We'll grudgingly concede that access to chocolate isn't a sacred and inalienable right, on par with freedom of speech or the right to bear arms. Still, a may well interfere with the pursuit of ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Beginning this week, Soldiers and community members visiting their nearest vending machine to quell their afternoon "snack attack" may be surprised by the new options offered on ...

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 ...

As nearly anyone who has ever gazed over the rows of brightly colored packages and deposited the right combination of coins and bills into a vending machine has probably wondered at some point: What ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. What did you order the last time you grabbed a quick vending machine snack? Soda, candy – maybe some peanuts if you were feeling healthy?

A cash-strapped Queens library has found an unusual way to raise revenue: selling soda, chips and candy. The Queens Library recently installed two vending machines stocked with unhealthy snacks near ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — It's a familiar tableau: an overpriced vending-machine candy bar dangles on a spiral hook, tantalizingly out of reach and refusing to drop. For most of us, that mini-drama usually ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- We were amazed when the vending machine graduated from candy and soda to iPods and cell phones, but a new vending machine in west Houston dispenses an even more coveted commodity: ...