North America leads the market due to widespread adoption of automated retail technologies and advanced payment systems.

If you wanted a bag of Doritos from one of Brad Appelhans' experimental vending machines, you'd have to wait. The associate professor of preventative medicine at Rush University Medical Center ...

Delaying access to tempting, high-calorie foods and snacks in vending machines potentially can shift people's choices to purchase less desired, but healthier snack options, new research suggests.

When buying treats from a vending machine, we often have the opportunity to choose between unhealthy and (relatively) healthy snacks. Doritos or popcorn? Snickers or a granola bar? Peanuts or ...

The newest vending machines in Michigan aren't dispensing pop or chips, they're doling out free boxes of Narcan, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses. Popping up at strategic locations, the ...

The candy bar in the vending machine is tugging at your taste buds. But officials with the Blue Zones Project in Southwest Florida want you to fight the urge and opt for something heathier. The Blue ...

BENSALEM, Pa. — Forget the clanging of coins. It’s more the sounds of silence at the vending machines in area schools these days. Many students aren’t buying the healthy snacks, fruit juices and water ...

In the middle of a nationwide obesity epidemic, a handy device dripping with temptation often lurks around the workplace corner – the vending machine. America’s vending machine industry earned $21.6 ...

All of the vending machines at local parks and on other city properties will be fully stocked with healthy snacks and drinks following City Council direction on Tuesday. A 5-0 vote will result in ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- A vending machine at the Houston Museum of Natural Science serves up insects -- you read that right -- to hungry guests. Located in the Brown Hall of Entomology, the vending machine ...