Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
Smart coolers just became a primary operating format — 33.5% of the equipment operators deploy, with more than half running them. But the same data set shows why open-grab trust formats stall in in...
UK builders' merchants are trialling 24/7 click & collect lockers at flagship branches. With 75%+ of merchant branches already offering click & collect and 67% of branch managers expecting C&C sale...
Last-mile delivery is 53% of total shipping cost, up from 41% in 2018. Parcel lockers cut that cost by 50–55% by turning one failed-stop-per-package into many-packages-per-stop. The smart parcel lo...
Vending is already 71% cashless, and cashless systems are 63.4% of payment demand in 2026. But 'cashless' is not one thing — it is three rails with three cost structures. Card runs through an MDB t...
The Telegraph reports vending operators earning 40–50% returns versus 10–15% from broad index funds. The returns are real — but they belong to operators with cashless, connected, purpose-built mach...
The self-service kiosk market grows from $14.52 billion in 2025 to $16.24 billion in 2026 — an 11.84% CAGR (Mordor Intelligence). 66% of consumers now prefer self-service. Here's why off-the-shelf ...
