Comments on: If a video store closes and nobody cares, does it still count?

By: girlofwords

girlofwords — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:01:29 +0000

I remember someone telling me that … It probably was you. I didn’t know that until then because I’d only seen Redbox outside McDonald’s (in Louisville, no less). I thought it was a McDonald’s thing for a while.

By: Economic Friction

Economic Friction — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:00:30 +0000

RedBox is brought to you by the friends at CoinStar. No shit.

By: mommabl

mommabl — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:51:12 +0000

Jacque, our Walmart has a Redbox inside the Walmart on the grocery side. I’ve never used it but have seen people in front of it most times I’m there. I’m like you. On Demand is the best way for me.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:51:01 +0000

The video store I used to work at was a mom-and-pop, well, a pop operation. I haven’t been by where one of the two locations was, but the one I worked at most often is closed now. Its one big selling point above the Blockbusters of the world was that it had a back room. Also, they tended to hold on to VHS titles longer, so for a while they had the boost of people who either didn’t have a player or didn’t want kids’ movies in a format where grubby hands could ruin the movie.

By: girlofwords

girlofwords — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:50:04 +0000

Hahahaha. I know if I walked by a Redbox more, I’d probably rent more movies.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:48:44 +0000

Jacque: We only rent on those odd nights that we’re both actually home and looking for something to occupy our time. It helps that although the Redbox is conveniently located inside Giant it isn’t near the doors. I rarely walk past it and don’t think about it.

By: girlofwords

girlofwords — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:11:28 +0000

Michelle: I’m really bad about the “impuluse buy” so I’m sure if I’d rent something, it would be because I was passing the Redbox on my way out of the store and thought, “Oh, cool. And it’s a dollar.”

By: girlofwords

girlofwords — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:10:48 +0000

You know, I just thought about that, Jo. I can’t think of any locally-owned video store I’ve seen where I live in Maryland. I’m sure they exist, but not without some looking. I have a Blockbuster about three minutes away in each direction.

I can’t believe you guys don’t have a good farmers’ market. It’s never cold! There’s produce all year.

By: joannLIVE

joannLIVE — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:08:34 +0000

I’ve never had a problem with NetFlix, and we pay less than $12 per month. When it’s not baseball season, we watch about three rentals a week, which ends up being about $1 per movie. Plus, we have the total convenience of having the movies come to us. We always pay off our credit card in full each month so no interest there. I patronized locally owned video stores back home, but they’re tough to find in my neighborhood here in Miami because there are two blockbusters within a mile of each other. Of course, sounds like that may change in the near future. I always prefer the “mom and pop” shops for anything, but it’s getting harder to find them for anything. I wish we had a good farmers’ market here, but can’t even get that year-round in Miami.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:07:57 +0000

I love that when I clicked on this post a Netflix ad popped up on the side

I am a faithful Redbox user. The once a month I actually rent a movie, that is.

And I’m pretty sure Redbox does sell off old product. I could’ve sworn I saw an option to buy a used movie from my local box for like $7 or something. Or at least they did before all the lawsuits starting rolling around.