Redbox Walmart Near Me (2024)

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What happened to Redbox at Walmart? ›

Redbox is no more. Its parent company has converted its bankruptcy filing to Chapter 7 liquidation. Redbox is no more. The DVD kiosk-rental business is shutting down after its parent company converted its bankruptcy filing to Chapter 7 liquidation.

Non Redbox+ Members: Return your disc to any Box location before 9:00 pm the day after you reserve or rent. Returns after 9:00 pm will be subject to another nightly rental fee. Redbox+ Members: Return your disc to any Box location before 11:59 pm the day after you reserve or rent.

Our rental fees are charged per night: DVDs - $2.25. Blu-Ray - $2.25. 4K UHD - $2.50.

For each day you keep a rental, you'll be charged for another rental period + applicable tax. If you hold onto your disc for the maximum rental period (in most areas, it's 17 days), you'll be charged the maximum charge and the disc is yours to keep.

Redbox closing after 22 years in business, shutting down all 24K DVD rental kiosks. Updated: Jul. 15, 2024, 11:43 a.m. | Published: Jul.

Many Redbox kiosks have DVDs and Blu-ray™ disc available for rent for $2.25 per day, plus tax (except for jurisdictions that do not require sales tax to be charged or collected), so if you keep that DVD or Blu-ray™ disc for the one-day minimum rental period and return it two days later by 9:00 p.m. local time, you will ...

Sorry, no. Redbox is required to process all transactions electronically with the card you swiped at the kiosk.

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Final nail in the coffin. The days of heading to the red kiosk to rent a DVD are ending as Redbox announced that after 22 years, it is officially shutting down. As Variety reports, Redbox's parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, changed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case to Chapter 7 yesterday.

If you don't return all your discs from a kiosk visit, you'll be charged for them at the end of the maximum rental period(s) for whatever you didn't return (or when you return another disc from that kiosk visit, whichever happens later).

Why did Redbox go out of business? ›

Redbox's parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul, has been in trouble for a while, with over $1 billion in debt. The company filed for bankruptcy on June 29 and secured a “debtor in possession” loan of $8 million to help it pay its workers (who had gone almost a month without a paycheck and benefits).

Its parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, reported nearly $1 billion in debt. Redbox and its tens of thousands of nostalgia-laden movie-rental kiosks are shutting down, officially ending a vestige of the physical-media era.

DVD rental service Redbox is set to shut down after 22 years in business, as streaming continues to dominate the at-home entertainment market. Redbox's parent company, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, changed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, filed last month, to a Chapter 7 liquidation case on Wednesday.

CSSE not only owns the Redbox brand but also the streaming services Crackle and Chicken Soup for the Soul. CSSE acquired Redbox in August of 2022 as part of a $375 million acquisition deal. As part of the deal, CSSE hoped that pre-COVID numbers would return. However, this did not happen.