My girlfriend and I have been on a tear lately, watching old movies... Think about it... There isn't much worth watching in the theatres these days, and you need to take a mortgage out just to see one... So off we go to Blockbuster almost every weekend...
We're looking for classics... Black and white often, but these flicks are well known... Can you imagine a store not having Casablanca?... How about something like Gone With The Wind?... We went looking for Key Largo this weekend... I should have known it wouldn't be easy, because it took us several months to find a store that had Casablanca, and Key Largo isn't quite that big... Still, it should be there... We looked, it wasn't there... We asked, and the kid that was probably in diapers when I had my first DMV experience looked blankly back before typing it in the computer... He told us they don't carry that old stuff... Ya know what?... It was old when I was a kid and the stores had it... The video stores were a third the size they are now, and the selection was always good... I understand that they can't inventory every movie ever made, but they don't even have a classics section in Blockbuster any more... You have to look under Action if you want to find a western... Yea, there's action in Rio Bravo, but its a western... Westerns are their own genre... They have the Sci-fi stuff separated... How about giving us a classics section?... How about not sticking 100 copies of a given new release out side by side so they take up a wall... How about inventorying things in depth so you can still have room for the timeless movies?...
Now before you tell me to go to the independent video places, I know... I however have enough free rentals due me from blockbuster to take me in to next year... Apparently they lost a class action suit against them for overcharging late fees, and they are refunding those fees in the form of coupons... Apparently I paid a lot of late fees that year in question...
As soon as I'm out of coupons, they're out of a customer...
Posted by Backstage at September 1, 2005 10:26 PM | TrackBack