Perhaps they had been chewed by rats along the way. That's very, very common. All the Coke machines do have insulation inside of them as the way to keep the cooling inside of the machines.

King, Charles, III, and Das Narayandas. "Coca-Cola's New Vending Machine (A): Pricing To Capture Value, or Not?" Harvard Business School Case 500-068, February 2000. (Revised December 2000.) ...

Nothing says ‘I Love You’ like an old vending machine, and if it is a restored and working vintage Vendo V-80 cola dispenser then you have yourself a winner. [Jan Cumps] from Belgium was ...

NEW YORK - A Coca-Cola exec at the 2011 Mobile Marketing Forum discussed the company's SMS-enabled vending machines that let consumers pay for beverages using their mobile devices. Doug Busk, mobile ...

Coca-Cola believes the service will be a hit with people who routinely buy drinks at outdoor vending machines, and has attained the initial target of having 100,000 subscribers by the end of the year.

Many couples may have recently encountered an invisible Coca-Cola vending machine, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday. For Valentine's Day this year, Coca-Cola installed a special vending machine ...

Coca-Cola is availing itself of the growing trend toward Wi-Fi use by smartphone owners with a new strategy to enable wireless connectivity through its branded vending machines. The Wi-Fi-enabled ...

People search the Internet and antique stores and ... of the many items in their Coca-Cola memorabilia collection recently in Junction City, such as their Coke machine, which is still in working ...