From the department of awesome overseas ideas is this store, which isn’t so much a store but a massive vending machine. This is the UNIQLO store in Tokyo and the products for sale are just T-shirts ...

Apple has Siri. Amazon has Alexa. This summer Tom Murn will have Vicki, a vending machine endowed with artificial intelligence that will be popping up in college cafeterias, drugstores, hospital ...

Thomas Murn nearly went bust in 1991, his first year in the vending machine business, when he had to move his Pepsi machines from the lobby to the laundry room of a New York City housing complex.

The workerless store popped up on the corner of Collins and Spencer St in the CBD recently, offering food, drinks and snacks via vending machines only. Speaking to the Herald Sun the convenience chain ...