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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 8024080, member: 105098&quot;]vending still takes coins? most machines I see have bill acceptors and it&#039;s $1.00 or more per product. tolls are fast pass cards that deduct from a bank account or you pay a bill instead of digging for coin, I can&#039;t think of many things anymore that take coins it&#039;s been pretty phased out by inflation. also I&#039;m thinking the newer machines use optical sensors to detect acceptable composition, size and weight, against a program. pretty sure a software update would be the only change except for old machines. Heck I only know of 1 payphone within 20 miles of my house, no newspaper boxes anywhere anymore, and walmart maybe has a soda machine or a toy crane in the entrance along with one of the horse/rocket rides. Seems crazy at this point to drag it on for the old, old tech when the new tech of the last 20 years likely has methods to adjust in the software what coins it will accept. I think globally it&#039;s a $25 billion dollar industry, with most of it in Japan and their machines don&#039;t take U.S. composition coins, so the ability to adjust exists, I think I read there&#039;s about 5 million coin operated machines around the U.S. in total still and accounts for $5-$7 billion dollars a year.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mean heck they didn&#039;t have much issue transitioning to dollar bills and dollar coins right? Most machines won&#039;t take pennies now either, not worth the space inside the machines. If they could shut down cents, they could shut down nickels completely also.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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