[78-L] Blockbuster dying??

[David Lennick]

You couldn't pay me to go into another Blockbuster store even if they gave away 
free inflatable women. Attitude, product, the rumor (true?) that the Religious 
Right was responsible for them renting edited versions of some films, managers 
under 20 years old..there's only one store I ever rent from, an independent 
place that's always had a wide variety of popular material and hard to find 
stuff. And at that, I may go there once a year..just too much available from 
other sources, on Turner, or ludicrously low priced via Amazon and Deep 
Discount or even in the rack at the checkout counter at Tops Supermarket where 
I found "Li'l Abner" (the musical) for 5 bucks last month.

Good riddance.

dl

Darrell Lehman wrote:
> The two stores I used to "shop" at were staffed by morons with obnoxious 
> personalitys (if one could call what they had a "personality") and had 
> very uncooperative management.  I discovered a couple "local" stores 
> that had everything I wanted with pleasant, knowledgeable employees. 
> 
> There may be some economic/cultural issues involved but perhaps poor 
> environment played a part... ?  They're getting what they deserve - no 
> loss in my book!
> 
> ======================================================
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> Just heard a news story that Blockbusters might close as many as 960
>> stores.  YIKES!