More cashless vending machines rolling out
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Making it easier than ever for Americans to spend their money, and creating new business for credit and debit card companies, three of the biggest snack and soda makers are rolling out more vending machines that take plastic.
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.  Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday.
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By Lisa P. White, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Sep. 22--BELLEVILLE -- The city's two new automated trash trucks are scheduled to start making the rounds through some of the newer subdivisions the week of Nov. 6.
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Encouraged by consumer's willingness to use self-checkout scanners, stores are testing new innovations to add service and cut costs. -The Washington Post
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School vending machines are stocked with fewer high-calorie soft drinks today because some states have banned the sale of sodas on campus and the beverage industry is phasing in healthier drinks, according to an industry report.
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IBM took another step in its plan to turn interactive kiosks into multipurpose machines, announcing new models with more user-friendly features and additional management technologies.
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Circuit City this week bucked the trend of retailers opting for Windows-based point-of-sale systems by announcing plans to migrate to Linux-based IBM cash registers at its 600 stores.
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Motorola launched a pilot program in the United States in which it will sell phones and accessories via vending machines it calls "robotic stores." Dubbed Instantmoto, the machines will sell about 30 products, including unlocked phones like the RAZR and Motorola Q.
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Online banking service provider CheckFree Corp. is rolling out technology that could mean consumers will no longer have to go to a bank branch to deposit checks.
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The aisles are stocked with goodies that don't involve MySpace.
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Millions of bank customers have been left without money after cash machines broke down.
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The first vending machines to sell music downloads will be introduced in London next month as Britons continue to turn their backs on traditional methods of buying singles.
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By RICK CALLAHAN EVANSVILLE, Ind. - With earthshaking thuds, a plastic-stamping machine hammers a sheet of hot plastic into king-size drinking cups destined to quench travelers' thirst for soda at the nation's convenience stores.
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Nearly 40 million people don't have traditional checking accounts, and the retailing giant is ready to serve that untapped financial market
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SCAGGSVILLE, Md. -- Stephanie Cerneck doesn't go through the checkout line at her supermarket anymore. Or even the self-checkout line. She uses a personal scanner offered by the Bloom grocery store near her home, scanning each item as she takes it off the shelf and bagging as she shops. When she's...
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''Cash-advance'' shops are treading where other small-business lenders fear to go.
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Businesses buying more machines as consumer growth slows