(NewsNation) — More Americans are picking up side hustles, and vending machines are being touted on social media as a simple way to generate “passive” income. With roughly 3 million vending machines ...

Customers want physical shopping to feel as quick and simple as online purchasing. The demand has led to the rise of autonomous retail — stores where customers simply pick items and leave without ...

Are fast food and vending machines about food at all, or about fast data? Tech companies have led the way in consumer surveillance, and fast-food chains and vending machine companies alike are taking ...

Automated retail has quietly become one of the fastest growing segments of modern commerce. What started as simple snack vending machines has evolved into a wide range of unattended retail solutions ...

WASHINGTON — Chick-fil-A is launching its first-ever vending machine as part of a short-term test. The vending machine, which is a temperature-controlled market fridge, is currently available only at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — More Americans are picking up ...