Only a few years ago, Movie Gallery had nice clean extremely well stocked stores all over this area. Now they are defunct.
Probably Netflix.
>>Only a few years ago, Movie Gallery had nice clean extremely well stocked stores all over this area. <<
On our early summer trip to Kentucky we got a lot of DVD’s dirt cheap at a Movie Gallery that was closing. I just got back from my “late summer” trip there and it is now a “Family Video”. I noticed that that company is also a chain, but I don’t know how big they are.
Only a few years ago, Movie Gallery had nice clean extremely well stocked stores all over this area. Now they are defunct.
Probably Netflix.
17 posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:24:48 AM by yarddog-———————
In my area, they were fine until Blockbuster moved into the area...high advertising...
Netflix is definitely part of the "Doomsday Formula" that Blockbuster is experiencing but its a "paradigm shift" that is the underlying cause.
The On Demand system is a big part of it as well. DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Dish Network all have Free On Demand systems as well "pay per view." Add in Netflix and their DVD rental system as well as their On Demand System and you've made "brick and mortar" DVD rental stores obsolete. There is no way they can compete cost wise. Its just too expensive to have all those buildings with all those utilities and maintenance and employees when their competitors can deliver media digitally via Sat Dish or Land-line.