Coinstar: Why all the power?

Monday, May 06 2002 @ 10:32 PM EDT

Contributed by: Anonymous

Attention Kasn N Kerry shoppers here's another uncommonly known tid bit about your favorite grocery store.....

After taking a very(I mean very)close look at the KnK coinstar machines,(the machines that count your coins for you that make a whopping 8 cents on the dollar),I have found a very intersting thing. The coinstar first has a direct phone line to the corporate office. In this little machine whose only task is to count coins is also a very large motherboard which houses amazing quadruple pentium 3's. Thats right four pentium 3s all to count your precious change. The cost for this amazing machine? The tech that I spoke to happened to through out a number of more than 10 thousand dollars. Kind of over kill to count change huh? In this writer's opinion you should count your own change. But then again who could resist 4 pentium 3's doing it for you!

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