Requiem for the Newspaper Vending Machine
Can you guess how many U.S. sidewalk newspaper boxes The New York Times still operates?
There are a couple of fun U.S. tidbits in Toronto Globe and Mail media writer James Bradshaw’s weekend piece about the current state of coin-operated newspaper vending machines.
One is that when sidewalk demand for boxes was at its highest, the North American manufacturing end was dominated by a company in Shiner, Texas called Kaspar Wire Works. The other is that The New York Times street box imprint is currently down to almost nothing:
The New York Times has only 39 coin-operated vending boxes left across the entire United States – 36 in western states, three in Georgia and none in New York – that sell “very few newspapers,” a spokesperson said.
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