Now they’ve gone and done it: Even the prices of office snacks have gone up. Consumers have recently been bombarded with price spikes for products ranging from gasoline at the pumps to bananas at ...

Most teens crave a little snack to make it through the day, but many think vending machine prices at their schools are too high. Some young entrepreneurs have tried to capitalize on this idea by ...

Algorithms that set prices for vending machines, apartment rents, and hotel rooms are drawing federal antitrust scrutiny as regulators argue these systems can function like old-fashioned cartels, even ...

I expect sticker shock at the gas pump, but the snack machine? When an urge for something sweet hit at 3 p.m on a recent workday afternoon, I grabbed a dollar and went to the break room. Since the ...

It's rare to find a vending machine that offers a deal these days. Most sodas go for $1.75 or so, and that's not even counting the hassle of finding change. Too bad the coolest vending machine out ...