Stories, case studies and lessons from designing and manufacturing custom vending machines, kiosks and PPE lockers — straight from the KioskForce workshop.
Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute project 2.1 million unfilled US manufacturing jobs by 2030 — a skills gap tied to roughly $1 trillion in lost output. You can't hire your way out of it. Ind...
Refrigerated vending machines are being forced off R134a in 2026 — a refrigerant with a global-warming potential of 1,430. The US AIM Act, the EU F-gas Regulation 2024/573, and the Kigali Amendment...
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...
