BENSALEM, Pa. — Forget the clanging of coins. It’s more the sounds of silence at the vending machines in area schools these days. Many students aren’t buying the healthy snacks, fruit juices and water ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Begging your parents for quarters so that you can purchase candy from the vending machine is a quintessential childhood experience. Candy has ...

Elissa Ely is a psychiatrist. We all have our ways of assessing the world; the uncharitable might call them our quirks. One way I assess a hospital is by its vending machines. Of course, this is ...

Candy machines once offered much more variety. Office hallways, bus stations, bowling alleys, and laundromats stocked bars that barely survived past the 1970s or 1980s. A few disappeared due to poor ...

At lunchtime, the Cougareat fills up fast and students get impatient waiting for their food. Some students have figured out a trick to skip the wait in the Wilkinson Student Center: the vending ...

Like many Americans, 21-year-old Jaime Ibanez is always looking for new ways to make money. In high school, he sold snacks to his friends, which netted him around $5,000 all told. After he graduated ...