Category: Automated Retail in the Media

“Pizza ATMs? Art-o-mats? Vending machines deliver more than snacks, soda” by Allison Ward, The Columbus Dispatch

Last month, an upscale marketplace in San Francisco announced that it had begun selling baguettes in a vending machine, offering fresh and toasty bread at the push of a few buttons. More recently, the nation’s first “pizza ATM” arrived at Xavier University, setting off a flurry of news coverage and social-media buzz. Indeed, hot “artisan”… Read more »

“JetBlue Adds Detroit as the Next Destination for Its ‘Soar with Reading’ Free Book Vending Machine Initiative” from Business Wire

  Free Book Vending Machine Also Returns to Washington, D.C. Area In Partnership With Random House Children’s Books Soar with Reading Welcomes Celebrity Ambassadors Actress Victoria Justice and Athlete Justin Upton Public Can Choose the Next City to Receive Books in Online #BookBattle   NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–JetBlue’s (Nasdaq:JBLU) award-winning Soar with Reading program launched today… Read more »

“Current And Future Trends In Vending Machines” by Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes

Current trends are likely to make future vending machines quite different. For example, the ‘TWEET FOR TREATS’ vending machine dispenses products based on Tweets. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for PEOPLE) Vending machines have long been a convenient and relatively low cost method of delivering food and drink. They have also been a source of… Read more »