The Australian
Video Rental Retailers Association has hit back at claims of a superior service offered by internet - ordered, post-delivered DVD rental services.
Not exact matches
Amazon is a large
retailer of DVDs and Blu - ray discs and also offers online
rentals and purchases of digital
video products.
At the time, you could visit
retailers,
video game
rental shops, flea markets, or get games through mail order services.
Take the home -
video market as an example: 90 percent of Blockbuster
retail store
rentals are new releases and 10 percent back catalogue; for Netflix, only 30 percent of their
rentals are new releases.
Actually, the
video rental stores get a DISCOUNT under
retail pricing, not a premium over it.
Hollywood initially resisted the shift from
video cassette tapes, and the dominant
rental model, to DVDs, with their emphasis on sales at much lower
retail prices.
As more and more consumers become savvy, the tipping point will be reached where big box
retailers go the way of the local
video rental store.»
For example, a friend of mine who had to shutter his
video rental business a couple of years ago felt so badly for his four staff members that he canvassed other local
retail businesses to find potential openings that they could fill.
Now, if the people at Blockbuster aren't looking at what they're going to do with all those
retail stores in the future, and understanding that they're in the communication business, not in the
video rental business, they're going to be in trouble.
«The good news is that even though Apple, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, and other online giants killed record stores and
video rental shops and are in the process of doing the same to electronics and bookstore big boxes, e-commerce will never replace the brick - and - mortar shopping experience,» says Sean Glickman, CCIM, managing director of Glickman
Retail Group in Maitland, Fla..
Specific sectors with high levels of home - office deduction use include textile producers, electronics producers, nonstore based
retailers, publishers,
video / audio producers, broadcasters, internet based workers, certain financial workers, real estate brokers, appliance and
video rental services, CPAs, architects, engineers, drafters, building inspectors, designers, science and business consultants, advertisers, marketers, business administrators, educators, doctors, social workers, actors, and religious and professional organization workers.
Specific sectors with high levels of home office deduction use include textile producers, electronics producers, non-store based
retailers, publishers,
video / audio producers, broadcasters, internet based workers, certain financial workers, real estate brokers, appliance and
video rental services, CPAs, architects, engineers, drafters, building inspectors, designers, science and business consultants, advertisers, marketers, business administrators, educators, doctors, social workers, actors, and religious and professional organization workers.