Quote:
Originally Posted by Daradon
Apparently the new coins are giving vending machines quite a bit of trouble (even though the government said they shouldn't).
Seems like every time we change our money, business got to invest more time or money just to adapt.
|
Quote:
Ottawa may be saving money with the new loonies and toonies, but the Toronto Parking Authority says it will cost more than C$1 million to recalibrate the city’s 3,000 parking meters, about C$345 per machine. And Calgary says it’s budgeted over C$30,000 to convert its meters.
Vending-machine operators, not surprisingly, are not pleased, either.
The Canada Gazette, the government’s official newsletter, estimated earlier this year that it’ll cost the vending industry C$40 million to recalibrate what it calls “coin-acceptance equipment.” Canadian media are already carrying reports of vending-machine abuse as the new coins keep returning to the slot at the bottom of machines.
|
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new...nes-2012-05-01
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
|