Shekel Brainweigh Brings Autonomous Shopping AI Retail Breakthroughs To NRF

by Emily Jed

NEW YORK CITY -- Shekel Brainweigh Ltd., a leader in advanced weighing technology, will unveil its breakthrough autonomous shopping and artificial-intelligence…

Starbucks Ramps Up Plant-Based Beverages For 2020

by Emily Jed

SEATTLE -- It's been 15 years since the first Starbucks soy latte just as plant-based milks were starting to gain in popularity. Little did the coffeehouse…

USA Today Probes Cashless Movement As Trend To Watch In 2020

by Emily Jed

A recent article in USA Today examines the extreme to which which the new decade will mark the dawn of a cashless society, as cash remains king to many…

USI Expands Evoke Line With 3 Refrigerated Combo Merchandisers

by Tim Sanford

USI EVOKE COMBO ELEVATOR MODEL DES MOINES, IA-- U-Select-It has added three refrigerated combo merchandiser models to its popular Evoke glassfront line. The…

Stern Pinball Launches Stranger Things Home Star Wars Pins At CES

by Tim Sanford

January 8, 2020

STERN STAR WARS HOME EDITION CHICAGO -- Stern Pinball introduced its latest classic flipper games at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV…

AiFi Platform Powers Silicon Valley NanoStore First Retrofitted Autonomous C-Store in Asia

by Emily Jed

SANTA CLARA, CA -- AiFi is providing the technology for the only autonomous gas station convenience store in the world -- a Loop Neighborhood Store sitting in…

Cott Acquires Watercooler Gigant Strengthening Its Business In The Netherlands

by Emily Jed

TORONTO -- Eden Springs , a division of Cott Corp., a leading provider of home and office bottled water delivery services in North America and Europe and in…

Cott Announces Launch of PureFlo IoT-Enabled Water Filtration System

by Emily Jed

LOS ANGELES DS Services , a leading provider of bottled water and coffee service to homes and offices across the U.S and Canada and a wholly owned subsidiary…

Exorcising The Ghost Of Industrial Feeding

by Tim Sanford

One of the often-unrecognized achievements of the young vending industry was its popularization of “single serving” packages. As the full-line revolution…

Giving The Market What It Wants

by Alicia Lavay — Executive Director, ICX Association

Everyone who has watched this industry for awhile will have seen that it doesn't advance along a smooth upward slope. Progress is stepwise, with periods of…

Micromarket May Outperform Vending In Low-Traffic Spots

It seems that every story you read about in this industry is about micromarkets these days. And why shouldn't it be? Micromarkets are the newest thing since…

Should You Build Big Stores Or Small Stores?

Do you ever think about how big your stores should be? It applies to how effective your current stores are and to decisions you would make concerning adding…

Small Investment And Creativity Yields Big Rewards

Office refreshment companies are not really known to advertise to the general public on TV, radio, and in print media. In some markets, AM radio commercials…

The Cure For Exclusion Is Inclusion …Not The Turning Tables

I've been writing this column now for many years, and it has dawned on me that a great many newer readers, and even a few older members of our industry, might…

Utz Quality Foods Completes Merger With Kitchen Cooked

by Emily Jed

HANOVER, PA -- Utz Quality Foods LLC has completed its merger with Kitchen Cooked Inc. which includes the Kitchen Cooked snack food brand, direct store…

Wolf Pack Part I Betrayal Of The Wolf Pack Saves Victimized Vending Business

One by one, they drifted into “The Corner Pocket” for the unspoken but understood monthly mid-week gathering. The seedy neighborhood bar owned two pool tables…

Andamiro USA names Kirby sales manager to kick off eventful year

by Tim Sanford

Evan Kirby Evan Kirby has joined Andamiro USA Corp. as sales manager, effective immediately. In this post, he will work to implement sales initiatives…

European Vending Association Welcomes Inepro As New Member

by Tim Sanford

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Vending and Coffee Service Association reports that Inepro (Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands), an integrator and provider of…

GTI readies 27th annual Asia Taipei Expo for April 16-18 in Taiwan

by Tim Sanford

January 1, 2020

GTI, which has been staging its Asia Taipei Expo & Online Games Expo for more than a quarter of a century, reports that exhibit reservations for April's…

Organizers Ready 14th VendExpo 5th WRS5 In Moscow March 25-27

by Tim Sanford

MOSCOW, Russia -- The organizers of the 2020 VendExpo here report that the vending market in Russia continues to show “positive dynamics,” with European…