Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
Amazon discontinued its Amazon One palm-payment system in January 2026, removing every palm reader by 3 June and citing low adoption. Biometric checkout in unattended retail is not dead — it is spl...
The vending machine industry looks flat — around 5% annual growth. But the smart, connected slice grows 11–18%, industrial vending grows 10%, and Asia-Pacific intelligent vending grows 16%. The gro...
Vending machines are no longer bought off a catalog page. Future Market Insights says the intelligent vending market is moving toward application-specific procurement rather than commodity purchasi...
A small wall-mounted vending machine is nearly impossible to find off the shelf, and the reason is not demand. It is that a wall-mount machine's useful size is set by the product going into it — a ...
A hot food vending machine is a miniature automated restaurant: it refrigerates a ready-made meal, heats it on demand with microwave, convection, infrared or a hybrid cycle, and dispenses it in abo...
A vending machine's sales report says what sold, not how many people walked past without buying. That missing number is foot traffic, and the usual way to measure it is a camera, which you cannot p...
