In addition to selling chintzy malformed plastic curios, supermarket vending machines also purvey a heady futurism — you can buy aliens, robots, and spy kits for a mere 25¢. Greg Rivera has captured ...

People love getting food from vending machines because its quick, cheap and relatively painless. They don't need to deal with a cashier or counter person; they can just grab their change and go. If ...

Shoppers at select grocery stores around the South can pick up something new: ammunition dispensed from a high-tech vending machine that contains a plentiful assortment of 12-gauge shotgun shells and ...

Vending machines have certain advantages that make getting into the vending machine business attractive, particularly to beginning entrepreneurs with limited capital. However, there's also a lot of ...

Vending machines are an old charming piece of technology that supposedly makes the lives of people easier by making water, snacks and food in general readily available. However, a new piece of ...

It's part of a push on college campuses to ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available, as some states enact abortion bans and others look to enshrine protections It's ...

NAIROBI, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water. The only way to get water ...

Some grocery stores in the U.S. have something unusual in stock — 24/7 access to bullets. Texas-based company American Rounds is installing ammo vending machines in stores to provide around-the-clock ...