For stock quotes and links to company data, enter stock symbol and click submit. But the most important developments in automated teller machines are the new uses banks continue to find for what once were just cash-dispensing boxes. Stamp-dispensing ATMs have been around awhile. Wells Fargo sells ski lift tickets through some of its machines.
Some machines sell pre-paid phone time.
First Union ATM customers may see advertisements for bank products and services tailored to fit them. After the transaction is complete but before the ATM card is returned, the machine's screen may flash a message telling the user she's been preapproved for a platinum credit card, and asking her if she wants to accept. Bank consultant Bert Ely said banks have to balance carefully their desire to advertise products and their customers' desire to get through an ATM transaction as quickly as possible. Some sites are nice to visit and you can do what you want to do pretty quickly. Others you have to plow through a lot of stuff to do what you want to do.