hey everybody i just about all the comments. i was a manager at hollywood video in casa grande. they closed our store on wed. 20 of jan. i was a extremely sad our store went under. to hear everybody in here to be so happy that our stores closed is actually a shock to me. think about all the employees without a job. i myself am a single mother of two. i just don't get what a video store personally did to the people glad its gone. i might add that our store was ran only by 3 people, we were friendly, helpful, regardless of the grumps that came in. i would just like to let you know whatever happened to make you dislike our stores i am sorry. but show a little more compassion for all of these people who now do not know if they can keep there house , or pay a utility because they are out of a job.

What's this still doing up here if they closed on March 26th...... its
April 9th.....

I returned a game, then they claimed I didn't. These SCUMBAGS charged me $80 for a game. I hope they all go out of business.

@26 - Netflix actually lets you download directly now thru x-box...

We used to frequent HV before netflix added this feature.

Josh, After you get it to the x-box can you copy it to a DVD?

This is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while and perfectly on topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM

"boardbrown // Feb 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm

Hollywood video is the worst. Who cares if they’re coorporate or mom & pop? They’re going out of business ’cause they suck. It’s their own fault."

How dare you use logic! If Rain City were going out of business, I have no doubt it would be the fault of the developers...


And for everyone getting defensive about what I said, wishing a company to go out of business just because YOU don't like it is the ultimate definition of selfish. Healthy economy be damned!

I used to be a NetFlix fan until I learned I could reserve movies online with the library. They email me when they've arrive at my local branch. Not exactly free as my property taxes are paying for the service but tough to beat if you don't need that new release in the first thirty days.

sorry i think i am wrong. looks like only the one is going down, sorry. i must be such a d-bag that i can't think straight....

the one down 15th by safeway is going out of business also, both of them on 15th will now be gone. i just drove by and saw their sign as well.

@24 -- we're entering the post-DVD era. Netflix is just a bridge between video stores and movie downloads. To my mind there's still a niche for local video stores with expert employees, but it's a small one. I'm glad there will be less competition for this shrinking pie, because I value what I get at Rain City and I want it to stick around.

Not happy. But not suprised either.

I don't know why anyone is happy about this. There's a half-dozen jobs gone and an abandonned store for the next few years. Not to mention it reduces competive pressure on other video stores making their service and prices even worse.

Hollywood video is the worst. Who cares if they're coorporate or mom & pop? They're going out of business 'cause they suck. It's their own fault.

i never have late fees so i like rain city but also like netflix. you folks just need something to bitch about and today it is late fees. blah blah blah....

Rain City Blows! why go to a place that charges you late fees the second you walk out the door.
Netflix rules!

"The people on this blog have to be the biggest d-bags ever."

Joey, you just go right ahead with your big badass self, tough guy.

Joey is right. I am a huge "d-bag" for wanting to support locally owned video stores, staffed with friendly, knowledgeable movie lovers from my neighborhood. What was I thinking?

I used this store quite a bit in high school, I love Rain City but come on... those late fee's and only being able to hang out to a dvd for 1 or 2 days was really incovenient. I might have to go here and snag me a used movie for cheap.

Hollywood video is a joke.

You know the recommendations on the large board behind the counter? I asked if those where done by the store employees, since it was a particularly bad list of movies, and the employee said no, corporate tells them what movies to recommend.

Lame.

i am freinds with the gal that runs Rain City so i just choose to spend my money there rather than a chain location. to each's own i suppose but i am far from cursing the chain stores, and very far from being a d-bag!

@14 -- Er, what? Yes, at one time McDonald's was a mom&pop, too. Now it's not. If Cafe Verite has astounding success and opens stores everywhere and tries to make everyone drink exactly the same kind of coffee, I'll bemoan them, too.

That said, I do feel a bit ghoulish about my earlier comment (11). I'm not actually glad that Hollywood failed, per se; I'm glad that their failure will help Rain City and Island, who I like more, succeed. There's a difference.

The people on this blog have to be the biggest d-bags ever. They curse yuppies, developers, and whoever else whenever some crappy local business goes away, but here they are celebrating the demise of his Hollywood Video simply because it is a "chain?"

I have news for you, at one point in time Hollywood Video was a mom and pop operation.

anyone know what is "slated" for this space? just curious. the little "Energy Espresso" across 15th from here will be closing its doors on March 1st, per the owner Jeff.

Happy to see the video store go but sad to see the drive thru espresso stand go down with the others' due to the economy. best of luck to them...:)

Thanks for the info 'The Other T' ...I was going to check to see if they had any decent video game titles.

Yay! Now let's focus the chain-destroying might of Ballard northeast, on the Blockbuster in Greenwood!

I may go check it out to see if I can get anything on the cheap.

I'm glad to see them go.

Mmm...discount-priced candy...

Ha Ha Rain City Video smokes these corporate stores. I knew they'd never last.

I was in there today, first time since I signed up for Netflix and GameFly. Quick take on the available inventory:

- The only video games are last generation titles- PS2, GameCube, original Xbox.
- Not many new releases. Those probably went back to the distribution warehouse.
- TV box sets are separated into individual discs, and each disc is priced the same as an individual movie. You'd probably spend more at this clearance sale than you would for an intact set at Best Buy.
- Lots of previously viewed discs for sale. Giant cardboard boxes full of them in addition to the stuffed-to-the-gills-as-usual racks of PV.

Overall, nothing to get excited about unless you like discount-priced candy.

Thank goodness for Netflix!

As a former video clerk, I feel for the employees working there, but I really hate Hollywood Video. Back in the 90's, they would target successful mom & pop stores and use sleazeball tactics to drive them out of business so they could take over the territory (they did this to a cool little family-owned video store I worked at in college) . Ah, sweet karma.

hmmmm I have never noticed this place.....maybe a reason?

Oh, darn.

/s

Netflix!

The library is a far cheaper DVD rental solution. $0.15/day late fees!