![]() ![]() a location that had its advantages and drawbacks. Videos found in your store, and how important were they to the business?Ĭhildren's videos were at the rear of the store. (children's videos or X-rated tapes, for example) did you rent/sell? Where were these In addition to mainstream Hollywood movies, what other kinds of videotapes Rumblings about DIVX, DVD's mutant clone came to nothing, as I knew they would. ![]() VHS and Laserdiscs when I started ( LD on the way out even then ), DVD just starting to take off when I left. What video formats did your store offer (i.e. After the fact it seems obvious that someone whose own personal ife was so messed up couldn't stand to see someone else happy. Shelley turned into a real "Do as I say, not as I do" boss, slacking on her scheduled shifts, screwing up on her paperwork, but always ready to write me up whenever my performance deviated slighly from codes outlined in the employee handbook. After I'd been thre about 6 months my wedding day came and when I got back from my honeymoon I could do no right. I'd often be left alone in the store for the better part of an afternoon while she and another female co-worker cruised the mall for cute guys. She had some personal dramas and I'd often listen to her tales of her psycho ex-husband (They'd been married about 6 months), Her crush on her former boss, and her medical woes. At first "Shelley" and I got along great - I was employee of the month 3 times in 6 months. When my first boss changed jobs his replacement was a young woman transferred in from another store. A soft-spoken, hard working guy he never really lost his cool, though occasionally he'd vent his hostilities by playing "Mommy Dearest" or disaster movies at high volume. What was your boss like? How did he or she divide the work in the store? PLUS Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes came in to shop one weekday morning. AND he was a Tuesday New Release day regular. In the end he blew about $2500 in one shopping trip. Every 'Star Trek', original AND Next Generation, Every James Bond. He browsed the stor indscriminately, looking for videos that would fill the shelves in his TV room - " Gimme all the 'Honeymooners' tapes y'got. ![]() A former body builder who invented some natural steroid derivative and made a fortune from it had a house built with a state of the art entertainment room. The other side of the coin, though, was a local muscle-head made good. He's carefully inspect every copy of "Sister Act 2" to find the one that was perfectly shrink-wrapped, exchange whatever he'd bought the previous week for it, and we all knew he be bringing it back the next Tuesday for whatever was released that week. One such customer bought a tape sometime, long, long ago - never opened it and every week came in to exchange it for that week's new release. You break it you bought it), Businessmen coming in for one item, buying it and leaving (customer of the year !), The afterschool crowd browsing the anime and wrestling videos ("You guys buying anything today?"), College age Hipsters on a between class break coming in to laugh at genre movie title, never buying anything, "Special" shoppers who browsed, then got out their carefully folded money (or zip-lock bags filled with change) and made their purchase before having to run for their bus. Senior Citizen mallwalkers at opening, Moms trying to navagate our narrow store with strollers and hyperactive kids (Good Luck, Lady. What were your customers like? What particularly memorable customers or events do you remember? That's not a playhouse !" I'd say, in what I tried to project as a stern but friendly voice, often getting the stink-eye from parents as they dragged their little ones away. "Look Mommy ! I'm Ariel !!" "Come on outta there. Promotional Standees filled the front window nicely, but too often little darlings would find their way into our front display. Unfortunately the displays we set up to promote the latest releases often acted as kid magnets. As a store in an enclosed mall we featured a large front window with TVs playing to lure the passers-by. The movies lined the walls and floor racks and we also sold much movie memorobilia - Posters, Books, T-shirts, Toys. The carpet might have been colorful and funky at one time. ![]() The walls were black, accented with red neon. Live and learn.ĭescribe your store - what did it look like? What were its distinguishing I suppose I thought that customers purchasing home video might be a bit brighter than a typical slack-jawed renter. Suncoast is sell-through rather than rental. Anyone that doesn't shouldn't be working in any capacity in the video retail field. Led you to choose the video industry, and this store in particular? In your own words, how did you get started working in video retail? What When did you start working at this store? ![]()
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