What do you love / hate about movie rental shops / websites?
The pizza joint idea is a winner. Also, guaranteed movie selections, as in “You’ll love this staff pick or we’ll refund your money.” Put little stickers with the ratings from RottenTomatoes or some such site on the DVDs. I bet you can find a site that would love to supply you with such stickers. Set up an Internet-connected kiosk that lets you scan barcodes from the DVDs and automatically go to IMDB and other sites that have info on the movie. Offer to let people apply their last rental to buying the movie. (Have the order drop-shipped from a distributor.) Use your rental records (and maybe Amazon’s data) to send personal mailings to customers making further recommendations based on what rentals they and your other customers have in common. They might let you at it, if they’re the distributor for your drop-ship orders (see above). Offer a “kids’ card” that parents can give to their offspring, which has a limit of one rental per month or week or whatever (let the parents set this) and h
