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- From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: (Unsolicited) advice against Blockbuster
- Message-ID: <BD.92Dec23131105@fluent.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:11:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.221339.17333@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec21.005238.20089@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1h4vi9INNhbj@morgause.cs.purdue.edu> <1992Dec21.193237.488@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Sender: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
- Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH
- Lines: 39
- In-Reply-To: guru@camelot.bradley.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 19:32:37 GMT
-
- guru@camelot.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan) 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.
-
- Assuming this is true, I disagree with their politics but I don't have
- any problem with what they're doing. Us liberals do it all the
- time so I can't complain when conservatives do it. Mind
- you that doesn't mean that I'll help them raise the money
- to do it with...
-
- > From talking to a shift manager at a local BB, it seems as if
- >BB is a very fascist sort of business in terms of controlling what is on the
- >shelves, where it is on the shelves and such. He also seemed awfully
- >paranoid about me sending in a customer complaint card about how stupid
- >the organization of the videos are. He seemed to think that, such a
- >complaint (and video organization is a corporate policy) would get him
- >in some trouble...
-
- Can't speak to the fears of the manager, but to say that a
- company which decides what items it wants to sell is "fascist"
- is absolutely absurd.
-
- > I believe they require drug testing of employees (which is pretty
- >funny I think, sure wouldn't want one of those 17 year olds being so
- >stoned he fast-forwards the tape instead of rewinding it before putting
- >it back on the shelf, someone might get killed that way...).
-
- If this is true then it would certainly be grounds (from my
- point of view) to boycott.
-
- --
- Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH 03766
- bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu
- I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
- DoD # 0698
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