Blockbuster Needs More Stores?!?
from the so-it-goes... dept
Just as some were wondering if there really was a future in store-based video rentals, Blockbuster comes along and tries to buy out rival Hollywood Video. Blockbuster already seems to have stores every 500 feet or so (there are almost as many Blockbusters as Starbucks where I live, and that's not easy to do), so it's unclear how having them every 300 feet will help their business very much.
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buying out a rival
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Hol and BB
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I suppose
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growth through elimination
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Don't believe the synergy BS
Can this possibly make it through anti-trust? Blockbuster is practically a monopoly with Hollywood its only token competition.
I am sure they will invoke NetFlix and pay-per-view to try to make the case that they are not a monopoly.
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Re: Don't believe the synergy BS
Blockbuster is definitely the largest corporate player, and there probably isn't a lot of mom and pops in large portions of suburbia so it is a defacto monopoly for a lot of people, but from a U.S.-wide industry standpoint they aren't even close to being a monopoly.
There are two mom and pops as close to my house as there is a Blockbuster and a Hollywood, but I use Netflix, so I really don't care.
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Re: I suppose
I figure it this way. If you rent a video, you go past the return date. You might as well keep it for another week, they are going to charge you for the week anyway. In the mean time I don't need my $4.50 late fee turned over to a collection agency. If Blockbuster buys Hollywood. I will find somewhere els to rent videow.
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