State Data Report
Vending machine locations in Hawaii: what the record shows
Every venue in this dataset is reachable by road from another. Hawaii is the one state where that is false, and no figure in the record accounts for it.
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State Data Report
Vending machine locations in Idaho: the 2026 record
Idaho is not an empty state with full neighbours. It is the middle of the largest unworked area in the dataset — 1,300 miles of blank between the Pacific and the Plains.
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Vending machine locations in Illinois, by the numbers
Peru and Hillsboro are the same venue category in the same state signed in the same fortnight. On captive time one is ten times the other.
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Vending machine locations in Indiana: the 2026 record
Delaware is small. Colorado sits in a blank region. Indiana is neither — it is a large state ringed by activity that stopped at the border.
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Vending machine locations in Iowa: the 2026 record
Iowa sits on the boundary between the worked Midwest and the blank plains. Wisconsin has seven placements; Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota have none.
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Vending machine locations in Kansas, by the numbers
Eleven of the twelve placements at 50% of net are shops, malls and forecourts. The twelfth is a family entertainment centre in Lawrence, and it is the most interesting line in the record.
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Vending machine locations in Kentucky, by the numbers
Kentucky is the only state with four or more placements where every share is the same number. It is also the state whose venues are consistently the smallest.
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Vending machine locations in Louisiana, by the numbers
Slidell is the clearest case in the dataset of a strong venue that gained nothing for being strong. One listing, well above its type, on standard terms.
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Vending machine locations in Maine, by the numbers
Half of Maine’s record converts into captive time. The other half is the only venue of its kind here, with no published visit length to convert it by.
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Vending machine locations in Maryland, by the numbers
Ocean City is the clearest case in the dataset of visitor counts and captive time pulling in opposite directions. More people, less exposure.
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Vending machine locations in Massachusetts, by the numbers
If captive time set the price, Tyngsborough would be the best-paid venue in the dataset. It is the worst-paid. That is the finding.
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Vending machine locations in Michigan, by the numbers
Michigan is a three-line dataset that behaves like the eighty-seven-line one. Its bowling alley came out lowest, as bowling alleys do everywhere here.
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Vending machine locations in Minnesota: the empty row
Wisconsin has seven signed venues. Minnesota, Iowa and both Dakotas have none between them. That border is the sharpest in the dataset.
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Vending machine locations in Mississippi, by the numbers
Everywhere else in this dataset, venue strength and revenue share come apart. In Mississippi they moved together — once, at Hattiesburg.
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Vending machine locations in Missouri, by the numbers
Twenty-one states have no placement at all. Missouri has one, and it is the only state whose entire record carries no traffic figure.
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Vending machine locations in Montana: the empty west
The record’s blank spaces are not scattered. They form a single block from Oregon to Minnesota and down to New Mexico, and Montana sits inside it.
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Vending machine locations in Nebraska: the Kansas line
An empty row is usually read against a national average. Nebraska’s nearest comparison is an outlier, which makes the average the wrong reference.
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Vending machine locations in Nevada: reading California
When a state has no data, the usual advice is to look next door. Nevada’s neighbour has the record’s largest set of listings and its biggest gaps.
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Vending machine locations in New Hampshire, by the numbers
A listing becomes unmeasurable in two ways: no traffic reported, or no published visit length for its category. New Hampshire has one of each.
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Vending machine locations in New Jersey, by the numbers
Three visitors a day at one venue, seven hundred at another, in the same state and the same month. None of the three is measurable.
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Vending machine locations in New Mexico: the I-40 gap
The dataset’s highest-traffic venues are forecourts and concourses. New Mexico has two interstates crossing at Albuquerque and not one listing on either.
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Vending machine locations in New York, by the numbers
Most states repeat themselves. New York repeats nothing: six venues, six categories, three kinds of machine and one convertible listing.
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Vending machine locations in North Carolina, by the numbers
A single data point can be the worst in a dataset on two measures at once. North Carolina’s is, and it is also unmeasurable.
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Vending machine locations in North Dakota: rules, no data
Across the dataset, how hard a state regulates a machine has no relationship to how many machines it has. North Dakota is the extreme case.
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Vending machine locations in Oklahoma, by the numbers
Every state record in this series is unusual in some way. Oklahoma’s is unusual for being exactly average, which makes it the best single reference here.
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Vending machine locations in Oregon: the coastal gap
Oregon is the best-connected empty state in the West on paper and one of the worst in practice. Eight placements next door, none of them close.
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Vending machine locations in Pennsylvania, by the numbers
The dataset’s biggest number is also its least usable. Export reports 1,100 visitors a day in a category of one, with nothing to convert it by.
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Vending machine locations in Rhode Island: the New England gap
Rhode Island is the most densely populated state in New England and one of its two blank rows. Density is not what the record tracks.
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Vending machine locations in South Carolina, by the numbers
Two premium trampoline parks thirty miles apart report exactly 150,000 visitors a year each. Either a coincidence or an estimate travelling between listings.
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Vending machine locations in South Dakota: six blanks
Most empty states have at least one active neighbour. South Dakota has six neighbours and six blank rows, which is as isolated as this dataset gets.
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Vending machine locations in Tennessee, by the numbers
Tennessee reports every number the record asks for and still produces no position on any table. The gap is in the categories, not the listings.
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Vending machine locations in Texas, by the numbers
Texas holds the sharpest disagreement in this dataset. One venue sits third on footfall, near the bottom on captive time, and at the top of the share range.
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Vending machine locations in Utah: the populous blank
Three states in this record have six bordering states and no placement among them. Utah is by far the most populous of the three.
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Vending machine locations in Vermont: near but unusable
Proximity is not the same as usefulness. Vermont’s closest comparison is a category of one, with no visit length and nothing to rank it against.
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Vending machine locations in Virginia, by the numbers
Two Virginia listings, nine times apart on traffic, and the conversion drops the big one. The state’s ranking entry is the venue nobody would pick.
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Vending machine locations in Washington, by the numbers
A one-row state record is usually a dead end. Washington’s row carries every field the dataset uses, and the nearest other placement is 700 miles away.
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Vending machine locations in West Virginia, by the numbers
An empty state is usually an isolated one. West Virginia is the exception — the nearest signed venue is across a river, and most of the neighbourhood can be ranked.
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Vending machine locations in Wisconsin, by the numbers
The most complete state record in the file is not the most rankable one. Breadth of venue type is what costs Wisconsin its conversions.
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Vending machine locations in Wyoming, by the numbers
Seven states, roughly 16 million people, not one signed venue between them. Wyoming sits in the middle of the largest blank area in the record.
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Vending machine locations in Florida, by the numbers
A Miami deli and a Cape Canaveral rage room are both in this dataset. One sees 33 times the traffic of the other, and takes a bigger share of each sale.
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Best vending machine locator in Alabama, by the numbers
A state with one placement is not a market you can measure. It is a single reading — and this one happens to sit well above the national median for its venue type.
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Best vending machine locator in Arkansas, by the numbers
Two listings, 180 miles apart, ten points apart on share. Arkansas is the smallest dataset in which the national pattern is visible on its own.
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Best vending machine locator in Ohio, by the numbers
Ohio’s busiest placement reports 990 visitors a day and sells into 58 visitor-hours. A bowling alley a fifth that size sells into 567.
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Vending machine locations by state
We counted every signed placement by state, then tested whether the state predicts anything. It does not. Venue category sets the share; the state sets only the paperwork.
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Vending machine locations in Alaska: what the record shows
Twenty-one states have no placement in the data. Alaska is the only one, with Hawaii, where a locator has also said outright that it does not go there.
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Vending machine locations in Arizona: what the record shows
Twenty-one states show nothing in the data. Arizona is the largest of them by population, which makes its blank row the hardest one to explain away.
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Vending machine locations in California, by the numbers
Seven placements make California a leader on volume and a laggard on evidence: more than half its venues report no traffic at all, against 21% nationally.
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Vending machine locations in Colorado: the 2026 record
Colorado’s zero is not an isolated one. Six contiguous interior-west states show nothing between them, which looks less like a state verdict than an unworked region.
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Vending machine locations in Connecticut, by the numbers
One listing, fully reported, sitting in the top tier of its venue type — and a region around it that six states share seven placements between them.
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Vending machine locations in Delaware: the 2026 record
Most blank states sit inside blank regions. Delaware does not — seven placements ring it from three directions, which makes its zero a different kind of zero.
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Vending machine locations in Georgia, by the numbers
Four venues, four cotton candy machines, and one of them generating more captive time than the median family entertainment centre that tops the national ranking.
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Attractions & Data Analysis
How much foot traffic does a vending machine need? What 69 venues report
Foot traffic gets a venue onto the shortlist. Visit length, the price of what the machine sells and the venue’s share decide whether it pays.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Trampoline park vending machines: what 7 signed parks report
A trampoline park visit is planned at 90 minutes, but the most active children spend only about 20 of them jumping; the rest is waiting time.
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Attractions & Data Data study
Vending machine location revenue share by venue type: data from 87 listings
Every open listing in one vending marketplace, put in one table. The share a venue asks follows what kind of venue it is, not how busy it is.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machine amusement park deals: where small parks beat chains
Chain parks sell their own food. The opening for an outside machine is the independent regional park, and its calendar matters more than its turnstile count.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machine campground and RV park placements: season, power, rules
Campers stay for nights rather than minutes, a rare thing among vending venues. The catch is a short season and a building that may go cold in November.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machines at haunted houses: the seasonal placement math
A haunted attraction does a year’s business in a few weeks. Whether a machine there pays depends on how many Octobers its contract catches.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
A vending machine at an ice rink: the math on 400,000 visitors a year
The largest venue in the marketplace is a Pennsylvania ice rink; its visitor count is the easy part, while the hockey schedule and the machine’s spot are harder.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machine laser tag and go-kart placements: work the wait between heats
Session venues sell play in short, scheduled blocks. The sales are in the minutes between those blocks, and in knowing where the next group stands.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machines at mini golf courses: the indoor and outdoor numbers
An indoor course spreads its visitors across 12 months; an outdoor course in Maine gets about 165 warm days. The placement fee runs all year either way.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machines at rage rooms and axe throwing venues, by the numbers
Short booked sessions and small crowds make smash venues a hard host. League nights at axe throwing venues make the stronger case.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
A vending machine at a roller rink: what a 35,000-visitor rink supports
A roller rink’s own counter sets the terms: the machine that earns its spot sells something the snack bar does not, on the nights the rink is full.
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Sports & Recreation Ranking
Vending machines for sports facilities: 9 venue types ranked by wait time
Headcount gets a sports facility onto the list, but the minutes a parent spends on a bench decide whether the machine beside it sells.
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Attractions & Data Venue File
Vending machines in escape rooms: what fits the hour around the game
The hour inside the room sells nothing. The minutes before the game and after the team photo are the window a machine has to fit.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
A vending machine in a gymnastics gym: what the parent wait is worth
The smallest venue in the marketplace is a gymnastics gym, yet gyms offer some of the longest parent waits, so the class schedule is the better guide.
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Attractions & Data Ranking
Best vending machine locations: where to put a vending machine, ranked
Most lists of vending locations rank by assertion; this one multiplies venue-reported traffic by published visit lengths and prints the sample size behind every row.
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Attractions & Data Rules
How to find vending machine locations: a 6-step method by venue type
Most location advice stops at finding busy places; this method starts with the venue types that sign, then the public directories that list every one near you.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
Vending machines in climbing gyms: what to stock and where to put it
Nearly 700 U.S. climbing gyms already sell memberships, day passes and gear, so a machine earns floor space only by covering what the desk does not.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
YMCA vending machines and city rec center bids: who decides, on what terms
A city rec center buys vending through a scored public solicitation, while a YMCA is an independent nonprofit that can decide in a single meeting.
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Attractions & Data Rules
Vending machine placement inside a venue: 7 rules for the spot that sells
The busiest spot in a building is rarely the one that sells. Seven tests, with the code measurements behind them, for finding the spot that does.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
Vending machines at batting cages and driving ranges: tokens, buckets, seasons
Customers at a cage or range pay a machine before they swing, a habit that sells the pitch, while the calendar decides whether the numbers work.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
A vending machine at an indoor soccer facility: league nights and game days
Indoor soccer drew a record 6.6 million players in 2025, and a facility’s split between adult league nights and youth game days decides what its machine should sell.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
Vending machines at pickleball facilities: the court-hour math
Indoor clubs sell court time by the hour, and courts times hours times four players gives the traffic number most pitches to a club skip.
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Sports & Recreation Venue File
Vending machines at swim schools and dance studios: the enrollment math
Lesson venues see the same families every week, half an hour at a time. The number that decides a machine is filled lesson slots, not enrollment.
