It’s a sad day when a Redbox kiosk assembly line comes to a halt, but that seems to be the case with the Creedmoor, North Carolina, plant belonging to Flextronics Americas.
The plant has produced tens of thousands of Redbox DVD rental kiosks, but will shortly be shutting its doors. More than 150 employees will be affected.
A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice sent to the N.C. Department of Commerce’s Division of Workforce Solution:
“We regret the need to take this action, which is the result of ongoing integration activities and the strategic realignment of capabilities to meet current business requirements,”
Is this plant closure a possible indicator that the demand for Redbox kiosks is finally starting to slow down, or is this simply a cost-cutting move by Flextronics?
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I think REDBOX has all the Kiosk’s they need. You can only have so many.And I think they may see that it is time to look more to the Online set up. And less DVD’s? I have like 8 of them with in 2 miles of me. That is more then you really need..
I like having alot of boxes. When I try renting a movie alot of times its not at the box that I normally go to but I can find it at another box thats pretty close.
Alot is not a proper word….. A lot…
I no what you mean. We r not perfect. Any who, Jus move the plant. Ga. could use the jobs.
Red Box has saturated many suburban markets,kiosk’s exist on virtually every corner. The only real need will be to replace outdated kiosk’s with the more current edition or any that become too damaged to rehab etc.
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I think Redbox has enough kiosks spread out, and possibly even move some to widen their distribution. For example, why does one metropolitan city need 20+ kiosks? There are people in rural towns that still don’t have access to movie rentals (outside of by-mail operations).
Redbox needs more locations. I live in a smaller town and if I would like to get a movie I need to drive 15 miles in about any direction. I may be able to drive to get a movie or two but some people can’t. All I am saying is rather then 15 or 20 in one town maybe put one in the smaller towns.
They have to send a rep out to service the machine. If it does not do enought volume it would be cost prohibitive to have it. THose movies and that box are better served in an area that will utilize its services, financially anyway.
That said my town has about 3500 people adn we have 2 boxes.
Well said.. I have about 8 are 10 of them with in say a mile are so… Small towns need them also…
The only true way to answer your question
“Is this plant closure a possible indicator that the demand for Redbox kiosks is finally starting to slow down, or is this simply a cost-cutting move by Flextronics?”
is to know the current number of operating kiosk plants. If there exists 10 plants, then shutting one down is rather insignificant. On the other hand, if there exists only 2 plants, then I think the answer is quite clear.
This is quite possibly a result of the Redbox acquisition of Blockbuster Express (BBX): as a part of that deal, I believe that Redbox acquire all of the BBX machines. I believe they also gave NCR (BBX owner) a contract to remanufacture those BBX kiosks as Redboxs as well as manufacture future Redbox kiosks.
Redbox needs BETTER kiosks…..I am an electrician and have suggested to Redbox a plan whereas they could add a simple collection box with a photocell which would allow customers to return discs as quickly as sliding the discs into a mail chute where they would stack up…..the customers could be on their way in seconds….and the machine would feed them back into the proper slots ON IT’S OWN TIME….instead of the customer having to stand there in the freezing cold or downpouring rain to wait until the machine deposits one movie back into the proper slot before accepting the next one..,.but it is obvious that like most corporate minds….the persons making these decisions think that the best way to address a problem is to ignore it until it goes away…
I live in a rural area and I usually can’t rent a movie from Redbox because it is too far to drive to bring it back if I’m not going into town that day. We have a Dollar General close by and wonder why they haven’t put one in there which would be closer for the folks that live out this way. In town they have them at Dollar General and other places so it doesn’t make any sense not to put one out here. Just Sayin!
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