A Blockbuster Failure
August 28th, 2010 by ComputerBob
When’s the last time you visited a video store?
It’s been at least a year since I set foot in our local Blockbuster store.
I’ve probably rented a video from a Blockbuster-type store fewer than 30 times in my life.
Why do you think that is?
The main reason is that I grew tired of feeling frustrated that I couldn’t find anything there that I wanted to see.
Let alone anything that I wanted to see enough to make it worth having to pay the ever-increasing rental costs.
A few months ago, my wife and I discovered Red Box videos in the lobby of our local WalMart.
It’s a DVD-vending machine that charges only $1 for each two-day rental.
But, again, my problem is that I’m not a teenager and I don’t care about what appear to be the two mainstays of my local Red Box’s inventory: hip-hop and B-grade horror movies.
So, these days, I mostly just check the TV Guide Web site, hoping that something that I might want to see will be on later today.
It makes perfect sense to me that, with more and more people using non-store services like Netflix and broadband Internet access in order to watch movies, bricks-and-mortar video stores probably have a pretty bleak future — a lesson that Blockbuster has learned.
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