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  1. The store in South Milwaukee is closing, off of Drexel & Chicago.
  2. I subscribe to Netflix and get 7 or 8 movies a month in Blu-Ray format for $11.49 per month. I can also play all the Starz inventory of movies by connecting my laptop to the HDTV for free.
    There is also a long list of instant play movies that can be played through the laptop. So, what would be the function of these dinosaur video stores again?
  3. We used to subscribe to Netflix but the price kept going up and up and the movies were slow in shipping. So after a few years, we switched to Blockbuster online. We receive up to 3 movies at a time in the mail. Rather than mailing back and waiting for another movie to arrive, my husband prefers to return them to our local Blockbuster store, which allows him to check out 3 more movies immediately. Then we always have a movie at hand without having to wait for the mail. I like the convenience of the mail, however, that often left us without a movie to watch while waiting for shipment. Blockbuster also seems to have a larger inventory of movies than Netflix did, especially foreign and independent movies, which we favor. So that's the function of our local Blockbuster "dinosaur" video store--which is mobbed on weekend nights by the way.
  4. Delavan store closing in April. They shot themselves in the foot! Last fall they started a (minimum) $5 for 3 days per movie. Who wants to keep a movie for 3 days? I had been renting there for many years but that came to an abrupt end! They did it to themselves. Long live RedBox and Netflix!


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