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
Capitalism never cleans up it’s own messes
We call those externalities, the taxpayers will handle them if we ignore them long enough that they become a crisis
This should have been settled in bankruptcy court as part of business wind down before anyone got a penny of assets divided proceeds. When it’s not then another legal battle is required to get the company to do what it should have. Such a waste of time and needless burden for society. Unfortunately, regulatory capture and representative funding capture is almost total so no laws will be passed to change it.
Not many people know this, but the RedBoxes are free. You can just take them.
I have 291 RedBoxes in my yard.
I kinda want one of these. I could load it up with my collection. It’d be awesome. I can imagine my SO’s blood boiling already at the sight of “more useless junk”!
And what do you need an electrician for? Turn off power, open a panel, and disconnect the wires. Snip snip. Frankly, I’m surprised a dedicated switch/breaker for a 3rd party kiosk isn’t mandatory.
If only I had the space …
And what do you need an electrician for?
lol, OSHA compliance. WalMart can’t have Cletus from receiving just opening 110 boxes.
Cletus from receiving
You don’t need Cletus from receiving to do it. You just need to uh, suggest, to a certain portion of their clientele that a Redbox MIGHT have copper in it and boy it’d be a shame if it were to vanish, and I’m sure nature will take care of the rest.
Weeeelllllll… Yeah I guess you have a good point. If something did happen, finger pointing starts.
Gestures at wires
But it’s right there! I need a 1-day OSHA permit just to yank crap out!
Our wives must know each other. Me recently: it’s not useless junk! It’s a CD tower NAS with 10 base t token ring capability! The guy who ran a bbs in my local calling area had one that served up Warez in 1997! I was a very early adopter of mp3. I used the original program released by the fraunhoeffer Institute to rip my friend’s metallica bootlegs and upload them for extra leech credits. It would take half a day to encode 128kbps mp3 files on my non-mmx cyrix 6x86, and I could only store 1 CD worth of mp3s at a time on my 800mb hard drive. Besides, I got a really good deal on it!
You telling me these boxes are basically free for the taking?
Theyve been hanging around almost long enough for dvd nostalgia to set in.
Maybe fill up a barn and sit on them for a few more years
Contain coolant? Were these machines internally air conditioned???
