Giant Eagle's GetGo Tests DVD Kiosks
PITTSBURGH -- In response to industry trends and consumer demand, Giant Eagle here is said to be preparing to shutter its 100 Iggle Video departments in favor of automated DVD rental kiosks that have been tested in a few of its GetGo convenience stores since December. The move is expected to occur over the next nine months, according to a report by Convenience Store News' sister publication, Progressive Grocer.
A local leader in the video business for years, Giant Eagle opened its first Iggle Video store-within-a-store in the 1980s, at the height of the video rental craze. The chain still plans to continue selling movies via DVD displays at the front end and elsewhere in the store, the report stated.
According to published reports, Giant Eagle is still deciding on how it plans to reallocate the video department space, which ranges in size from store to store, as well as the fate of current Iggle Video employees.
"The company is working to reassign video department employees to other areas of supermarket operations to preserve as many jobs as possible," company spokesman Dan Donovan was quoted as saying in the report.
Giant Eagle operates 157 corporate stores, 69 independent locations and 125 convenience stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland.
The kiosks are supplied by Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based RedBox, launched in 2003, is owned in part by Coinstar Inc. and by a subsidiary of McDonald's Corp.
A local leader in the video business for years, Giant Eagle opened its first Iggle Video store-within-a-store in the 1980s, at the height of the video rental craze. The chain still plans to continue selling movies via DVD displays at the front end and elsewhere in the store, the report stated.
According to published reports, Giant Eagle is still deciding on how it plans to reallocate the video department space, which ranges in size from store to store, as well as the fate of current Iggle Video employees.
"The company is working to reassign video department employees to other areas of supermarket operations to preserve as many jobs as possible," company spokesman Dan Donovan was quoted as saying in the report.
Giant Eagle operates 157 corporate stores, 69 independent locations and 125 convenience stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland.
The kiosks are supplied by Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based RedBox, launched in 2003, is owned in part by Coinstar Inc. and by a subsidiary of McDonald's Corp.