The ongoing doom and gloom in the financial world has led to many people being forced to change their spending habits.  However, a state of the art machine that has recently been installed in Lancaster and is the first of its kind in the county will enable local residents and shoppers to join many people across the UK who are renting movies using futuristic vending technology.

With consumer spending on traditional nights out at an all time low due to the ‘credit crunch’, people are increasingly looking for a low cost night in.  Step in The Movie Booth, who claim that their DVD rental kiosk offers both a more convenient and lower priced movie rental service than their competitors. One of their DVD rental kiosks has recently launched in a Spar store on Willow Lane.

DVD rental kiosks have proven to be extremely popular in the USA, and use advanced robotics to make the rental of movies a ‘fully automated’ process.  The Movie Booth kiosk stores over 600 DVD’s in a box measuring half a square metre, and stock new release movies. 

Using a touch-screen menu, clients rent DVD’s on a pay-as-you-go basis as opposed to the traditional membership sign up.  The Movie Booth claim that this gives customers more control over the length of their rentals and enables them to receive the most competitive prices available.

The kiosk in Lancaster launched with pricing at £2.50 per 24 hours for new releases such as 17 Again and The Watchmen whilst also offering new users of the kiosk their first rental for free during the initial launch.  The kiosk adds to The Movie Booth’s network of thirty kiosks operating in the UK and Ireland. 

Mitchell Leszczyszak, Account Manager at The Movie Booth said ‘We’re extremely excited to launch our first kiosk in this region – it’s seems that the people living here like the idea of renting a movie from a booth.  The store we are launching in already have extensive customer bases so I’m hopeful that people visiting the shop will rent movies just as readily as they would buy milk and lottery tickets’.

For further information on the business opportunities available visit www.themoviebooth.com or call 0870 1436769.