WHY BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO IS ALMOST GONE

Blockbuster Video And why it declined. Blockbuster was a ruthless corporation. . When they came along VHS was the home video format. At the time most NEW RELEASES ON VHS would cost (wholesale) about $60.00. Thus that is why "VIDEO STORES" came along. These independent stores would buy 5-10 copies ( a huge investment) and rent them out. When Blockbuster opened up a store they would buy 20-40 copies and charge about $1.00. Once they drove the mom and pop stores broke they would be the only store in town and then they would  raise  rental prices. Movies that were once only $1.00 to rent now were $2.50. Once domination happened in one market BLOCKBUSTER would then open up another store in a new area and repeat their process. This happened everywhere. Once Blockbuster was the #1 Video Chain  they became very stupid on how they would handle the stores that they owned! Like most corporations they went by the "ONE SIZE FITS ALL". This model in reality was its downfall.

I worked at a Blockbuster from 1997 - 1998 and saw this first hand. I worked in an upscale neighbor hood. My customers wanted the "Art Films" and Blockbuster would never buy the films that these customers wanted to see.   I remember BB bought 30 tapes of "Contact". This was a huge waist for this store because every night there were still copies still left on the shelf. In fact the store had about 6 tapes of this film that never rented once! We later sold them off for $12-$14 ea but that was still had a huge write off of $46 each! These films might of rented out all the time at other stores but not at mine. Every store has a different customer base and Blockbuster failed to see this.

They however should of bought copies of the following films that would be hot rentals at my store "Paradise Road" "The Van" "Shall We Dance" &; "Kiss Me Guido". Now not every store would be able to rent out these films however my store would! Now you might not of herd of these films but my customers did. After all this was Woodland Hills Ca and lots of people in this area are not only movie fans but they worked at the major studios. They knew movies! They wanted to see more independent films on the shelves. So my boss let me order films and the films that I ordered (see the titles above) and you know what these films (and many others I ordered) were always rented. In the year I worked at the store I helped drive up the business by 20%. However Blockbuster failed (again) to see how we drove up the rental business for that location. I quit working at BB only because I was tired of working 2 jobs. 2 years after I left this location closed...

Now another reason why BB is going broke was because they kept raising rental prices! Once DVDs came on the market BB cost of good went down by 2/3. The wholesale price on the average DVD was now $15-$20. However BB still kept raising DVD rental prices. I remember having to pay $5 for a new release however REDBOX had the same film for $1. BB kept losing market share to not only REDBOX but NETFLIX as well. There greed did them in.

BB is now  gone. Killed by Cooperate Greed and Ignorance.  

Elizabeth Hasselbeck Fast Exit from "The View" is all so telling

Rumors proved to be true that Elizabeth was no longer wanted on "The View".  Her contract wasn't being renewed.    Now it was denied of course when it was leaked that Elizabeth would be departing however most of us knew it was true.

Now what I find so telling is the fact on Tuesday FOX NEWS announces that Elizabeth is joining "Fox and Friends" in September.  The next day at "The View" is Elizabeth's last day and there isn't even a "Clip show" to highlight her past 10 years on the show!    THEY WANTED HER GONE!   

Good Luck EH at FOX NEWS.  Glad your there because I never watch FOX NEWS. 

TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME WILL DALE COOPERS DELETED SCENES EMERGE MARCH 25 2014

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On episode 3 of the television show "Twin Peaks"  Agent Cooper was seen entering the Black Lodge the date in 3/25/2014. In the movie "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" he is said be trapped in the black lodge but in scenes deleted from the TPFWWM  he escapes.  Well it would be "GREAT" if in real life DAVID LYNCH finally release the deleted footage and do so in that date 3/25/2014.  It would be awesome!    

Corey Monteith RIP Very Sad I don't care how you died , I take your loss personally

31 years old is too young to die.  Regardless how this man died I beg the press to just let him rest in peace.

I am was  a huge fan of the show and Corey was one of the reasons.  His passing makes me sad because I am in recovery myself.  I have 16 years and I know how lucky I am.

GOOD NEWS POLTERGEIST II AND III ARE GETTING SPECIAL EDITIONS DVD & BLU RAY

I am not allowed to state how I know this but I have been informed that the sequels to "Poltergeist" are getting the special edition treatment however they will not be released until sometime in 2014. 

For those of you who don't know there is plenty of Material that has never been released on home video on all the "Poltergeist" Films.  The originally shot material by Tobe Hooper on the first film to the many deleted scenes that were found in the "Poltergeist II" screenplay but never made it to the final cut of the film.  There is also all the materiel from the third film that has many fans of series want to see including the original ending.

"Poltergeist III: underwent re-shoots after the star Heather O'Rourke died.  Even though the film had wrapped months prior to her death for some reason the studio ordered re-shoots and what the original is like is anybody's guess  after 25 years it would be nice to finally see what the original ending was... Maybe Now we will know

I am not a fan of Tom Cruise or Katie Holmes but

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It was a fake marriage and Katie went along with it but I think the photographer  was out of line.  Leave this poor little child alone.  Calling her names is wrong VERY WRONG.  She might bet a brat  but the photographer is differently an asshole!  It is okay to call an adult an asshole.  

ATTENTION YOU STUPID AMERICAN GEORGE W BUSH LOVERS

GW spent Billion on a war that was uncalled for.  Countless lives ended because of GWB Texas size ego.

Ken Starr Spent $40,000,000 on an investigation  on Bill Clinton. The only thing that he had found out was how the dress got dirty.


This country what a bunch of winners!