Blockbuster CEO Lauds 30-Day Vending Window, New Deals With Studios

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Boy if this doesn’t just get people to be excited about using your store. How on earth does this not fall into anti-competitive practice? I love the justification he gives, saying the 30-day window against kiosks (aka competition) gives a "unique vending" opportunity. I’m no genius, but pretty sure that translates into "monopoly" no matter how you pretty it up.

Home Media Mag

He said kiosks offered limited stock space (about 500 discs) that resulted in a dearth of new releases available to consumers. “For a movie like The Dark Knight, we stocked 400 units per store and still ran out,” Keyes said. “It will be very difficult to ever stay in stock on hot new releases in a kiosk environment.” He said proposed 30-day windows by Universal, Fox and Warner created a “unique vending” opportunity that the CEO said was complimentary to Blockbuster’s multichannel business model. He said studios with the kiosk window account for about 60% of total major studio product. The windows also enhance the relationship between Blockbuster stores and its nascent Express kiosks by allowing stores to carry less expensive stock in kiosks.

 

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