Gawking in Traffic - Interactions… designed or not 

For those who haven’t seen one, this is a DVD rental machine - known as “Redbox.” You go anytime of day and rent DVDs with a credit card for a dollar a day (or for FREE! see: insideredbox.com). They put them in places like grocery stores and McDonald’s. One of it’s HUGE advantages as a vending machine, especially for college towns, is that it’s available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

Well, unless of course it’s located in front of the Shop Rite in Millburn, NJ. That Shop Rite closes at 8:00pm (which is weird in and of itself). But it’s not that the Redbox machine is located inside the store or anything - it’s just that they padlock about a million shopping carts RIGHT IN FRONT of the machine!

Hilarious.

Granted, you can still get to the machine. But it’s hardly inviting. Seems Redbox didn’t really research this location out to intensely.

Note: they’re totally boxing out the Pepsi machine, too. That’s just wrong.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pm and is filed under distracted interactions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.