Blockbuster "busted"?

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Originally Posted by atomik kinder

According to THIS a Rebox holds 70 new movie releases titles. Not exactly sure if that means 70 different movies or & 70 individual discs of the new releases. But a machine can hold 500 discs. That is quite a few. There are over 8,000 Redbox locations.

Yeah, Rebox must be doing poorly, why else would there be more and more popping up in more and more locations. They must be doing so poorly infact that the grocery store that I most often shop installed another machine. One was just installed a couple weeks ago two blocks from my house.

I am not saying that Rebox is going to make Blockbuster go out of business, but it could help. I wouldn't be sad if Blockbuster disappeared. They are the main reason that all the GOOD video stores went out of business

would you be satisfied only renting from a machine, or do you supplement with B&M/online rentals?

I wonder if location has more to do with their business then anything considering i live in a city of over 300,000 people and we have 5 redboxes, all over 30 minutes away one way. We have bad weather, a depressed economy even before recent events , no real good clubs or bars, not a whole lot to do in general. So movie stores get a lot of business. I just don't see how a redbox differs much from the grocery store rental places we already had with cheap rentals, except they manage to eliminate human interaction and jobs.