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A bar owner in Austin placed a vape vending machine without an ID scanner. Six weeks later, a minor purchased from it. The fine was $10,000. The venue lost its tobacco license for 30 days. The operator lost the account...

--> Everyone in vending has heard the same pitch. Micro markets generate more revenue. Customers spend more per visit. The numbers are better. And on the surface, the pitch is not wrong. Cantaloupe's 2025 Micropayment Trends Report confirmed that consumers...

A gym member finishes a 60 minute session. They are dehydrated, their blood sugar is down, and they have 20 minutes before the next thing. That is the most predictable purchase intent in the entire vending industry, and it repeats...

The hardest part of small format vending is not the machine. It is finding a room where the machine earns. Full size cabinets solve that by brute force: put a 40 inch unit somewhere with 500 people a day and...

You put your first vape vending machine in a bar. The owner asks you one question before signing anything: how does it stop a 19-year-old from buying a vape? You say it has built-in age verification. He asks how that actually...

A few weeks ago, Palantir Technologies made headlines for putting free ZYN nicotine pouches in their office vending machines. Not snacks. Not coffee. ZYN. The data analytics firm known for billion-dollar government contracts was handing out oral nicotine pouches to...

Marcus had done everything right. He scouted the location for two weeks, counted foot traffic during lunch hour, and shook hands with the property manager. His new machine went in on a Tuesday. By Friday it had made eleven sales....

Apparel vending machines are no longer a novelty. Brands, event operators, sports venues, and retailers are deploying them as serious revenue channels - and the global automated retail market, valued at $24.5 billion in 2025, is growing at a 9.7%...

Most laundromat owners ask the wrong question when it comes to vending. They ask which machine is the most popular. The right question is which laundry vending machine fits their specific traffic volume, floor space, and product requirements , because...