Subject: Rental and Leasing Services

• Blockbuster Almost Done Making "Triple Play." Didn't That Star Billy Baldwin?

  March 5, 2007

• Rental Property

  August 23, 2006

• Blockbuster Creates DVD Rental "ATM." For Use in Blockbuster Stores. Jeez.

  August 4, 2008

• Are the Stores Really the Keyes to Blockbuster's Success?

  August 20, 2008

• 7-Eleven and Blockbuster to Duke It Out Over DVD Rental-Box Business

  In June 2007, Jim Keyes took over as chairman and CEO of Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. -- after having been president and CEO of 7-Eleven Inc., for which he'd worked for years. And now, the circle is complete. Because last summer, Blockbuster announced that it would be installing in its stores DVD-rental "vending kiosks" that more or less resembled automatic teller machines. Didn't make much sense putting a rental machine inside a rental store. Still, Keyes has proven he's game for anything that

  January 6, 2009

• Best Video Store

  September 20, 2001

• "Unprecedented Access": Blockbuster Adds TiVo Delivery to List of Latest, Greatest Ideas

  Last time we mentioned Blockbuster -- on Friday, when CEO Jim Keyes was overheard lamenting the poor product Hollywood puts on its shelves -- Friends and strangers used the opportunity to bash the business model. Chief among the complaints: historically high rental prices, it ain't Netflix, time limits on rentals, it ain't Netflix, slow adaptation to digital distribution, it ain't Redbox, it ain't Netflix. Slowly, Blockbuster's been trying anything and everything to move into a future in which B

  March 25, 2009

• Risk Factors: In Today's SEC Filing, Blockbuster Lists Every Possible Threat

  Dallas-based Blockbuster finally filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, reporting, yet again, a net loss of $374.1 million even while same-store revenues increased nearly 4 percent. But, as expected, the video- and game-rental company also warned investors that if it doesn't get its revolving loan restructuring all crossed and dotted "on or about May 11," well, the company "may not have sufficient liquidity to finance the ongoing obligations of our business, w

  April 6, 2009

• Best Monthly Bill

  September 25, 2003

• Union Puts the Squeeze on Tax Breaks

  The only thing worse than giving developers subsidies is a union’s threat to stop the giveaways

  February 5, 2009

• Hell Hath No Fury

  The good ol' boys at Rent-A-Center raise a white flag--they're licked

  March 14, 2002

• Where the Boys Are

  It's a man's world at Plano-based Rent-A-Center, a lawsuit alleges

  March 7, 2002

• This old chair

  Oak Cliff buys into rent-to-own antiques

  October 26, 1995

• An old concept

  Oak Cliff shop offers a new take on an antique idea

  October 19, 1995

• Labor Relations Board Makes Federal Case Out of Union Fight at DFW Car Rental Sites

  ​The Courthouse News Service this morning has this lawsuit outta Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport -- specifically, the Vanguard Car Rental locations at the airport (Vanguard operates National and Alamo). The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board's Fort Worth office has filed suit against the car rental company in Dallas federal court, alleging that Vanguard's local higher-ups have been threatening and firing employees at the DFW Vanguard spots who were even thinking ab

  July 29, 2009

• Who's Going to Save Blockbuster? The Movie Studios, As They Go After Redbox.

  ​Shortly after Elm Street-based Blockbuster reported its second-quarter stats Thursday evening, chairman and CEO Jim Keyes hopped on an investors' conference call to explain, yet again, what ails the former video-rental giant. The usual, of course: Netflix, shitty movies, the used-DVD and gaming market, slow transitions to digital delivery and its downloading kiosks, not to mention a heap of debt accumulated during The Second-Greatest Depression. Keyes remains optimistic that Blockbuster will

  August 14, 2009