A Blockbuster Free-Fall

• "Sorry to all who stand to lose their jobs when Blockbuster tanks, but I have to confess I will be very pleased to hear that this late-fee-charging, hassling, long-lined, customer-loathing behemoth has finally gone the way of Circuit City." And everyone said, "Amen".....

• Let me know when it enters Bluth Company territory. Always great to snap up a stock that moves from "don't buy" to "risky."

• It's a bit disturbing to see folks revel in the failure of a local business.

• Jim Keyes needs to face facts. Blockbuster is finished and he will be the guy remembered as the one who drove it off the cliff. Having tons of giant retail stores is not a competitive advantage. It is a DISADVANTAGE. Look at Redbox. They have something like 19,000 phone booth (remember those?) size kiosks all over the country at places like grocery stores, gas stations, pharmacies, Wal-Mart, 7-11, McDonalds, etc...There are seven Redbox locations less then two miles from my house compared to two Blockbusters. There are 19 Redbox locations three miles from my house compared to...two Blockbusters. I think the only way they can survive is this...Blockbuster should immediately close all their retail locations and fire all those wage slaves and replace them with kiosks. Then allow their customers to rent via their current DVD by mail or at the kiosk or both. That way you have access to a deep selection via mail or the most popular ones at the kiosk. NOTE TO JIM KEYES: These kiosks will spit out DVDs or Blu-Rays and NOT copy DRM'd files to a SD card that you have to watch on yet ANOTHER piece of hardware you have to connect to your TV. Of course you are already wayyyyyy behind the curve so you are probably screwed. But if you do decide to use my advice you can send me a $5M consulting fee care of this blog. I'll even give Robert a cut for initiating the subject.

• <i>Shut it down</i><b>-Liz Lemon</b>

• Sorry to all who stand to lose their jobs when Blockbuster tanks, but I have to confess I will be very pleased to hear that this late-fee-charging, hassling, long-lined, customer-loathing behemoth has finally gone the way of Circuit City.

• Blockbuster is optimistic about a new line of videos coming in February. At the first of the month we will stock a full line of Betamax and VHS tapes. Our market surveys have found that the demand for tape rentals is not being filled, so, we are naturally positioned to serve that market.

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