Bryan X
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One Hour Photo is another title that my Wal-Mart only carries in FS.
I think adults should have the right to choose their entertainment content.And Wal-Mart has the right not to carry whatever they want. I will never buy CD's from them because of their policies (afraid I'll pick up censored crap by accident). I've always found it funny that they won't carry the uncensored Metallica album, which has a total of about 3 F words, yet they'll carry Clerks. I even saw Mulholland Dr. there before.
*boggle*
Maybe I'm lucky and my local Wal-Mart is a little more progressive than most. They also have great first week prices (though they pretty much suck after that). I got AOTC for $12 and FOTR:EE for $24 (that was a good day).
Another gripe about Walmart is their high prices on DVD's. They rarely have the lowest prices on any of them. When I do buy from them, I always make them price match and then they nit pick the ads. I say Boycott Walmart!!!The according to those guys in those commercials, "The prices! They're lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
The local store won't get my business.There ya go. I used to get all my DVD's at Circuit City, but since they hardly ever carry any of the non-popular titles I want, I've given up wasting my time in there.
Amazon has been my savior for many a year.
My Wal-Mart is usually 75%/25% in favor of Foolscreen. Sometimes they only stock foolscreen. One new release that comes to mind is There's Something More About Mary. (Shouldn't the real title be, There's Something Less About Mary???)I went to 2 different Wal-Marts looking for There's Something about Mary, and you're right only garbage, fool screen. I'm done with crap-mart.
Todd
but of course they caved to the peoples demands, and why not when all these people have new 16x9 tvs, the movie companies will get even more money for the widescreen versions because they will really be complaining about black bars.I don't think that when Joe 6 Pack gets his 16:9 TV they'll ever see the black bars on the sides. They will likely have the TV set to full mode to stretch the 4:3 movie.
I don't think that these people will be rushing to replace their full screen copies with widescreen ones. Someone who doesn't care if they are missing up to 40% of the movie will not care if it's stretch a bit.
You'd think that Wal-Mart would see that WS is beating out FS very consistantly in sales even with their own heavy favoritism of FS as a factor. You'd think they would wise up.It's all about the $. I promise if several big releases went by with W-M stocking just Full Screen and they didn't sell a single copy, but generated countless complaints from customers not being able to find OAR, they would start caring more OAR. When they stock, they must see those OAR discs sitting on the shelf longer than the Full Screens.
This is why you take your business elsewhere...That's fine if there is another option. For me, there is no other B&M option within an hour's drive.
Besides, if many of us who want WS copies stop buying the WS versions from Wal-Mart, the result will be that their FS copies sell to J6P and the WS copies sit on the shelf. This will just incorrectly reinforce the idea to Wal-Mart that FS is what everyone wants. In the event there is no WS copy, then yes, taking my business elsewhere is the only option. I will NEVER by a FS copy.
In the instances where Wal-Mart does not carry the WS version, I'll either wait until I am somewhere that carries it or I will order it online. But ordering online, for me, is not a viable alternative on a regular basis. I'd much rather hit a B&M on my lunch hour to browse and buy.