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If you enjoy being talked down to by an empowered teenager with zit pus running down there face, you'll be saddened by this news today:

Good Riddance!!!

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It's amazing how slow they were to react to the greatness that is Netflix.

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So will they be shutting down their vending machine type boxes at Speedways?

Edit: Said remaining open in second to last line. :oops:

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:09 pm 
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Beef Rockmore wrote:
If you enjoy being talked down to by an empowered teenager with zit pus running down there face, you'll be saddened by this news today:

Good Riddance!!!

I worked for this company for 5 years. The bad customers highly outnumbered the bad employees they had.

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Douchebag wrote:
Beef Rockmore wrote:
If you enjoy being talked down to by an empowered teenager with zit pus running down there face, you'll be saddened by this news today:

Good Riddance!!!

I worked for this company for 5 years. The bad customers highly outnumbered the bad employees they had.


I worked for your competition for 10 years, Man did I run into some terrible customers

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I worked for Family Video for about a year.
They're still in business because they have porn and they have free kids movies and vids.....fun for the whole family! :mrgreen:

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I worked for Family Video for about a year.
They're still in business because they have porn and they have free kids movies and vids.....fun for the whole family! :mrgreen:


Yup porn will keep mom and pop stores afloat. Family Video is a good place to shop.

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chaspoppcap wrote:
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I worked for Family Video for about a year.
They're still in business because they have porn and they have free kids movies and vids.....fun for the whole family! :mrgreen:


Yup porn will keep mom and pop stores afloat. Family Video is a good place to shop.

I don't understand how rental porn has survived with the internet being around.

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Yup porn will keep mom and pop stores afloat. Family Video is a good place to shop.

I don't understand how rental porn has survived with the internet being around.

Some people just refuse to jerk it at their computer.

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Some people just refuse to jerk it at their computer.


People around here don't seem to have that problem

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Some people just refuse to jerk it at their computer.


People around here don't seem to have that problem

I'm sure there are at least a couple of people here who masturbate everytime they see a new post from me.

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The Original Kid Cairo wrote:
I'm sure there are at least a couple of people here who masturbate everytime they see a new post from me.


Yeah one of them is making his triumphant return to the board tomorrow so I have heard

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old pervs don't know how to work computers apparently.

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Douchebag wrote:
Beef Rockmore wrote:
If you enjoy being talked down to by an empowered teenager with zit pus running down there face, you'll be saddened by this news today:

Good Riddance!!!

I worked for this company for 5 years. The bad customers highly outnumbered the bad employees they had.


Two points:

1) I'd certainly hope EVERY company that's been in business for 10+ years had more (good or bad) customers than zit faced employees.

2) Wipe the pus off your chin.

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Eaglo Jeff wrote:
I worked for Family Video for about a year.
They're still in business because they have porn and they have free kids movies and vids.....fun for the whole family! :mrgreen:


There are some kooky, religious nuts who sometimes protest outside Family Video in West Chicago. They stand out there with their signs about immorality, and God not approving of adult movies.

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I'm sure there are at least a couple of people here who masturbate everytime they see a new post from me.


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I guess when a company makes a huge percentage of their income off late fees, it doesn't matter if they change to the Netflix model - as they'll never see those late fees every again.

My beef with Blockbuster is this:

I purchased DirecTV back in 2001. With it, I got a free rental at Blockbuster for a year - one per week. Yet 'the week' continually started on a different day. First the new week was Sunday. Then Monday. And when all was said and done, out of 52 'free rentals' I probably only got about 40 because I got so tired of their bullshit and the uneducated idiots that worked behind the counter.

Usually when you get something 'for free' you'd enjoy it. Not the case with these ass fucks.

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My understanding is that this is going to be a situation where they liquidate the lowest-margin stores (if they haven't already), will sell a lot of stock in the other stores, and do what they can to keep the highest-margin stores open for as long as possible - be that several months or several years.

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beef, these kids were most likely making $6.50 an hour.


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I'm sure there are at least a couple of people here who masturbate everytime they see a new post from me.


A kid on my sons' baseball team is nicknamed "Brawny". Whenever I see him, I think of you, Kid.

The "Brawny" thing might have been my very first joke on this board. It cracked up Hawkeye Vince. Now years later, everybody thinks I suck. Such is life...

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beef, these kids were most likely making $6.50 an hour.


WERE being the operative word.

Now they can go someplace and actually provide polite customer service vs. being the late fee gestapo.

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The one around the corner from me on Harlem and Franklin is officially closed. I swear they just put up the Clearance signs about a week ago.....

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Don Tiny wrote:
My understanding is that this is going to be a situation where they liquidate the lowest-margin stores (if they haven't already), will sell a lot of stock in the other stores, and do what they can to keep the highest-margin stores open for as long as possible - be that several months or several years.

This is true. Exactly what they are doing. I know someone in the know there. They are going under slowly and do not want too look that way!


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Scooter wrote:
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My understanding is that this is going to be a situation where they liquidate the lowest-margin stores (if they haven't already), will sell a lot of stock in the other stores, and do what they can to keep the highest-margin stores open for as long as possible - be that several months or several years.

This is true. Exactly what they are doing. I know someone in the know there. They are going under slowly and do not want too look that way!

They should have closed their doors 3 or 4 years ago. Reorganization is not going to save them. They're done. Why continue to operate at what will be a sure loss, when they can just close today and not lose another penny?

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Family Video is in the same situation. And will be all done as well. They are a little better run than BB but there are going to be a lot of unemployed video store managers soon. FV pays managers pretty well if you want to work 24/7 362.


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what blockbuster should do is just turn these things into museums. bring back the big plastic VHS cases and laser discs, and old movie posters, nintendo sections, etc.

i'd like that. :mrgreen:


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laser discs

Wow. I remember when that was cutting-edge technology.

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what blockbuster should do is just turn these things into museums. bring back the big plastic VHS cases and laser discs, and old movie posters, nintendo sections, etc.

i'd like that. :mrgreen:


That would be pretty cool. I remember when Gurnee Mills had a Panasonic store and we would all like crowd around the 3DO demo. Thought it was going to be the next big thing.

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laser discs

Wow. I remember when that was cutting-edge technology.

I still have about 100+ or so and a player that works too.

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