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.) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Brands that are typically stocked in vending machines - Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestlé for example - are facing the same challenges and said they are raising prices on the consumer site to offset ...