My Apologies to Media Play!
06-30-01 | 10:52 PM
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Hi All!
Back when I still lived with my folks, I used to occasionally visit a Media Play (is it MediaPlay?) close to their house. Worst store in the entire world! For instance, all of the "World Music" was just dumped into a 20-foot long rack with no organization whatsoever, so you had a Cajun CD next to a Jamaican one that was next to an Indian one, that was next to an Australian one, etc. They didn't even bother with category headers! Also, the "pop\rock" CDs were laid out in such a way that once you got to the end of an aisle - say at "The Eagles", if you turned the corner you'd find the "ZZ Top" CDs and not "Eminem" as you might expect. And they *never* had anything that I was specifically looking for:
CLERK: "Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' CD? No, according to the computer we don't have it. Says we've got 847 copies of 'Like a Virgin", though..."
Anyway, I bad-mouthed them for years after several bad experiences in that store.
I visited another MP on the other side of town yesterday looking for a VHS copy of "Glengary Glen Ross" (not on DVD yet). After going to Best Buy, Circuit Shitty, Sam Goody, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and a couple of others, I was running out of ideas and MP was my last hope. AND THEY CAME THROUGH!!!
Not only did they have GGR, the shelves were in excellent shape - jammed to the brim with VHS tapes and DVDs - 99.8% of which were in perfect alphabetical order. They had a MUCH better selection than the rest of the stores in the area, and while their prices were high - of course - they appeared to be a couple of bucks cheaper than the other 3 dozen places I visited that day - $21.99 or $22.99 for DVDs that Sam Goody had for $29.99 and BB\CC had for $24.99. Picked up a copy of Madonna's "93:99" DVD for less than $20 and they even sold cold Diet Dr Pepper!! And while they only had 1/2 the customers the Best Buy across the street did, they had twice as many cashiers!
And so for all these things I officially apologize to you, Media Play. Maybe the Duluth, Georgia store just sucks, but their Northpoint store came through! I'd like to recommend Media Play to the folks at DVDTalk as a good B&M that has way more titles than your "average" store at good (not great, but good) prices.
Rex
Back when I still lived with my folks, I used to occasionally visit a Media Play (is it MediaPlay?) close to their house. Worst store in the entire world! For instance, all of the "World Music" was just dumped into a 20-foot long rack with no organization whatsoever, so you had a Cajun CD next to a Jamaican one that was next to an Indian one, that was next to an Australian one, etc. They didn't even bother with category headers! Also, the "pop\rock" CDs were laid out in such a way that once you got to the end of an aisle - say at "The Eagles", if you turned the corner you'd find the "ZZ Top" CDs and not "Eminem" as you might expect. And they *never* had anything that I was specifically looking for:
CLERK: "Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' CD? No, according to the computer we don't have it. Says we've got 847 copies of 'Like a Virgin", though..."
Anyway, I bad-mouthed them for years after several bad experiences in that store.
I visited another MP on the other side of town yesterday looking for a VHS copy of "Glengary Glen Ross" (not on DVD yet). After going to Best Buy, Circuit Shitty, Sam Goody, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and a couple of others, I was running out of ideas and MP was my last hope. AND THEY CAME THROUGH!!!
Not only did they have GGR, the shelves were in excellent shape - jammed to the brim with VHS tapes and DVDs - 99.8% of which were in perfect alphabetical order. They had a MUCH better selection than the rest of the stores in the area, and while their prices were high - of course - they appeared to be a couple of bucks cheaper than the other 3 dozen places I visited that day - $21.99 or $22.99 for DVDs that Sam Goody had for $29.99 and BB\CC had for $24.99. Picked up a copy of Madonna's "93:99" DVD for less than $20 and they even sold cold Diet Dr Pepper!! And while they only had 1/2 the customers the Best Buy across the street did, they had twice as many cashiers!
And so for all these things I officially apologize to you, Media Play. Maybe the Duluth, Georgia store just sucks, but their Northpoint store came through! I'd like to recommend Media Play to the folks at DVDTalk as a good B&M that has way more titles than your "average" store at good (not great, but good) prices.
Rex
