They’re not just taking up store space. Retailers say the machines interfere with remodeling plans and expose them to potential safety hazards and liabilities. Some kiosks are hardwired into stores’ electrical systems. Outdoor machines are bolted into the concrete foundations and contain a coolant that is supposed to be disposed of in an environmentally safe manner

Contain coolant? Were these machines internally air conditioned???

More or less, yes. So they have refrigerant and not coolant.

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There are appliance disposal companies who will recover any refrigerant and haul away any piece of large equipment for scrap. It would probably cost about $500 to get rid of a redbox.

If it’s bolted to the concrete or wired directly maybe another $500.

Cost of doing business in my opinion.

The one outside my local right-aid was hit by a car about 2 years ago. It’s still sitting there all mangled and sad looking.

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Coool. I wanna see

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On one hand, all they might have to do is tell people “if you want one, come and get it” and that problem would be sort of solved. But then for every one that gets turned into something useful, probably 20 of them will be left in a barn or something, not really solving the problem…

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The ones in New York should get turned into Red Vox machines

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