Vending machines are becoming a strong channel for delivering those “better for you” food options in corporate offices, ...

Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents.

“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 ...

A Massachusetts elementary school is turning to automated retail to boost literacy, swapping traditional snack dispensing for ...

Three red vending machines at Fox Valley Mall make donating winter clothes to the unsheltered, providing breakfast for needy ...

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 ...

At lunchtime, the Cougareat fills up fast and students get impatient waiting for their food. Some students have figured out a trick to skip the wait in the Wilkinson Student Center: the vending ...

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 ...

The newest vending machines in Michigan aren't dispensing pop or chips, they're doling out free boxes of Narcan, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses. Popping up at strategic locations, the ...

Pity poor American consumers, stuck late at work, overnight at hospitals or preparing for drives home after long days at amusement parks. With no cash but ATM-crisp $20 bills, they gaze, longingly, ...