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.

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 ...

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.) ...

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 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 ...

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.