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2/18/2019
BOCA RATON, FL -- Celsius Holdings Inc. announced an agreement with Lavit LLC, to offer its energy drinks in EcoCaps for use in Lavit's cold, still and sparkling water coolers in select office locations. Under the terms of the agreement, Celsius will initially offer its orange flavor in recyclable, 100% aluminum EcoCaps designed to work specifically with Lavit's water coolers. The EcoCaps will use the same formula as Celsius' popular powder format. Celsius' energy drink includes no artifici...
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2/6/2019
CHICAGO, IL -- The first-ever National Vending Day celebration will be held on March 7, and the National Automatic Merchandising Association is encouraging its member companies to participate in the event. NAMA public relations vice-president Roni Moore explained that National Vending Day is designed to recognize the people who proudly make, sell and enjoy vending equipment and the products they vend. “From multinational brands beloved around the world to multi-generational business owners, route drivers...
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2/5/2019
GOING FAST: Available until Mar. 31, under financing plan offered by Sega Amusements and Firestone Financial are these eye-catching "theater" arcade videogames. From left are Target Bravo: Operation Ghost; Luigi's Mansion; and Transformers: Shadows Rising. CHESSINGTON, England -- Sega Amusements International Ltd. has announced an agreement with Firestone Financial, LLC (Needham, MA) under which operators can purchase any of three premium Sega theater video games and spread the cost over 36 month...
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2/1/2019
SEEING GREEN: Customers enjoy speed, ease and privacy of inaugural Greenbox machines, which went live this week at Los Angeles’s Erba Collective dispensary. LOS ANGELES -- Greenbox Robotics says it's ushering in a new era for customers and dispensaries with the installation of its first three pot vending machines. They're up and running at the Erba Collective dispensary here. The company announced in July that it was readying its first machines for deployment. | READ M...
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1/28/2019
Paul Schlossberg Wouldn't it be great to take a few days (especially for me) to shop and eat at Bu-cee's? After that, wouldn't it be even better to check off one of the great Texas barbecue restaurants? We just did that. It was a lot of fun with some really good food. You probably know by now that Buc-ee's is one of my favorite convenience stores. The Buc-ee's in New Braunfels, Texas is just off I-35. There are 60 gas pumps and 67,000 sq.ft. of floor space. At 67,000 sq.ft. that woul...
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1/23/2019
WASHINGTON, DC -- Shared workspace trailblazer WeWork Cos. has launched Made by We , its own branded coffee shop designed to provide a shared workspace open to the public and its tenants. The first location of the new coworking space concept is opening at 902 Broadway in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood. WeWork tenants and members of the public can reserve up to 100 workspace seats and six meeting rooms by the minute, hour or day. Australia's Bluestone Lane hospitality company will operate...
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1/22/2019
BELLEVUE, WA -- Consumers can now purchase bitcoin at their local grocery stores thanks to a new partnership between Coinstar and Coinme . Coinstar patrons at select machines simply touch “Buy Bitcoin,” review and accept the transaction terms, and enter their phone number. They then insert U.S. paper money into the cash acceptor (any amount up to $2,500) and receive a voucher with a Bitcoin redemption code. Only U.S. cash is accepted for purchase, and coins cannot be used for...
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1/22/2019
SEATTLE -- Starbucks Coffee Co. is piloting its Starbucks Delivers service in six more cities, going head to head with office coffee service operators by providing coffeehouse beverages with ultimate convenience to the workplace customers they serve. The expansion, in partnership with Uber Eats, began on Jan. 22 in San Francisco, the first of six new markets to offer the service to customers. Customers will be able to access Starbucks Delivers through the Uber Eats mobile app...
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1/2/2019
OFF ROAD: New Sega ATV Slam offers immersive experience of driving an all-terrain vehicle through any of 10 environments (like the airport at left -- with what appears to be a C130 transport -- and the desert at right), with panoramic graphics displayed on full high-definition monitor, motion simulation and realistic wind. It will be on display at EAG & VAE 2019 in London, England from Jan. 15 through 17. CHESSINGTON, England — Sega Amusements International reports that visitors to this year'...
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12/21/2018
Paul Schlossberg 7-Eleven will be offering a special beverage deal on Jan. 1, according to news posted at cstoredecisions.com. The headline was " 7-Eleven Celebrates New Years with Beverage Deals ." Here's what they're doing: You pay 19¢ for "a medium cup of fresh-brewed coffee or one-liter bottle of 7-Select Pure water." You've got to be enrolled in the 7Rewards loyalty program. Then you can use the 7-Eleven smartphone app to get your free beverage. It's an all-day offer on New Yea...
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12/10/2018
Paul Schlossberg It's that time of year again. It seems that we're all even busier than usual. Family and friends keep our calendars filled with fun and happy events. That's wonderful. But you still have lots to do at work. The question in the headline is something for you to think about right now. At the locations you serve there is an opportunity to show that YOU CARE to your clients and the people who are your shoppers. For example, you can: 1. Put up signs and holiday decorations. Reme...
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12/6/2018
ORLANDO, FL -- Apple Industries reports that more than 3,000 showgoers visited its exhibit at the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions 2018 Attractions Expo here. The company attributed this brisk traffic to a series of new products that it showcased at the Expo. These included the Marvel Adventure Lab, a photobooth that invites patrons to be featured in a customized comic-book alongside iconic Marvel characters including Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Thor, Black Panther, Ca...
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11/27/2018
FREMONT, CA -- PerceptIn, a visual intelligence company focused on robotics, is piloting its DragonFly Intelligent Advertising Vehicle in the U.S. It's equipped with a vending machine for consumer goods companies seeking to increase brand awareness and product sales. Consumers can reportedly safely "hail" the vehicle with a mobile device, or stop the vehicle when they see it. The DragonFly vehicle is designed to provide advertisers and consumer goods companies a digital out-of-home advertising exp...
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11/27/2018
SAN DIEGO -- Print Mates is rolling out a kiosk that allows customers to quickly print from their smartphone camera "roll" or text. Users can also connect to their Facebook, Instagram or Google Photos account, and select from a variety of print sizes, borders and finishes. In addition to photo prints, the kiosk allows for users to create premium photo goods that are then shipped to the customer's home. The product collection includes metal and wood prints, canvas products and frames. ...
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11/14/2018
FORWARD THINKER: Second-generation operator and roaster Al Ansari leads charge as FreshBrew gears up for continued growth with a $5 million expansion of its warehouse and roasting plant that will increase production capabilities from 42 million lbs. of coffee per year to 100 million lbs.-plus. FreshBrew Group took Houston’s breakrooms by storm as the city’s first operator to deliver gourmet bean-to-cup coffee at the push of a button through Crane Co.’s countertop single...
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11/9/2018
GREENVALE, NY – Print Budii is the name of the new Apple Industries division dedicated to digital photo printing via self-service kiosks. The division will reveal its first product at the IAAPA Attractions Expo show next week in Orlando, FL. Set to premier at IAAPA is what Apple says is the “world’s first app-powered self-service printing kiosk.” It allows customers to select photos from their phone gallery or social media accounts to customize, transfer and instantly print t...
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10/25/2018
WILLISTON, SC -- Crane Merchandising Systems, a Crane Co. company, said it has been nominated for MediaPost Digital Out of Home Advertising Awards for the second consecutive year. MediaPost is one of the largest and most influential media, marketing and advertising sites on the Web, providing news, blogs, and directories to help marketing and advertising professionals better plan and buy both traditional and online advertising. Crane was nominated in three 2018 award c...
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10/23/2018
NEW ORLEANS -- The National Automatic Merchandising Association’s Coffee, Tea and Water Show (CTW) will be held Nov. 12-14 (Monday,-Wednesday) at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans. The annual educational conference and tradeshow will once again co-locate with the International Bottled Water Association’s annual business conference. CTW’s education and tradeshow explore and showcase new products, technologies and industry trends that are impacting business and driving change in the coffee service industry....
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10/19/2018
PHILADELPHIA -- AMI Entertainment has announced the latest in its series of promotional giveaway contests. This one, designed in cooperation with the heavy metal band Disturbed, offers patrons of its digital downloading jukeboxes the opportunity to win an autographed guitar from Disturbed. The contest celebrates the release of Disturbed's seventh studio album, Evolution. The contest starts on Oct. 19th, the same day as the album release. Music fans can enter the contest using the AMI Music app, available...
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10/18/2018
Micromarkets. In the past few years this new retail model has grown up to become a big winner for our industry. This is a situation where everyone wins. Very briefly, for example (since we are all familiar with the benefits of micromarkets): (1) Operators win: We can drive higher sales with a smaller investment in fixed assets. (2) Our clients win: Their employees, visitors or guests have access to a wider array of products in what is a much more attractive and interesting shopping venue. (3) Our shopper...
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10/11/2018
LOOK, NO HANDS! 3D Vending’s Paul Cueman is a pioneer operator of Vagabond and Automated Merchandising Systems’ AMS Touchless vending machine. Located on an Army Reserve base where soldiers often have only their smartphones in hand, the vender has no bill validators, coin mechanisms or credit card readers. It replaces them – and the product selection system – with the vīv platform. Paul Cueman founded 3D Vending, based in Riverside, CA, in 2009 with three machines and a dream when the rece...
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10/8/2018
Foley Foodservice , a vending, micromarket and OCS operator based in Norwood, MA, began installing PayRange ’s cashless payment technology in 2015. The operation now has nearly 3,000 vending machines equipped with the service. PayRange technology permits a vending transaction to be handled entirely through the patron's smartphone and its cellular network. The vender does not need to be connected to a wireless network; the exchange of data with the machine is handled by the smartphone's own Bluetooth per...
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10/8/2018
Seven Day Vending was founded in 1986 by Walter Settles, the grandfather-in-law of its present owner, Richard Royer. Royer joined the company just before the onset of the Great Recession that began in 2008. He started as a route driver, then became a route supervisor and technician, and, four years ago, general manager. He bought the company early in 2017. "In 2008-2009, our sales slumped," Royer recalled. "We set out to learn what our customers were asking of us, rather than just what we wanted to prov...
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10/4/2018
DES MOINES, IA — U-Select-It Inc. recently hosted an on-site training event for members of the National Association of Blind Merchants at USI's corporate headquarters here. It was held in conjunction with NABM's two-day Training for Midwest States conference on September 20-21, which included state-specific updates, a briefing from the Rehabilitation Services Administration, a discussion on opportunities for Business Enterprise Program vendors in inmate commissaries and a report from the National C...
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10/1/2018
PLANO, TX -- Keurig Dr Pepper has announced its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Core Nutrition LLC. Core produces Core Hydration, a premium, nutrient-enhanced bottled water, and Core Organic, a USDA-certified organic enhanced fruit hydration. Both currently are distributed by KDP, of which Core has been an allied brand since 2016. Core was founded in 2015, and has been a KDP allied brand since 2016. KDP presently manages about two-thirds of Core's U.S. distribution. The company reports that ...
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