Gold with your snickers.

• Position: Business - New technologies in vending machines - Brief article

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At upscale Canadian nightspots, vending machines with flatirons let women defrizz their hair. Quiksilver board shorts and bikinis are sold in vending machines at hotels. And in Abu Dhabi, capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, a luxury hotel has a machine that dispenses gold bars and coins at more than $1,000 an ounce. Souped-up vending machines are popping up everywhere. They are relatively late in coming to the U.S., but Dr Pepper and Baby Ruth are already...