Now they’ve gone and done it: Even the prices of office snacks have gone up. Consumers have recently been bombarded with price spikes for products ranging from gasoline at the pumps to bananas at ...

Most teens crave a little snack to make it through the day, but many think vending machine prices at their schools are too high. Some young entrepreneurs have tried to capitalize on this idea by ...

This year has already seen a surprising number of innovations in vending machines, from the EatWave that cooks select items to the Let's Pizza which actually makes fresh pizza from scratch. Now one ...

Forget a swim-up snack bar. This summer, Airheads is bringing its candy poolside with a completely submerged underwater vending machine. The candy company is debuting what it calls a ...

At least you’re not buying bottled water. Instead of filling up your empty water bottle at any available fountain or faucet, what if you could pay a vending machine to do it for you? That’s the ...

Taken together, the vending stories of 2025, and the outlook for 2026, suggest an industry that is steadily redefining its role.