<![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> -Not willing +Now willing

Slisdexic typing.

budabellyx

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> First off, "If I'm not trained to know it I don't?" Wondering why you didn't get that promotion you wanted? Cause you aren't willing to move or learn, you have grown stagnant. Which is something Blockbuster did, and is not willing to change and move into a new segment... Maybe this is what they need to bring back their brick and mortar dominance, or maybe this is just too little too late. Best Buy right now dominates the market they are trying to get into, so it won't be easy. Kudos on the effort BlockBuster.

Good segway no?

budabellyx

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @luciusad2004: its fuck-ups like you that drive retail into the ground and why we have netflix and VOD services. Grow-up you ungrateful tenneage shit. We expect it because its the MINIMAL AMOUNT OF SERVICE YOU CAN PROVIDE. Fuckers like you make me want to beat your ass. If you dont like your job QUIT and give to the enterprising teenager who will use it as a learning experience and become your manager or CEO of the company on which you waste your 8.15 per hour....

FUCKING DOUCHE

Sorry.....thats been pent up for a while

LAZY FUCk

Cordfucious

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> yeah Block Buster has been wanting to do stuff like this for a while. Back when i worked at RadioShack they tried to do a few partnership stores as a test, to see if they could do something along the lines of what you see up there, but it never worked out.

king_of_fools

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> sweet! i was all like whats this "box rouge" that people are talking about, then i googled it now im making a fake marijuana liscence out of my old blockbuster ID cause there is one just down the street!

pevans34

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Oh... and i think this is a last effort to try and save their business in a world were blockbuster is slowly becoming irrelevant.

luciusad2004

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I see a bunch of comments w/ people coplaining about teenagers that they have to deal w/ when they go to any sort of store. While I agree that they should at all times be respctful and courteous. What more do you honestly expect from them. They kids at blockbuster are probably making dirt, do you expect them to be jumping w/ joy for the hours they are wasting away so that they can go back to their studio apartment in the projects that they can barely afford? Hell, i work at wal-mart and its like people expect me to know EVERYTHING about the store. Fuck no. If i wasn't trained to know it , I don't know it. I make $8.10 I'm not gonna go out of my way to do shit. damn right I'm miserable at work. And obnoxious customers love to come in and start giving you shit for problems they created. It's wonderful. Really, I don't see why people expect so much when they go to a chain store and are served by teenagers. Training at these places sucks and there is no incentive to learn extra just to be helpful when a customer needs it.

luciusad2004

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @EBone:

haha funny you mention Panda Express, theres one of these (Blockbuster Media) by my apt and its in front of a Panda Express

I will be going a lot more often now that I got a BluRayStation3

rodsky

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> BB, where their one copy of "Citizen Kane" is always checked out but 30 of their 30 copies of "Stealth" are on the shelves. Now from 6am to midnight -Brilliant!

SeattleTed

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> The funny thing is, when I looked at the picture (before reading the title) I thought it WAS Best Buy.

videoCWK

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I admit I had blockbuster online service and had a pretty good value proposition... THEN they got greedy .. AGAIN, took my 2 video game rentals a month that were free away from me and raised the price 3$ ... THEN! they raised the price to $24 for online rentals and unlimited instore exchanges... THEN!!! they raised it again to $35 or whatever it was thats when I said .. GOODBYE! and soooooo glad I did, went to netflix and I'm hoping that VOD Service they have gets extended to Xbox Live so I can DL movies that way for a Monthly Fee vs. purchasing Videos over Live for each one I want to see makes a lot of sense to me. I DONT want to pay per movie, I still want the unlimited $20 a mo service and still be able to watch all of the new DVD releases AND be able to purchase Movies in a Digitial format that I can put up on a Shared Media Center Server to stream to my 360 or something with Windows Media Center Extender on my TV w/o trying to find the dumb dvd and with out DRM but thats not going to happen, hollywood doesn't seem to be watching what happend to the music industry with MP3's. Unforunatally, nobody has figured it out yet, sigh.

8026mn

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> what's with giz and putting jumps in the middle of a sentence? can this stop?

mjmahon

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Rock Band sessions is the only thing that caught my eye.

aaj111

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @jpitsch: I've heard of 1080p. I've yet to hear of a Blu-Ray title that I really really want to own.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> The model is not even close to dead until 1080p movies are available to download. Have you ever heard of Blu-Ray?

jpitsch

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> If you work for Blockbuster Corporate, just quit. Really. You'll be much happier. I don't care what you're making. Sitting around on a sinking ship because you've got a seat at the captains table is a stupid idea. Quit now, before this absurd and soulcrushingly bad idea (and so many others like it) destroy your self esteem and cause you to beat your children and kick your dog.

AndyDuncan

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Blockbuster is like Rasputin - won't it just die already? Between DVDuesday and Netflix, I don't want to shlep to some crappy store to rent a movie. The model is dead. Move on.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I like Rock Band, but there's nothing worse than hearing kids pound on those drums in a store. It's driven me away from the games section in Best Buy quite a few times.

psychopanda

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I'm not really sure if Blockbuster is on the right track, but we'll see. I do hate the fact that they charge the same price for old movies as new ones. I think streamlining checkout to something similar to RedBox would be great.

To all those that say "renting is dead" need to get their heads out of their "Gizmodo" world. I'm all into tech and would definitely have no problem downloading content or getting digital copies, but besides me, 90% of the people I know would have no idea how to do any of that or want to mess with it for that matter. Additionally, "high speed internet", according to most internet providers, is still classified at 128kps and up. Even with the 6MB plan it takes a good while to download a 700mb movie. Plus the quality is never as good when it gets blown up on the big screen.
Believe me, I'm all in favor of what everyone else wants on this site, but in reality, I think places like Blockbuster will be around for a while to accomodate all the rest.

metaluna21

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @blueforce4116: Looks like a CompUSA to me.

@Dook_In_The_Urinal: ...so wrong.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @92BuickLeSabre:
LOL!

Dook_In_The_Urinal

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @Dook_In_The_Urinal: Okay, now I'm really not going.
I'm also pretty sure I will now not be going to sleep tonight either.
*shivers*

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @92BuickLeSabre:
Oh come on! Dont be such a baby. I'm sure your asshole would grow back in no time.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Way to credit the tipster, Chen. :'(

Travis Hudson

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Brick and mortar Blockbuster's last gasp. Guess what, the market has changed.

rdldr1

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I think Blockbuster is making some good moves toward their future so they do not get Netscaped by a bigger better competitor. I have been going there since it was Erols and I do not plan on stopping anytime soon. If video downloads ever get good I am sure they will be the best at that business as well.

jpitsch

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Doesn't look like very efficient storage for DVDs..

ItsRabid

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @Lorne:"In 10 years the phrase "rent a movie" will have no meaning whatsoever."

As long as people say "gafolrǽden pleghús," I'm pretty sure they'll continue to say "rent a movie."

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> and that guy in the photo looks like a douche... and the photographer sucks ass at lighting, and aside from his blown-out head im also glad we have a beast of a shadow from who the hell knows what on the fugly beige display... yay blockbuster!

islandhopper

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> i think their best bet at survival would be to install rows of pay toilets in every Blockbuster! They always seem to show up on everyones route home from the bars...

islandhopper

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> wow US Blockbusters are a hell of a lot different to the UK ones, i like the idea of the gadgets but isnt Blockbuster for renting films. Also just like to point out my local Blockbuster is very heplful, me and my gf wanted to rent out knocked up but it was all gone, so the guy helped us out took us round the store and showed us some other films we ended up getting like 4 other films (40 year old virgin, wedding daze, in her shoes and Oldboy (that last one was for me lol)), they are always like that as well even if its just the one guy!

JBreakwell

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> If that guy is going to be there, I'm definitely not going.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @exkon:

I understand what you are saying, but these companies need to take a little more care in their hiring practices. If they are hiring rude punks that are resentful they work a crap job and live in their mom's house and drive her car then they should realize how it will reflect on the company as a whole.

For their new idea to work they would have to work hard to lose their "movies only" image and to incorporate a partnership with another company (Circuit City perhaps). Hiring people with people skills and some basic pc knowledge and at least access to imdb.com would be helpful for movie selection and selling me that new tv.

I don't know that the 7-11/Starbucks idea will work so well but then again...I could be wrong on all counts.

Superchargedgtp

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> They are grasping at straws...

G for GRENADE

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> first person to spill his latte on an LCD gets one month of free netflix

kahri

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I don't understand the wifi obcession these days with stores and restaurants. Almost every fast food restuarant and store has to offer free wifi. Its almost like they're begging you to buy a soda and loiter there all day.

The only time it would come in handy for me is in best buy/gamestop/whatever when I'm about to spur of the moment buy a game and I need to check its ratings. But at Best Buy I go over to the pc section and check.

aurf

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @GeekGoth: I agree. If Red Box would start stocking a lot more great titles, they would make Blockbuster and its $4.95 rental fee a thing of the past.

David S

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> In 10 years the phrase "rent a movie" will have no meaning whatsoever.

blank

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Renting from my cable box = $5
Renting from Blockbusted = $4
Redbox and similar = $1

The Walmart crowd rejoices..

The_Drunk_IT_guy

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @scoobydoo:
I agree, I don't understand why these companies don't get how to make money. Find a niche and do what you do better (and cheaper) than anyone else.

Look at Netflix: They rent movies. They do it faster, cheaper, and with a greater selection than anyone else. They don't sell candy they don't rent games, and they are not trying to pad their revenue by selling blu-ray players.

Diversification is for investment portfolios and Target/Wal-Mart. I'd rather have a one-purpose shop that served a single need perfectly than another mediocre jack-of-all trades.

Secret Agent Man

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I guess you could go to a *store* to do these things... but I'd prefer to do them at home. With a computer and netflix, what is the appeal?

liveinvt

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Quick off-topic: There's something on this site that's really slowing down my browsing at work (probably ads).

Back to topic: To me, it sounds like Blockbuster is running out of creativity and this is their desperate way of gaining back market capitalization.

Board meeting...
Chairman: Hmm. Bottom line looks a little grim. Any ideas on how we can increase our revenue?
Guy across room: Ummm. We can sell stuff..



ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Holy Crap thats the Concept store of Circuit City called:

The City. same look different color.

strife1012

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @imaria: Agreed. 32 ounce Frozen Mt. Dew would go great with There Will Be Blood. Not quite a milkshake, but the principle applies.

MasterSauce

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> What they need to do is start carving a niche for themselves in the post-disc world. Imagine an alliance with Sony, Amazon, Microsoft, or Apple in which people drop in, browse the selection, plug their iPod/USB storage device in a kiosk and zap, a nicely DRMed digital copy that they can plug in to their set-top box/console/AppleTV at home and view. No running out of DVD copies, room for a massive library, no late fees, the old-fashioned "experience" of going to a video store, browsing, and making spontaneous movie-viewing decisions, without having to wait for hours for a download (as the library will be cached on in-house servers).

mikejonas

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Blockbuster has done ok trying to battle Netflix and the like, but it's probably a losing battle.

Trouble with Red Box: Never enough choices. 85% of the movies are the crap.

MasterSauce

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> The only thing that appealed to me out of that list was the fountain drinks.

imaria

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I'm confused... Does Blockbuster actually think that they will succeed at this?

Part-Time-Viking

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @Superchargedgtp:

I find it funny that many people associate the individual workers as ambassadors of company as a whole. No doubt I understand that employees should be properly representing their companies, I find it unfair that people can judge a company on a whole when on unpleasant experience from one employee.

But for this, this is an interesting move...I don't know if it'll work out. Who's going to go in looking to rent 2-3 movies and walk out with a 52 plasma?

exkon

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Shooting video at Blockbuster = amateur porn.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> @Jason: You pretty much summed up most of the crappy jobs filled by morons. I really would rather have a robotic arm help me than some idiotic, illiterate kid who thinks he knows everything.

innout3x3

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> This already looks doomed. It sounds like too much marketing, and not enough of what people actually want.

Unless they price their crap lower than Amazon or Bestbuy, I don't think anyone will ever buy their CE at the local Blockbuster.

Eventually they'll be stuck with 100 million in old merchandise, just like CompUSA.

scoobydoo

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I remember when DVDs first came out thinking, "Well, Blockbuster is going to have to get rid of all these VHS tapes and replace them with DVDs if they're going to make it."

Now with Netflix, VOD, Vudu, AppleTV and the rest, I keep thinking, "Well, this Blockbuster would make a good Pick-Up-Stix or Panda Express."

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> This looks almost exactly like a Radioshack C3 store. Not all Radioshacks use this layout due to space constraints, but most of the larger Radioshacks do.

blueforce4116

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> Last time I went to a Blockbuster (4 movies for $20) I about got in a fight w/ the kid working there...he was an asshole. I hope they fail and go under!

Superchargedgtp

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> wait...last I heard Blockbuster was buying Circuit City....so...is this why they're gonna sell gadgets now too?

jcrockerman

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> who rents movies anymore for these idiots? i got 2 words for ya, RED BOX cheaper easier and no scary looking blad guy trying to tell you what you should rent

GeekGoth

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> I really love what they've been doing lately. I go in to rent a fairly new release, and they're out of rental copies, but they have this nice section full of copies -for sale. If I wanted to buy whatever movie I'm renting, well honestly, I'd commit myself... But that's beside the point. I go to blockbuster to freaking rent my movie. Thanks for letting me rant about this here, consumerist--wait, gizmodo?! Sorry.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> By the way my grammatical errors are on purpose.

mizunoer

]]> <![CDATA[Blockbuster's Prototype Stores Look Like Best Buy]]> giving away fee? I are confused, they are feeing the give to the band concert? they will fix the typo and I will be an idiot.

mizunoer

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