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Most teens crave a little snack to make it through the day, but many think vending machine prices at their schools are too high. Some young entrepreneurs have tried to capitalize on this idea by ...

Now they’ve gone and done it: Even the prices of office snacks have gone up. Consumers have recently been bombarded with price spikes for products ranging from gasoline at the pumps to bananas at ...

A New York nonprofit has launched a vending machine full of fresh groceries aiming at combating food insecurity.

Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, vending machine prices may make customers holler. Inflation and supply chain issues mean snacks and soda pop are fetching 25 cents to 75 cents more than they ...