Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
Australia runs 4.7 vending machines per 1,000 people against Japan's 31.5 — a 6.7× density gap, or one machine for every 213 Australians versus one for every 32 Japanese. That is not a weak market;...
W.W. Grainger paid $210 million for Adroit Worldwide Media's computer-vision inventory technology in August 2026. It didn't buy vending machines. It bought the layer that tracks who took what — the...
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 ...
