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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!rwberry
- From: rwberry@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robert W Berry)
- Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.133419.7654@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Organization: Clemson University
- References: <1992Dec20.221339.17333@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec21.193237.488@bradley.bradley.edu> <28854@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:34:19 GMT
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- barnum@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Barnum) writes:
-
- >> According to rumor from friends who refuse to patronize BB,
- >>BB is a conservative dominated corporation. Just as Dominoes contributes
- >>portions of its pizza profits to the Right-To-Life crowd, so does BB.
- >>Additional conservative anti-civil liberties organizations (PMRC type
- >>stuff) are suppossedly also supported by a portion of BB profits.
-
-
- >Thanks for the tip. Now I know that Blockbuster is the place to go!!
-
- Since there's no smiley above, I'll chime in with:
-
- When I found out about BB's support of these organizations, I decided
- that BB is *not* the way to go. Unfortunately, they effectively put all
- of the other video houses in my hometown out of business, so I just
- stopped renting videos.
-
- Just another data point,
- Bob
-
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