The other day my daughter wanted to rent a movie so I decided to drive over to the local Red Box Vending machine at the local Walmart. I was short on time and figured blockbuster would take to long. We walk into Walmart and there is two people in line. The first lady is casually browsing each movie title and flipping through the pages.....and flipping through the pages....and flipping through the pages. Ok what ever happened to common courtesy, you see that there are at least two other customers waiting to use the machine and yet you feel the need to take your very sweet time just browsing. After (and i kid you not) ten minutes of browsing she chooses her movie, reaches in her wallet to get her credit card and oooooops realizes she left it at home! ARE YOU KIDDING ME????????
Next in line....this time it's an older gentlemen simply looking to return his movie. He enters the DVD box into the machine, waits 15 seconds or so and whooops out it comes. So he looks at the dvd, makes sure the label is facing the correct direction and re-enters the dvd. Another 15 seconds and whoooops again, out comes the DVD. At this point I am ready to scream but I keep my composure, ask the gentleman if I can help, I examine the dvd and everything is correct. Once again we together now attempt to re-insert the DVD. Ahhhh success, wait a minute, nope it spits it out again. At this point it has been close to 20 minutes of standing in front of this machine, I had enough. My daughter and I left and went to block buster.
Red Box DVD -- is it a cheap and easy way to rent your favorite movie? Well cheap yes, but it goes back to the saying of you get what you pay for. From now on unless I am already at Walmart and there is no one online at the Red Box I will rent my dvds elsewhere.
So now the One million dollar question: Great business idea or a soon to be failure? You decide and let me know. I look forward to your comments...
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