DVD Rental at Wal-Mart

Blockbuster and NetFlix, watch out ... Wal-Mart has entered the DVD rental arena.

Now, I have never been to a Wal-Mart in my entire life. Not even once. I happen to believe that Wal-Mart (and the big box stores like Home Depot and the like) are bad for America, for one basic reason ... they steamroll the small mom and pop stores. When the big boxes start popping up outside of town, the little family-owned business in town start shutting down.

This new DVD rental by mail thing is different ... it operates in a similar manner to NetFlix, entirely through the web and your snail mailbox. Pretty cool for Wal-Mart. Not so cool for your local video store. But hey, you were already using NetFlix, anyway, right?