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It's a Friday night in 1999. You've been a good boy all week and your parents take you to blockbuster.
What do you get, pham?
>movie
>vidya
>snack
>drink
>1999
Lake Placid
Goldeneye
Reese's Cups
Mom yells at me that we have soda at home.
>>63324837
The Matrix
Pokemon Snap
Butterfinger BB's
RootBeer
>A Bug's Life
>no vidya til GameCube in 2001
>Reese's Cups
>Mountain Dew
>>63324909
>Mom yells at me that we have soda at home.
muh nig
>>63324837
>The Blair Witch Project
>Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
>Raisenettes
>Sprite
>>63324837
>>63325163
>Austin Powers
>Sonic Adventure
>no snacks cause pick up from Pizza Hut next door
>Pepsi from said Pizza Hut
;_;
In 99 I was 5 so
>Mulan
>didn't have a Playstation yet, and when I did I never liked the idea of renting games and only having them for a week
>nothing, snacks were overpriced and my parents knew better
>>63324837
>tfw still owe blockbuster 73 dollars
>>63324837
Sorry, I'm not a fatass so I got vidya and a movie.
>>63325976
How would anyone believe this?
>>63324837
>total recall
>mk 64
>dots
>none
>>63324837
Fuck off back to /v/ memeing faggot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvKEgPFxDo
>independence day
>bugs life for ps1
>pizza from pizza place across the street
>pepsi
Ask a former Blockbuster manager anything.
Go ahead.
Some quick things -
All of the scratched games we would get back would go into a pile that, one day, our GM was going to rent one of those machines that cleaned discs. We know he'd never do this he was too cheap, so we would take the games and sell them to the gamespot down the street. Sold 3 or 4 games at a time every month, got enough store credit to buy a ps3 and mgs4.
also used to jerk off in the office while i watched people shop, through that mirror thing that surrounded the store from above.
Would constantly steal money and blame it on new employees not knowing how to count the drawer correctly.
Would close the store early and sit in the office with my fellow employees, eat free candy and popcorn and watch movies on the test tv.
Best job ever, I get sad whenever I think about closing down :(
pic related is the last thing I took, not an exact pic of it but that one. My friend mike destroyed it so I left it over his house.
>>63326509
You sound like a really good employee I can't believe they went out of business
>>63324837
i get them to take me to JUMBOVIDEO fuck blockbuster
>>63326516
>>63326552
>>63326509
Why did you have to destroy things like posters and standees?
>>63326547
>>63326509
Aside from stealing money sometimes, yes I was a very good employee and did everything I could to make sure the store stayed open.
again, aside from actually stealing $10 for lunch every now and then.
and it's not like it was my specific store that went out of business, you're acting like me being a good employee would have prevented redbox and netflix from happening, ya know?
>>63326509
Did employees purposely fuck up scanning the drop box returns on time so people would get late fees? Seemed like common practice at mine, to the point where nobody every used the drop box and there was sometimes a line 10 deep of people returning movies.
>>63326583
What do you mean?
We didn't destroy them because the managers told us to ever, we would fuck up a hannah montana stand up thing sometimes but mostly we kept them in the back with the empty cases.
The only video store in Navarre, Florida was Network Video.
>>63326602
Definitely yes. But it happened so often that me and the other manager would just waive late fees if someone had a believable story.
We also had methods of preventing this like wall check, where we'd have a list of past dues and have to go through the wall checking to see if they were actually late or if someone just didnt scan it in.
short answer: purposefully, rarely. no.
>Buying snacks or drinks at Blockbuster.
>>63326509
What is the strangest movie rental request you've been asked to find?
What is the strangest one that you actually had for rent?
>>63326618
That's different. I've heard from Blockbusters and FYEs and such that after a certain amount of time, whenever they had to take down a poster, they were told to destroy it. Recently I spoke to one employee of an FYE who said he had to have his manager on the phone listening to him tear up this Stormtrooper poster when they were finished with it. And like I said, I've heard similar things from Blockbusters and other movie stores.
>>63324837
Godzilla vs Gigan
Crash Bandicoot
Reese's Peices
soda at home
>>63326689
i'm sorry that blockbuster didn't accept food stamps, poorfag
>>63326689
What do you mean by this? Do you think you're some high and mighty being because you didn't get a big sucker or something?
>>63325914
Damn. Your life sucked in 1999.
>>63326509
Fucking mike...
My family got banned from blockbuster
>>63326690
we had flyin ryan
and someone asked for it once non ironically
>>63326701
interesting! i wonder why that is.
we were a franchise so maybe we didn't have to because of that.
corporate BBs had all these weird rules, i can imagine that may have been one of them. We mostly kept the shit.
>>63326766
did motherfucker mike work at a blockbuster?!
>>63326509
How did you handle kids people breaking discs in the store and leaving or stealing candy?
>>63326689
cool i bet you had lots of friends growing up
>>63326509
Did anyone ever accidentally turn in their homemade porno instead of the movie?
>>63326855
That didn't happen normally
BUT
the manager who trained me was finishing up his last two weeks there, was telling me how much he couldnt fucking wait to quit, all the bad shit seems to happen to him etc, as if on queue, a little kid comes to the front desk and just PUKES this huge pile of green/brown smelly throwup.
my manager looked like he wanted to kill himself in that moment.
We were in a pretty rural area, but there were crackheads that would come in and try to steal, mostly we'd let them, but sometimes we'd catch them if they were being obvious and "ban" them from the store, only to have them come in the next week.
I used to take the little yellow locks with the magnet strips into urban outfitters and american apparel so the alarm beeper would go off when i was walking in, so after i walked out with a sweatshirt and some pants or whatever without paying, id be like "yeah it must be my phone its like this every time!"
good stuff
>>63324909
>Mom yells at me that we have soda at home.
r u me
>>63326922
no but we had free AOL discs in the store (this was 2009, so its still beyond me why they would have these here) and sometimes people would take a free disc and just return that disc inside the case for some reason? as if we weren't gonna call them, but this wasnt one of those stores where we took credit card info down, just a phone #. so if they give us a wrong #, they got a free movie basically.
>didn't have a Blockbuster in shitty-ass third-world country
>1999
>Men in Black, Godzilla and George of the jungle
>no miss, my dad wants me to rent it
>if only i had known how much his shit was gonna het fucked up
>>63326509
>also used to jerk off in the office while i watched people shop, through that mirror thing that surrounded the store from above.
wtf was the actual purpose of those one way mirrors supposed to be exactly
>>63326782
for why
>>63327049
good way of us, being all the way in the front of the store, could see what was happening behind all the shelves, see if anyone was stealing along the wall.
also, parts were a one way mirror so we could monitor parts of the store from the office.
Probably a one way mirror because it behooved us to keep uniformity throughout the store. A deterrent to thieves "maybe the this is a one way mirror, maybe this one is" etc
>>63324837
you know movie stores aren't completely dead. a lot of smaller towns still have them where people aren't all caught on to netflix. there was a media store which sold/rented CDs, DVDs and even VHS tapes down the street from where I lived as a teenager. my friend and I would walk down every week and rent DVDs, I remember watching fight club with him for the first time. there's something about the immediacy of streaming movies that isn't as magical, the feeling of gambling on a bad movie, renting it just because it has a cool cover is gone. and the feeling when you rent a random movie and its amazing, netflix can't compare
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who /sour candy/ here?
>>63324837
>blockbuster nearby becomes auto parts store
>they leave the ticket sign
>they just recolor it and put new text
>the auto parts store has a ticket sign
It's like they are mocking blockbuster
>tfw never bought candy at blockbuster
we had soda at home and I figured my parents wouldn't want to buy candy so I never asked
>>63327833
newfag
>>63327833
:) bye
what did your Blockbuster turn into, f a m?
mattress store here
>>63325830
noice
>>63327214
>kids
>not watermelon
step your game up, son
>>63328669
sprint, yogurtland, and...shit i forgot the third.
>>63328669
sushi restaurant and a dry cleaner :/
>>63328669
There was a blockbuster right next to a mom and pop ice cream store.
Now they're an AT&T store and a Moe's. My childhood is fucking dead.
>>63328669
Still vacant. Pretty sad seeing it when I drive by
>>63328669
Some kind of plan-your-vacation-for-you place or something. I don't even know why those places exist anymore either now that you can do all that online at your own convenience.
>1999
>The Phantom Menace
>Star Wars episode 1: Racer
>Popcorn, candy bars and gummy bears :3
>2 Liter of Root beer or Cola
Fuck you OP for making me remember my childhood and the shitty life I have now :(
>>63326509
i don't remember those mirrors can somebody post a pic?
>>63324837
Walk nest door to buy snacks/drinks, why pay 10x the price of an actual product like you're in the cinema just because they sell videos kek
>>63324837
>Wild Wild West
>We weren't allowed to rent vidya that often; maybe that Rugrats video board game or Pokemon Stadium when it finally came out
>"We came here for movies anon, we've got popcorn at home."
>Not even a question
>>63331962
I'm pretty sure I'm a manlet today because every time I mentioned that I was hungry my parents told me that there was food at home. Doesn't really help me here, does it?
>>63324837
>your parents take you to blockbuster.
Nah, we go to the local video store where it's cheaper so you get more for your buck, so we can rent more than one thing.
