As a kid, part of the fun of Halloween was sizing up your post-trick-or-treating stash and negotiating trades to pawn off your least favorite candies on unsuspecting suckers—a.k.a., your siblings. But ...

Despite the fact that we are now well over the socially-acceptable age to trick or treat, Halloween candy still seems to mysteriously appear everywhere during the month of October. There are bowls of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Begging your parents for quarters so that you can purchase candy from the vending machine is a quintessential childhood experience. Candy has ...

Karla Rendon stood in front of a vending machine at Maplewood Mall in St. Paul, Minn., staring at an assortment of items — diapers, baby wipes, sippy cups, bottles, grape juice and diaper rash ...

The ubiquitous vending machine has long sold snacks to office workers and people on the move. Now they're selling bigger consumer goods in "robotic stores." These are machines that sell items such as ...

"Anything that encourages reading is a win in our book." A Florida elementary school is offering reading material, rather than sweets, to students who frequent the vending machine. "It's been a ...

Like many Americans, 21-year-old Jaime Ibanez is always looking for new ways to make money. In high school, he sold snacks to his friends, which netted him around $5,000 all told. After he graduated ...

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 ...

Some 73% of adults swam more as kids. However, many have nostalgic memories of eating Airheads at the pool. The company wants to reintroduce that experience, encouraging adults to swim again — with a ...

When Luke Saunders came up with the novel idea to sell salads from a vending machine 12 years ago, it was so far out of the ...