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Movie rental choices to dwindle
Published March 16, 2010
For Fort Payne residents looking to rent DVDs, it will soon be the town’s two automated Redbox kiosks or nothing at all.
Tina Sims, manager of Fort Payne’s Movie Gallery, said the store would close permanently within the next few months. The city’s only other video rental store, Hollywood Video, will also soon close permanently and is now in the process of liquidating stock.
Movie Gallery, Inc. owns both and officials with the parent company announced in February that it would close hundreds of its stores throughout the U.S. as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
This is actually the second bankruptcy filing for the retailer, which first filed Chapter 11 in October 2007 when it reduced from 4,430 stores to 3,300.
Many stores, including the one in Fort Payne, also offer tanning beds.
Sims said, locally, business has been strong. “We’ve actually really picked up recently,” she said. “A lot of people have been coming in and tanning since we’re getting closer to spring.”
She said Movie Gallery would continue to rent new releases for around another month, after which all the store’s inventory would be sold. The store is the oldest surviving video rental store in Fort Payne, having been in business for about 10 years – the location housed Video2Go before Movie Gallery. Sims said the closure would leave about six people out of a job.
Movie Gallery will also soon close one of its stores in Scottsboro, but a spokesperson for Movie Gallery in Rainsville said that location would remain open.
The closure of Fort Payne’s Movie Gallery leaves residents without a local brick-and-mortar rental location, and the sole option of locally renting movies from the city’s two
Redbox kiosks, at Wal-Mart and Walgreen’s respectively. Redbox, a fully automated DVD rental provider, typically locates at leading grocery, mass, drug and convenience stores.
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