refilled quickly. Ultimately, this is a bad system that doesn’t benefit your business or your customers. But, there is a better and more profitable way.

QuikTrip Inline Merchant

Commercial Ice & Water Vending

Thousands of our customers have their IHA vending machines outside of a gas station, convenience store, or other retail location.

Instead of buying 10lbs of ice for a couple bucks, you can make 20lbs of ice for tens of cents! With the capability to make your own fresh, filtered ice, you can finally sell ice with a huge profit margin.

Benefits of vending ice & water at your business

  • You can make ice for less and sell it for more

  • The ice is always in stock; you don’t have to wait for your ice to be delivered or disappoint customers with empty bunkers

  • Vending allows you to sell ice and water 24/7; you can make money even when your retail location is closed

  • Buyers use the ICE2U app to find their local Twice the Ice vending machine or a participating location.  When they visit your location for ice, they often stop in for other goodies too, furthering your revenue potential.

Ice Kiosk

The most trusted ice and water vending machines 

Ice House America works with many companies around the world to provide the best ice and water vending machines possible. It’s not uncommon to see one of our Ice Houses near the parking lot to provide an easy, drive-up solution. Or, you may see one of our smaller vending machines directly at the store entrance or even embedded in the side of the building.

The most popular model for national convenience store chains has been our Inline Merchants. These provide easy ice vending access on the outside of your building and can even provide access inside your business for your team to bag and stock ice or use in product displays.

Convenient business models

Ice House America has flexibility when it comes to how we sell and work with our retail business locations.

Buy and own the machine

The most common strategy is purchasing a machine from us and handling the weekly cash collection, scheduled filter changes, and tending to any routine maintenance. We’re still here to answer any questions or help you out if you need support.

Profit sharing

Depending on your retail locations and national presence, you might be eligible for a profit sharing model. In these cases, the IHA team will handle all routine support and monitoring of your ice and water vending machine. Instead of buying the machine, you get a share of the revenue it generates. You must have a multi-store roll-out strategy, and be within certain geographic areas to be eligible for this option.

Managed services

If you want to buy your machine outright, but you’re in a location where we currently manage and support other machines nearby, you may be eligible for our managed services. You keep all the revenue from your machine and pay IHA a fee to handle monitoring and routine machine support.

Start making money from ice at your retail location

(904) 241-7535

278 US Highway 319 South, Moultrie, GA 31768

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