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Non-Tech : BLOCKBUSTER (BBI) - GIANT video specialty chain -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Walter Morton who wrote (34)	8/18/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67

I visited a Blockbuster and a Video Update his weekend in Milledgeville, GA. From the outside Blockbuster looked much better. Being attached to a Dominos Pizza didn't hurt. The Video Update sign looked faded. I thought the store was closed and the sign just didn't go off all the way. Since it was not midnight, I drove down to the faded sign and found that Video Update was open. Video Update was very clean and bright, but had a lot of empty space on the shelves. They had a very good selection of Japanese Animation (even some of the old cartoons that used to come on TV 20 years ago). Blockbuster had about the same amount of lighting, but was about twice the size of Video Update. There were too other things that Blockbuster and Video update had in common: There selection was specific for their customer base (a lot of movies with non-white actors as the stars); and in both stores nobody greeted me as I walked in. In Video Update a clerk almost stepped on me and did not say hello or excuse me. At Blockbuster a lady made an effort to lift her head and look me straight in the eyes without even a nod. Oh well, maybe greetings are overrated anyway in the chain- eat-chain world of the video specialty retail industry.