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I decided to upgrade all the speakers in my home theater yesterday after a pretty rough year and my birthday coming up, and originally I would have gone to Best Buy but I bought them elsewhere instead for the first time ever. gently caress em.
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 It is time to make your return my boy.
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lmao they must be removing the SKUs from their system - at least - the receipts online which usually always detailed what I buy in store now just list blank items for most everything except my last couple visits lol
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dorium posted:
The one at my mall is still shockingly going strong. Not quite the same but if this is where the exclusive steelbooks are going I'll take it.
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Jan 3, 2024 20:47
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The one at my mall is still shockingly going strong. Not quite the same but if this is where the exclusive steelbooks are going I'll take it. I wish i still had the one at my nearest mall.
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dorium posted:I wish i still had the
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abelwingnut posted:oh, one thing i've done at best buy over the last few years is recycle electronics. they're good at accepting everything but batteries. Edit: The county I live in has a great recycling center 10 minutes from my house. It’s a pull through one so you don’t even have to get out of your car. Cardboard and plastic bags are free to drop off. Electronics cost a pittance. I brought my old dishwasher there and they took it for $50. $15 cheaper than if Home Depot has hauled it off when I got rid of the old one. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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You're not missing anything. The local mall has a surprising 100% occupancy rate and the owners of the place just announced plans to turn a bunch of the parking lots into housing bc they can see the writing on the wall. Alas it does not have a Suncoast Sirotan fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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Physical media was typically a loss-leader situation at BBY. Easy way to get you in the door and then considering bigger, higher margin things. Maybe you wander over to appliances after browsing movies, that sort of thing. Between shrink from theft, shrink from damage, etc. and that when I wrapped my time w BBY in 2017, I was still saving only a couple of bucks on a Blu-ray at most. And that was about 5% above cost. They probably net the same amount of margin or more selling a Netflix gift card without all of the associated issues that a physical disc brings. But it’s an underrated way of staying front of mind! I think about Target a lot because I need home goods and cat litter and groceries. Best Buy, I used to check 20x daily for deals on media. And now it’s a lot less than that. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like when all the media is gone. I mean, you only buy other stuff at Best Buy occasionally. You don’t need a new camera more than once every 5 something years. A computer upgrade? Occasional. Appliance? Once in a decade (or two, hopefully). I think the removal of physical media won’t be obvious on their bottom line aside from maybe some better profit margin. But over time, I see it as just another part of contributing to the degradation of their physical retail spaces…and now even their online store! Like, even if they got rid of them from stores, I can’t imagine it would have been too terrible to ship any media from a couple of main warehouses. Like I mentioned the other day, I hate that I’ll have to track sales and prices against multiple retailers (Amazon vs KL or Arrow or Shout themselves) and just all the other extra hoops I’ll jump through for a 4K UHD of Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Even physical media is experiencing enshittification! Hell, we saw this coming with the disc holders. 20 years ago, a DVD stayed loving PUT. Now even premium sets have too thin of center holders and discs fly everywhere. Sorry, lots of thoughts as it makes me feel like an old person experiencing a shift like this.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Physical media was typically a loss-leader situation at BBY. I cannot believe this to be true, even for the old pre-covid $5 loose dvd/blu ray bins. Printed copy media is always a money printer as long as there's volume, real good money - because the only costs involved are license related. Printing a disc and it's case is under a dollar, the rest of the sticker price is a split of some kind. No retailer is losing money selling a $36.99 print of Insidius The Red Door. BBY just (likely a long time ago, from as long as I've heard employees there telling me it was being planned,) must simply have made a call that the sales volume wasn't living up to the store floor square footage and decided they could do better elsewhere. Just in time for everyone to be getting fed up with streaming - slow rear end business behaving slowly.
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 This is a receipt from June 2017. I’d be interested to see how the margin may or may not have shifted with 4K. But you can see that deals like that Buy 2, Get 1 definitely wipe out the margin that those first two titles may have provided the company. Boywhiz88 fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Jan 4, 2024 |
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gently caress it, I picked up Die Hard, Independence Day, and Goodfellas UHDs from BB. my local stores have the weirdest selection of stock and I'd have to drive all over to get anything else I find particularly interesting so I just stuck with those three that were eligible for free shipping kinda tempted to go get The Fifth Element but the local record store has it and I don't mind saving myself a drive + supporting local business, even if I have to pay a little more for the disc
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dorium posted:
This is my poison.  I have good memories with this specific store. I would head down here on Fridays with a guy I used to work with a university film library (and occasionally one of his flatmates), and we'd go DVD shopping back when that was the dominant format. Whenever I'm in town, or when I'm at the local mall, I usually pop in for a mosey around the store and see what they have. It's how I ended up wth the complete set of the 60s Batman TV series, the Arrow release of Zardoz, Patton and The Hustler steelbooks and the combined set of The Raid and The Raid 2.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The one at my mall is still shockingly going strong. Wait, Suncoast still exists...at all?
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Wait, Suncoast still exists...at all? I had to check. There’s 3 of them left in the US. It was absorbed by FYE, which is also dying.
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For anyone taking advantage of Vinegar Syndrome’s subscriber week deals, Rebels of the Neon God for ten bucks is a great deal
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Jose Oquendo posted:I had to check. There’s 3 of them left in the US. It was absorbed by FYE, which is also dying. I'm actively hoping FYE dies off (they're a pyramid scheme).
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Nightmare Cinema posted:I'm actively hoping FYE dies off (they're a pyramid scheme). Ok, I'll bite. I gotta hear more about this.
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I don't know about pyramid scheme necessarily but FYE did run a huge scam for a long time. They were sued for their "rewards program" which provided lovely discounts on random poo poo like gift cards to other retailers. Their program charged you $11.99/month and required you to call one specific phone number and go through an early-00s AOL esque gauntlet of customer service reps in order to cancel. Tons of people signed up for these accounts thinking it was a regular customer loyalty program and not something that they had to pay every month for. Even after they restructured, it apparently still exists according to their website: quote:There are two types of the Backstage Pass program:
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The next Janus Contemporaries release is going to be a documentary about David Lynch and the Wizard of Oz.
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Lynch/Oz got a big push from my local arthouse, added to the Criterion Channel quickly, and now this. I love David Lynch, but it feels a little excessive. I'll probably watch it after I've watched Inland Empire but it sure is getting some praise. Would like to figure out what it's all about.
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dorium posted:
The one in Portland has closed, sadly. Bought plenty of kung fu DVDs there like 10 years ago.
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I miss Strawberries. I feel like there was a Coconuts at one point as well that was part of the same company.
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That's Legendary Godzilla on the front cover, just with -1.0's spines photoshopped on. 
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barnold posted:I don't know about pyramid scheme necessarily but FYE did run a huge scam for a long time. They were sued for their "rewards program" which provided lovely discounts on random poo poo like gift cards to other retailers. Their program charged you $11.99/month and required you to call one specific phone number and go through an early-00s AOL esque gauntlet of customer service reps in order to cancel. Tons of people signed up for these accounts thinking it was a regular customer loyalty program and not something that they had to pay every month for. Yeah they got me like a year ago for their "free rewards program" (cashier's words) because it took like 20% whatever I was buying that day, then a month later got a surprise charge on my statement. gently caress that store.
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The new VSP release today is Divinity  this film rules and is super weird. Eddie Alcazar is to me what Panos Cosmatos is for everyone else. High recommendDaily deals are: Boggy Creek 2 Scary of Sixty-First Expect No Mercy The Laughing Dead Steel and Lace Scared to Death Alien Private Eye Luz So Long Billie Through the Fire Knife+Heart Burglar from Hell gently caress the Devil 1 and 2 Justice Ninja Style Luz and Knife+Heart are my Recommends Gripweed posted:The next Janus Contemporaries release is going to be a documentary about David Lynch and the Wizard of Oz. Lynch/Oz rules, I got to see it for Fantastic Fest in 2022. Recommend Erin M. Fiasco posted:Lynch/Oz got a big push from my local arthouse, added to the Criterion Channel quickly, and now this. I love David Lynch, but it feels a little excessive. I'll probably watch it after I've watched Inland Empire but it sure is getting some praise. Would like to figure out what it's all about. It's 6 video essays of David Lynch enthusiasts exploring connections between his work and The Wizard of Oz in the aftermath of a 2001 NYFF screening of Mulholland Drive where Lynch, answering a question of "can you talk about the influence of Wizard of Oz on your work?", responded that there's not a day he doesn't think of that film The Lynch enthusiasts aforementioned are: critic Amy Nicholson The Nightmare director Rodney Ascher John loving Waters Karyn Kusama Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and David Lowery I found it fascinating personally, but also: you very much know from this description and those names if it's a thing you'll be into or not. I absolutely was
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Chris James 2 posted:
Okay yeah, I've been underestimating it. Anything involving John Waters, David Lynch, and Karyn Kusama I'm right-the-gently caress-there. That sounds fantastic. Once I've watched Inland Empire I'm going to watch this on my own.
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I ordered Luz and The Scary of 61st. Hopefully I only regret one of them.
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Gripweed posted:I ordered Luz and The Scary of 61st. Hopefully I only regret one of them. Eh, you might regret Scary of 61st. I bought it and... it's something. I don't know if I would've necessarily bought it, having watched it now.
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I saw that one at a festival and it seemed very happy with itself. Read just a tiny bit into the backstory of the people that made it and instantly regretted it
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VoodooXT posted:Eh, you might regret Scary of 61st. I bought it and... it's something. I don't know if I would've necessarily bought it, having watched it now. Yeah I take it for granted I’m gonna regret it. I think I was just overcome with grim curiosity. morestuff posted:I saw that one at a festival and it seemed very happy with itself. Read just a tiny bit into the backstory of the people that made it and instantly regretted it Yeah it’s the movie made by Adam Friedland’s ex-girlfriend.
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I realized today that I want a Heathers UHD. Someone give us Heathers. Someone buy Heathers on Blu-Ray so we can get it on UHD. I don't want to be the sacrifice!
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Boywhiz88 posted:I realized today that I want a Heathers UHD. Someone give us Heathers. Someone buy Heathers on Blu-Ray so we can get it on UHD. I don't want to be the sacrifice! I did a while ago. Of course, there's a monkey's paw out there somewhere and instead we get a UHD of that TV series instead.
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Fffffffuuuuu Unearthed is releasing a Guyver UHD in May
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 This will go well with my VHS of the movie. I'm so fond of it, flawed as it is. https://twitter.com/dawnofthediscs/status/1743400387963503043?t=L7TsgPUa-MvrfvpEv4dopw&s=19
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I’ll be having that. I politely demand that all of you, even the ones who don’t care about The Guyver, buy it as well to increase the chances of them doing the sequel.
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Originally I only heard about someone doing a 4k of Dark Hero, don't remember anything about this one, but hopefully it's already in the works.
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