Video Rental Shop
Video Rental Shop: Tapes, then discs, then gone. A rental shop buys a tape once and earns from it again and again, so the trick is guessing how many copies of…
Tapes, then discs, then gone. Rent the same film out forty times.
A rental shop buys a tape once and earns from it again and again, so the trick is guessing how many copies of the big new release the town will want on a Friday night and how quickly it will be dead stock. Late fees are a surprising share of the takings, and Friday and Saturday evening are the whole week. It was a wonderful business for twenty years, and then broadband and postal subscriptions ended it.
- Setup costs
- £40,000 to £120,000
- Competition
- Medium
- Category
- Shops & High Street Services
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- E-commerce: Online shops and brands
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