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This morning dawned crisp and bright with the promise of new DVDs. I love waking up on Tuesdays (new release days). I headed out to Walmart with two goals in mind: V for Vendetta and Arrested Development, Season 3.

Just my luck, I got to Electronics and saw two employees (a middle-aged woman and an old, old man) in the process of re-zoning the entire New Releases section. Even though they're open 24 hours (and even if they weren't, night stockers anyone??) they wait until 8 am on new release day to re-do all the shelves. Bollocks. Trying to save time I asked the woman about V for Vendetta, since I could see the "W" and "U" titles were up already.

"V for Vendetta, V for Vendetta...." she mumbled to herself as she searched shelf tags. No luck. The old man had to put his two cents in, "That's been out for awhile, it's not a new release."

"Well, it's been out for less than a month," I corrected him. "I don't know how new is considered 'new' but..."

The woman went to the next aisle to search for it among the regular titles. Still no luck. She turned to me and said, "I don't see a slot for it. We must not sell it anymore."

Really. Well Jesus, I would have moved a lot quicker if I realized my window of opportunity was so small. She left me standing there without so much as an offer to look in the computer for backstock or anything. Thanks for the outstanding customer service, lady.

Left to my own devices, I began looking for Arrested Development with similar results, though this wasn't as surprising. Still, time was a-wasting and so was my patience. I came around the corner again.

"Oh," the woman looked up. "Here's the slot for V for Vendetta on the top shelf, so we'll probably get more soon."

"Great. I'm also looking for Arrested Development. Just came out today, so I KNOW that's a new release."

"Arrested what?" she asked me. I repeated myself, gritting my teeth.

The old man again chimed in. "Haven't seen any Arrested Development. We've got Desperate Housewives though."

Hmmmmm. Not exactly the same thing, but I guess it'll have to do. Is that what he was expecting? Go to bed, old man!!!!!!

It turned out they might have had some in the back, but the asking price was higher than I've seen it for online, so I took my leave. Walmart. Bunch of goddamn Philistines there. I ran to Target and both were way more expensive than they are online.

I walked through the front door empty-handed and fuming. Tery wisely ducked out of the way. I ordered them both online, in addition to this, because really, how could I be expected to resist it? (though not from Amazon, good god. DeepDiscountDVD.com has it for only $139.) Tery felt I fully deserved it for the frustrating morning I had, and that's why I love her so.

But I've lost so much respect for the Lord of the Rings franchise. Someone came up for air out of the vast mountain of money at New Line and realized that people weren't buying LOTR DVDs anymore, and they simply can't have that. So they've released ANOTHER FUCKING EDITION of the movies, if you can believe it. Enough, LOTR. Let. It. Go.

Date: 2006-08-30 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dopshoppe.livejournal.com
It's been pretty well proven in our lifetimes that Wal-Mart is the source of everything that is evil in life, besides zombies (and who knows for certain about that?). So why do we all keep going back?

For me, I think I just find the happy face soothing.

Date: 2006-08-30 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrgoyl.livejournal.com
Believe me, I know Walmart is evil and might bring about the downfall of free trade in the world, and I try my damndest to avoid them most of the time. But that doesn't change the fact that they sometimes have really really good prices, and my DVD fixation simply refuses to wait a few months until I can get a secondhand copy somewhere else. It's one of my failings, I realize.

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