Insight: Drinks carry a higher tax rate (27% vs 18%), which inflates their price but doesn't translate to higher revenue share — suggesting price sensitivity in the beverage category.

From hot canned coffee and corn soup to highballs, dashi, and even gyoza, Japan’s vending machines offer a fascinating look at everyday eating across the country. Tanner Bowden is a writer, editor, ...

Mumbai's civic authorities are intensifying efforts to regulate street vending with a new QR code-based certification system, as per the 2026-27 Budget presented by the BMC. This step is part of a ...

In the lobby of the YMCA in Reading, Pennsylvania, stands a row of vending machines – but one machine is different from the rest. Instead of stocking chips or soda, this vending machine has ...

Combining cute Japanese vending machine aesthetics with classic management sim mechanics, Vending Machine Co. is on its way to help you build a passive income empire. The simulation game will release ...

From hot meals to chilly drinks, Japan’s ubiquitous vending machines offer life’s essentials at a push of a button. From the top of Mount Fuji to the gates of the holiest shrines, it isn’t much of an ...

American Rounds has rolled out vending machines in a half-dozen grocery stores in the South, with plans to expand later in 2024. The machines are not for lottery tickets or gumballs, but for bullets.

Edward Hebern of California designed this machine to encipher and decipher typed messages. It uses one of the most important developments in cipher machines, the rotor. Rotary cipher machines were ...

Some grocery stores in the U.S. have something unusual in stock — 24/7 access to bullets. Texas-based company American Rounds is installing ammo vending machines in stores to provide around-the-clock ...

A Texas company is introducing a new and controversial product into local stores: ATMs for gun ammunition. American Rounds, which prides itself on facilitating “ammo sales like you’ve never seen ...

In Philadelphia, you can pick up a cube of cave-ripened cow’s milk cheese at 7 a.m., or a wheel washed in seawater from the North Atlantic for a midnight snack. Perrystead Dairy just unveiled one of ...