Going To Blockbuster's Replacement: The Redbox That Never Came
Rental kiosks outside supermarkets, briefly.
DVD vending machines appeared in supermarket foyers just as streaming made the entire category pointless.
They were a sensible idea about four years too late. A handful ran in British supermarkets and quietly disappeared.
It is a neat marker of exactly when physical rental stopped making sense.
Cost back then
£1.50 a night
Goes for now
Gone almost without trace
