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Coca-Cola settles dispute with vending machine firm

The Columbian
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ATLANTA — Atlanta-based Coca-Cola and a company that makes it possible for consumers to use a debit or credit to buy a vending machine beverage have settled a dispute over nearly $1 million in fees collected from the machines.

Coca-Cola Refreshments USA Inc. and USA Technologies Inc. said they have resolved the billing dispute but did not provide details.

In a federal lawsuit filed in August in Atlanta, CCR, the U.S. bottling and fountain operations arm of Coca-Cola, said Malvern, Pa.-based USA Technologies failed to disconnect its card-reading devices on Coke vending machines and continued to collect monthly fees as if it were still servicing the devices and processing transactions.

USA Technologies received 5 percent of a vending machine’s monthly proceeds as a service fee and then “a percentage” for processing transactions after soft drinks were purchased, according to the suit. The remainder of the “cash-free revenue” was turned over to CCR, the suit said.

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