Blockbuster Looking To Close 960 Stores
Sep 16, 2009 by Bruce SimmonsNot sure how many of you get your TV series or movie fix from Blockbuster. I know I don’t when there are so many other …
Not sure how many of you get your TV series or movie fix from Blockbuster. I know I don’t when there are so many other options these days more readily available to me than Blockbuster.
…Which is probably why the rental chain is looking to close up to 20% of their stores, to save themselves $30 million annually.
Once they do this, they’ll be looking to take on competitors like Netflix and Redbox with their own Redbox-like business model, of which they’re looking to have about 10k kiosks by the end of 2010 offering up those services.
Even if this is going to help them, I think they need to start getting their blue sign in our faces on the internet onto the sites we surf (hint hint)… otherwise I’m not sure kiosks are going to be their savior.
I know this one great site called Screen Rant where their advertising dollars would be pretty well spent…
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Ken you sound CHEAP..
Daniel F “for fail,,,”
Tweeb was giving you an example of how the employers/business owners are being hit with bs taxes from the Federal Government. These same taxes prevent them from hiring new employees,
The same arshooles that gave all their traitor friends in the Banking Industry bailouts and called it a solution to the recession,,,
(The last phase of a falling nation will be the looting of its wealth)
The Federal Government tomorrow could lift/remove all their bs taxes on employers and actually stimulate the economy big time!, but they don’t,,,
Freeing up employers with taxes could turn this depression around but they don’t,,,
I prob shouldn’t speak for Tweeb, but “wake the f up people!”
@GK
It’s called “spending wisely.” LOL
Actually I’m not cheap. I actually buy a lot of stuff since I have quite a few hobbies. That’s WHY I need to find the best deals for everything. I also don’t like paying for labor, that’s why I learned how to fix my own cars, computers, and guns.
But eating out, that’s the only time I pay for “labor” in the form of tips. My little rule is $4 minimum, 20% after that. Meaning if the check is like $15, 20% would be $3, so I give $4. If the check is $25, I give $5. I’ve probably made a few waitresses happy with that rule when I sit down for 20 minutes with a $10 or less check and leave $4 tip. I guess I’ve known a lot of girls who were waitresses so I have a soft spot for them, lol. Well, unless service sucks, then it’s just straight 15%. I never leave them nothing though, think that’s rude…
@Daniel- I was trying to penetrate your crystal gripping shell. I am not the one who is ‘missing the point’. I’m afraid it is you who is missing the point. Entirely.
Read 790′s statement. That is it EXACTLY. 790 can speak for me in the waking up arena anytime. Thank you 790.
@Ken
You showed me Dude!!
Gang…
and Ken thanks for the math lesson dude but I have a degree in applied mathmatics so it wasn’t really necessary..
Not really teaching math, just giving the example in case someone doesn’t understand what I mean by $4 minimum 20% after that… Not sure if I described it well enough, so I wanted to break it down.
I don’t know, Ken. I have had some horrible, HORRIBLE service at restaurants from my waiter/waitress and have not left a tip AND have never returned to that restaurant. A tip isn’t something someone should expect, it’s something they should earn. If the service is good, I leave a minimum of 20%, but if it takes a 1/2 hour to get drinks, my order is wrong or the waitress is rude, they sure as hell didn’t earn a tip. Minimum service deserves 15%, no effort or rudeness deserves NOTHING.
@andy S
Hehe, yah, I can understand that. But seriously, I don’t spend a lot of money eating out, 15% of my checks will be next to nothing, lol. The worst I did was leave $1 tip in ketchup… I pushed and rubbed that dollar into that ketchup, lol.