So I was sitting at the local Walgreens the other day and I saw something that I had to chuckle at. I saw a blockbuster empolyee walk right up and order movies via a redbox.

Well I decided to look into this subject a little bit and what I found was pretty shocking.

I took a look at the local area video rentals and found that certain local buisnesses are in serious trouble, such as Blockbuster and Movie Gallery. Hollywood video has already seen the effects of the sourge that Redbox has posed to the industry. 8 of 8 Hollywood Videos shut down here in Tulsa over the last 6 months due to loss of customer base. Sure $1 movies are nice and I have used the Redbox more often as of late. Now here in Tulsa there are many good employees are now oout of work and it is being acredited to the advert of Redbox.

On average each store had 10 emyployees and in turn left roughly 80 people out of work, looking for new places of employement. 80 is not that high of a number but in thesee times it is hard enough for American citizens to find new employement. Now look at the other video supply chains here in Tulsa. Blockbuster is one of the prominant video rental retailers here in town, they currently have 13 in the city and more in the out lieing cities, each having a surplus of employees.

It is rumored that Blockbuster is going to be shuting down in the next few years if the ecconomy don't turn around. I see this industry faling even if the ecconomy turns and further Oklahomans being out of work either way.

So what I am wondering is if anyone else has notice trends like this that are harmful even if the economy does make the predicted turn for the better. New inventions are coming out every day and it makes me wonder which is the next to put a massive amount of people of work.

Robotics have already eliminated alot of need for workers. Whats next?