On Tuesday 29 October 2013 09:56 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On 2013-10-29, Tim Watts wrote:
On Tuesday 29 October 2013 09:27 Mike Tomlinson wrote in uk.d-i-y:

In article , polygonum
writes

The thing that got me about Coinstar was that they offer to send the
money to a charity. And still charge almost exactly the same amount.

How do you think they pay for the machines, the staff to service and
empty them, and the rent payable to the store?


The store could cover those costs (and own the machine) to increase
footfall which is an accepted marketing technique.

They *could*, but why should they?

Which bit of "increase footfall" passed you by?



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