“DISC, or "Delays to Influence Snack Choice,” … is a platform inserted inside a vending machine that catches snacks falling from the top half of the machine, where a vending machine operator would ...

CEO Sean Kelly and co-founder Andrew Mackensen started H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending in 2008. The idea for the California-based company began back in 2003, when Kelly, a pre-med Biomedical Engineering ...

Vending-machine businesses are gaining popularity because they require minimal overhead. The success of your business can depend on the products you sell and where you place the machine. Here are five ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...