There are about 7 million vending machines in America. And what do the vast majority of them sell? Sodas and sodium- or sugar-heavy snacks (which aren’t good for you), packaged in plastic or PET and ...

Whether you call them "skill games" or "gray machines," the devices resembling slot machines with cash payouts and proliferating in stores and clubs across Kentucky are certain to be the subject of at ...

A Fraternal Order of Police sticker is seen on a Burning Barrel game machine by Pace-O-Matic set up at Fraternal Order of Police post 59 in Georgetown, Ky., Tuesday, January 20 2022. All Burning ...

Some call them gray machines, and others call them games of skill. The "Burning Barrel" brand, by Georgia-based game company Pace-O-Matic, has popped up in convenience stores and other businesses in ...

You get the urge for a midnight mousse, so you amble down to the Pix-O-Matic all-night dessert vending machines. You’re inserting a credit card when you get the feeling that somebody’s watching. There ...