We’ve seen vending machines for distributing salad, caviar, bike parts, $1,000 diamond-encrusted pendants, neckties, books, artisanal pizza, violin strings, and free food for the homeless.

Convenience, No Store. Vending Machines Are Being Stocked With More Than Snacks. By Margaret Webb Pressler. April 10, 2004 at 1:00 a.m. EDT.

Those in the convenience-store industry say these robotic kiosks could succeed by being able to avoid the lower profit margins, ... Vending machines have a long history of innovative applications.

WENDY TOTH. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kroger Co., Cincinnati, has installed a convenience store vending machine at one of its locations here. The new addition is a Shop24 automated convenience store ...

A 'walk-in vending machine' means not having to pay a staff, theoretically making such micro-retail stores attractive to EV station owners. By Jay Ramey Published: Aug 31, 2023 4:54 PM EDT Save ...

Withfishing strategies a little bit different in the fall than they are in June, July, and August,the kids made a stop at a 24-hour bait vending machine at the local convenience store togear up ...

Apple has Siri. Amazon has Alexa. This summer Tom Murn will have Vicki, a vending machine endowed with artificial intelligence that will be popping up in college cafeterias, drugstores, hospital ...