A quick candy fix was always just a few quarters away. Let's look back on the old-school vending machine candies that make us feel like kids again.

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 ...

Vending machines, for the most part, seem to be where candy goes to die, a carb-loaded elephant burial ground. Lurking in the back of offices and schools, waiting for people weakened by hunger ...

Snack-food companies have already been offering healthier options, but starting next year no candy bar or soda or bag of chips in a school vending machine can exceed 200 calories.

Using vending machines, retailers can track sales and inventory online, avoiding excessive trips to restock inventory and helping determine hot sellers.

Some vending machine companies even boast that their machines are stocked exclusively with healthful snacks. Nutrition experts are split on the trend.

In the middle of a nationwide obesity epidemic, a handy device dripping with temptation often lurks around the workplace corner – the vending machine.

Between vending machines’ chips and candy lies a different late-night item: condoms. When Tufts University students returned to campus Jan. 14, dormitory vending machines newly featured these ...

HOUSTON -- We were amazed when the vending machine graduated from candy and soda to iPods and cell phones, but a new vending machine in west Houston dispenses an even more coveted commodity: used ...

Today, however, instead of meals, most vending machines deal in quick fixes; sodas, candy bars and snack foods intended to quiet a rumbling stomach, not take the place of actual nutrition.

Today, however, instead of meals, most vending machines deal in quick fixes; sodas, candy bars and snack foods intended to quiet a rumbling stomach, not take the place of actual nutrition.