Every week I go to Blockbuster to use the free rental coupon that I get with online. I figure that the coupons are half the value we get out of the online subscription because we can choose to rent something on the spur of the moment. I have made the following observations in my experiences in the store.
- New releases are only roughly in alphabetical order. That makes attempting to find a more obscure title all the more frustrating because I have to search through the majority of the new releases to find the title.
- I don't know why some people don't get the online service. When I see someone with $18 worth of movies for one weekend it doesn't make much sense to me. We were encouraged onto the online service when Blockbuster started charging almost five dollars per rental.
- The same people ask me whether I want to sign up for online service every month or two. They don't seem to remember that I told them I already had the service last month.
- It may be a little nitpicky, but it annoys me that on most movie covers the actors' and actresses' names are placed over someone else's picture.
- I always feel weird looking through the older movies to rent. It's like some part of me thinks it is only normal to rent new releases.
- There is no such thing as a good parking lot next to a Blockbuster. The parking spaces and the driving lanes are big enough for a Yaris, maybe, but not much else.
As I was going through the checkout, the guy behind the counter handed me the movie and started to say, "I have Nothing..." then he stopped. After a short pause he started again with a wry smile, "I have Nothing for you." That made the movie worth getting.
2 comments:
Another pet peeve I have at blockbuster is that they tend to put their own stickers over some of the words on the box that I want to read.
I always wante to look in the old releases too, but there is a subtle pressure somehow to only do new releases, where does that come from???
Dust, I made an observation that you like to make observations.
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