Movie Gallery to shut down all remaining U.S stores

Farther and farther, jobs in the service industry are being replaced by computers and machines. Within an economy where one has to work for money, being replaced by a machine/computer is not a good thing. So those who are unable to get those jobs that are NOT in the service industry are going to suffer, and this is how the population is going to be culled like farm animals. They use technology and money to gain power to control us, so they don't have to rely on wars to exterminate the population.

oh man 19,000 minimum wage jobs lost, can the economy stand the hit?

I'm no economist, but what happens once there's no more dead-end minimum wage jobs left? I guess the skill-less people either become homeless or go to school to get skills, and then the skilled jobs become the minimum wage jobs. You and I both know that one day they'll be robots working in all factories, and even robots working in places like a McDonalds. Robot driven trucks, all those easy jobs will be gone.

Originally posted by VENOM79:

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oh man 19,000 minimum wage jobs lost, can the economy stand the hit?

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Est. 13 days till all the hot deals start popping. It does suck however 19,000 is nothing compared to Vegas where I'm a casino games dealer. Half the town has pretty much been laid off and if there's a job it's part time. 425$ a week for 2 years plan is hard to get off :(

The writing was on the wall for a long, long time. I once worked for Hollywood Video, starting there in 99 on through 2002. The rental industry was booming when VHS was king, however the media mafia got greedy with DVD, but made giant mistakes upon it's delivery, some of which they are trying to correct by now enforcing 30-60 day windows on Redbox and Netflix.

Those windows once existed with VHS, though it was the opposite, where rentals were out first and then the retail tapes would hit your local store. PPV and HBO rounded out the rest of the "calendar" for each movie.

Now DVD's come out for rental and retail on the same date. With the rise in operation costs (and inflation) it was costing $4-5 to rent EACH DVD at a Hollywood Video or similiar store, when at the same time prices were dropping at Wal-Mart and many movies can be had for as little as $3 (older, catalog titles) or $12-15 (new releases.) It pretty much killed the rental industry silently, at a time where Hollywood and Blockbuster were booming and expanding like wildfire.

I do remember, even back in 01 or 02, reading a report about Hollywood's credit being frozen and they could no longer borrow money to build new stores. At that time each new store was built, much like a McDonald's, etc. The initiative switched to them moving into plazas to help cut costs, but they never recovered from that huge amount of debt from years past.

Movie Gallery I would compare to a snowball - it kept growing and growing, adding more and more smaller chains until it became big enough to buy Hollywood, which I could NEVER understand the reasoning behind adding so much debt to your company by buying them out. Movie Gallery was already large enough to be a major competitor and would become the defacto number two player in the rental market if Hollywood closed. They might still be alive and kicking had they just let Hollywood die a natural death in the first place.

minimum wage or not to most people a job is a way to pay bills and live life,so it dont really matter how much you make on your job as long it pay for your life style. the nerve and the vanity of some people make me F--king sick.And yes i do make more than minimum wage but that's not the point i work in customer service as a manager but there are people who work under me that dont make alot of money but they are good hard working people.And i feel bad when any of them are laid off due to cut backs.what we need to see in is more of them overpayed wall street asshole fired and run out of town for all the money they stole from us.

The lost jobs are unfortunate, but the model is outdated and it is amazing that BB & HV have lasted this long. We can't keep businesses afloat just for the jobs they provide...the feds have tried it over and over without success.

com on really, try paying bills on minimum wage you cant do it, your telling me theres not another crapy paying job out there? why do people always do that make a big fuss about losing a minimum wage job? i've done minimum wage it's a go nowhere job,the company makes millions while you make 350 a week,go sell drugs if you get caught oh well what are they gonna do take away your lambo,bmw or kick you out of your palace

some people are just idiots! no one chooses to have a minimum wage job its just what you end up with depending on circumstances. besides one day we'll all be making 20 an hour and that will still be minimum wage. regardless of how much you make its an income that you've based your lifestyle and life around. its crappy but its still a life! do you really think 19,000 people can find a replacement job before there funds run out? and thats if they were smart enough to have some in the first place.
some people just need to stop being so single mind or not state there opinion at all

Originally posted by bomber991:

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I'm no economist, but what happens once there's no more dead-end minimum wage jobs left? I guess the skill-less people either become homeless or go to school to get skills, and then the skilled jobs become the minimum wage jobs. You and I both know that one day they'll be robots working in all factories, and even robots working in places like a McDonalds. Robot driven trucks, all those easy jobs will be gone.

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In deed...I would not want to have to work at McDonalds. None the less, I would hardly be surprised to see an all-robotic McDonalds (run by one person and about 10 robotic clowns) in the near future...probably in Japan.

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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In deed...I would not want to have to work at McDonalds. None the less, I would hardly be surprised to see an all-robotic McDonalds (run by one person and about 10 robotic clowns) in the near future...probably in Japan.

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Originally posted by crunk15:

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some people are just idiots! no one chooses to have a minimum wage job its just what you end up with depending on circumstances. besides one day we'll all be making 20 an hour and that will still be minimum wage. regardless of how much you make its an income that you've based your lifestyle and life around. its crappy but its still a life! do you really think 19,000 people can find a replacement job before there funds run out? and thats if they were smart enough to have some in the first place.
some people just need to stop being so single mind or not state there opinion at all

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