# Did McDonalds sever their ties with redbox **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 10, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402 "2018-08-10T21:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/1 "2018-08-10T21:36:55Z")
I don’t go to every McDonalds I see, but the two I tend to go to both had their Redboxes taken out. Did McDonalds and Redbox sever ties? Or is this just a coincidence and they are still at other McDonalds? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/2 "2018-08-10T21:42:20Z")
I’ve never seen a Redbox at a McDonald’s. Maybe it was a regional thing? ---
**Author:** ![yearofglad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@yearofglad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yearofglad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/3 "2018-08-10T21:50:13Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I’ve never seen a Redbox at a McDonald’s. > > Maybe it was a regional thing? Redbox, in its earliest form (when it sold a variety of goods, not movie rentals) was initially funded by McDonald’s, so there definitely was a connection. According to Wikipedia, Coinstar bought out McDonald’s share in February 2009. Wikipedia also says Redbox has been moving kiosk locations quite a bit. So I don’t THINK it’s any sort of severing of ties - those ties appear to have been severed almost a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![Panther\_Modern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@Panther\_Modern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panther_Modern)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/4 "2018-08-10T22:07:30Z")
I’ve never seen a Redbox in a McDonalds. That must be a regional thing. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/5 "2018-08-10T22:38:52Z")
I had no idea it wasn’t a national thing. Where I live they are at lots of McDonalds. Redbox here is at McDonalds, major grocery store chains and major pharmacy chains. Plus some major gas station chains. I assumed this was a nationwide corporate partnership. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/6 "2018-08-11T04:01:11Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I’ve never seen a Redbox at a McDonald’s. > > Maybe it was a regional thing? > [@Panther\_Modern](#): > > I’ve never seen a Redbox in a McDonalds. That must be a regional thing. I’ve seen a lot of Redboxes (Redboxen?) in McDonald’ses\*. Could be a regional thing. \*How do you make the plural of a business name that’s possessive (or a contraction for that matter)? Rephrasing to something like “McDonald’s restaurants” isn’t very elegant. ---
**Author:** ![yearofglad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b782af/32.png) [@yearofglad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yearofglad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-mcdonalds-sever-their-ties-with-redbox/819402/7 "2018-08-11T14:03:01Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I’ve seen a lot of Redboxes (Redboxen?) in McDonald’ses\*. Could be a regional thing. > > \*How do you make the plural of a business name that’s possessive (or a contraction for that matter)? Rephrasing to something like “McDonald’s restaurants” isn’t very elegant. I had the same issue with my post and rephrased it. The best thing I could find online is that it would be McDonald’s’s, but every place I found that option, they all just recommended rewriting the sentence to avoid the construction.