• Alicia Lavay

      How Alicia Lavay built, reinvented, and sold Vending Times after 60 years of industry evolution If you’ve been in convenience services for more than a minute, you know the name Vending Times. For decades, it landed in mailboxes 12 times a year — sometimes more than 150 pages thick! — chronicling the people, products, and progress of vending, office coffee service, bulk vending, music and games, and later, micro markets. Behind much of that story stood Alicia [read more]

    Published On: March 31, 2026Categories: Operator StoriesTags: ,
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