If the Super Bowl is not in your game plan for today, you might want to take advantage of a FREE code from Blockbuster Express.
When renting at a Blockbuster Express kiosk today, use the code BIGGAME for $1 off any rental.
That will score you a freebie on an older movie or half off on new releases, which rent for $2.
The code is only good today, Sunday, Feb. 5.
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Use the coupon code LOVE2RENT at your local Blockbuster Express kiosk and your $1 rental will be completely free. Or use it for a discount on a $2 or $3 rental.
The code expires Friday, Jan. 27.
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It's Friday, which means it's time for freebies.
The DVD kiosk war is escalating in the Triangle.
NCR announced today that it has installed its Blockbuster Express kiosks in more than 800 Food Lion grocery stores in 11 states, including more than 50 across the Triangle. There are also Blockbuster Express kiosks in local Kerr Drug, Rite Aid and Sheetz stores.
They compete for consumers' attention with Redbox kiosks, which are in Lowes Food, CVS, Harris Teeter, Walmart and other spots. Every Redbox is assembled in a huge Creedmoor factory, about 30 miles north of Raleigh.
The race to install kiosks comes as Blockbuster has closed more of its local stores, limiting options for traditional DVD rentals. The market has shifted to kiosks and to online rentals, an industry dominated by Netflix.
To promote its Food Lion connection, NCR is offering a free first night's rental of $1-per-night movies through June 17. Blockbuster Express customers should enter the promo FOODLION.
Bankrupt video-rental chain Blockbuster continues to reduce its retail footprint in the Triangle.
The stores in Garner and Clayton rented their last DVDs last week, staff writer Colin Campbell reports. The locations are holding liquidation sales before they close for good in April.
The Blockbuster in Raleigh's Mission Valley closed last week, and other closures are likely.
The chain filed for bankruptcy protection last fall amid mounting debt, consumers shifting to online rentals and increasing competition from rivals such as Netflix and the $1-per-night Redbox kiosks.
The Blockbuster video store in Raleigh's Mission Valley shopping center will close in February. Property manager Virginia Davis said the store plans to vacate the space, at the corner of Western Boulevard and Avent Ferry Road, on Feb. 28.
The closure follows Blockbuster's bankruptcy filing earlier this year. At the time, the company said that stores would remain open, but later the company stated that it would be reviewing stores on a market-by-market basis. Blockbuster has continued to make changes as it faces stiff competition from companies including Netflix in the movie rental market.
Blockbuster, which once had close to two dozen stores in the Triangle now has 19, and that number will shrink to 18 after the Mission Valley closure. Davis said that no replacement tenant has signed a lease for the space yet.
Blockbuster, the world's biggest movie-rental chain, filed for bankruptcy protection this morning.
The long-anticipated move was prearranged with bondholders and will allow the Dallas-based company to reorganize and reduce its massive debt.
Blockbuster, which has 20 locations in the Triangle, said its 3,000 stores in the U.S., DVD vending kiosks, by-mail and digital businesses will all continue to operate normally. In this region, Blockbuster Express is installing its kiosks in retailers such as Kerr Drug, Sheetz and Rite Aid.
Still, filing for bankruptcy "will enable (Blockbuster) to break the leases" on its stores, Kenneth Latz, director of the New York office of financial restructuring firm Conway MacKenzie, told USA Today.
Blockbuster is putting more of its stores on the chopping block.
In a regulatory filing today, the struggling video-store chain with nearly two dozen Triangle locations, reported that it may close 960 stores by the end of next year.
The Dallas-based chain operates about 3,650 company owned stores and franchisees run more than 600. Blockbuster wrote that 18 percent of its stores are unprofitable.
