Say goodbye to unwanted Halloween candy! When the holiday rolls around on Wednesday, October 31, Reese’s will be armed with a candy converter, which is a vending machine that will take unloved treats ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --If you want to check out some high-tech vending machines, come on down to Peavey Plaza. The Gratitude Tour, sponsored by the National Automatic Merchandising Association, is ...

Vending machines famously dispense junk food–candy, chips, soda, prepackaged baked goods. Why shouldn’t they be instead make healthy items accessible? That’s the thinking behind Peter-und-Paul-Hof’s ...