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  • 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: ,
  • Ozempic is Quietly Disrupting Snack Sales

    Ozempic Is Quietly Disrupting Snack Sales — What Vending Operators Need to Know

    June 23, 2025

  • Generational Snacking Trends from survey by Kellanova

    Generational Snacking Preferences, According to Kellanova’s Latest Study

    June 20, 2025

  • Operators React to the Industry-Shaking 365 Cantaloupe Merger

    Operators React to the Industry-Shaking 365 Cantaloupe Merger

    June 19, 2025

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    Necta Launches BARISTA 500 and 600 Pro Touch

    June 18, 2025

  • 2025 NAMA Fly-In Advocacy in Action for the Convenience Services Industry

    2025 NAMA Fly-In: Advocacy in Action for the Convenience Services Industry

    June 17, 2025

  • 365 Retail Markets to Acquire Cantaloupe

    Cantaloupe, Inc. Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by 365 Retail Markets

    June 16, 2025

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