For one, Redbox has (or had) coupons and codes and stuff like that all the time where you can get free/reduced nights. They used to be one of the T-Mobile Tuesd

For one, Redbox has (or had) coupons and codes and stuff like that all the time where you can get free/reduced nights. They used to be one of the T-Mobile Tuesdays offers quite often, for example. For another, it used to be the case that Redbox would have things well before you could stream them, or when they could only be streamed expensively. Various waves of the distributors making it more annoying for Redbox to buy the discs, pushing things to their own streaming services very early, and just generally the downturn of physical video media all blunted those positives though. I used to use it semi-regularly for Blu-rays even not that long ago, but the kiosks around me have started to go away and the available selection and timing of releases is way worse than it used to be. They really just have everything working against them: the ongoing huge shift to streaming, the pandemic and strikes putting holes in the release calendar, Marvel and DC both stumbling, interest rates...