The NON New Rental section of hell

[pabblo]

Since there many a BB employee around here, maybe you can explain the mass of awe full titles in the non new release section. I exclude foreign from that, they have good stuff. But everything else seems so old and with an average of a b+ movie. What happens when a new release comes to the end of its NEW run. What happens to it? Does it have to wait before making the shelves of the NON news? I think some of them never make it there. Or are they tried to be sold first? Is there a general rule of what the NON new release section does for the store? How does it fit in....in the grand scheme of things?

[Woodstock]

New releases generally stay on the wall for a year. You are more likely to see the Hollywood blockbusters make it to the non-new release (often refered to as the BSI section) than you are the obscure titles. Those ones tend to get rented out and a customer likes it and keeps it.

[rk237]

Since there many a BB employee around here, maybe you can explain the mass of awe full titles in the non new release section. I exclude foreign from that, they have good stuff. But everything else seems so old and with an average of a b+ movie. What happens when a new release comes to the end of its NEW run. What happens to it? Does it have to wait before making the shelves of the NON news? I think some of them never make it there. Or are they tried to be sold first? Is there a general rule of what the NON new release section does for the store? How does it fit in....in the grand scheme of things?

For the first year after a movie's release it lives on the new release wall. During this period its popularity gradually wanes, so extraneous copies are sold as previously enjoyed DVDs. After a year on the wall, there are usually only a small handful (one to five) copies of a title left, and at this point they are moved to the appropriate section on the floor (comedy, drama, etc).

Since there are anywhere from five to fifteen new titles released every week (sometimes many more), and the inner store size remains constant, you can imagine it is a delicate act maintaining a diverse and accessible inventory. Titles that do not contribute much revenue are removed and sold (or sent back to distribution) to make space for incoming titles. This is almost entirely dictated by headquarters. Additionally, the most popular older titles often accrue cumulative damage from seeing so much rental activity that the DVD eventually becomes ruined and unrentable, so the title is pulled, and it can take a while for a replacement to make its way to the store.

[pabblo]

What happened to the "Employees Selection"? Where one or 2 employees would have some rack space on the New wall filled with movies they liked. Sometimes they had very good selections, sometimes not.

[rk237]

What happened to the "Employees Selection"? Where one or 2 employees would have to rack space on the New wall filled with movies they liked. Sometimes they had very good selections, sometimes not.

Mine were always good selections. No "sometimes" about it. :)

An employee favorites section is never actually ordained by company, but is the result of initiative by the store personnel. Some stores have the section, others don't. Obviously requisite is space and the storewide willingness to pick and update individual choices. At periodic times, Blockbuster goes through phases when corp. (the abbreviated name employees use for "corporate headquarters") tries to force all the stores to realign to some kind of homogeneous standard. On these occasions, any employee favorites sections or other unsanctioned store mods are targeted and they have to come down.

[JackSM]

New releases generally stay on the wall for a year. You are more likely to see the Hollywood blockbusters make it to the non-new release (often refered to as the BSI section) than you are the obscure titles. Those ones tend to get rented out and a customer likes it and keeps it.

A Year? Wow. In the UK titles stay in the new release section for 8 weeks, then get moved to the cheap, genre split sections and there they stay until head office or the store manager decides they are not worth keeping or they are faulty.

[ClutztomerControl]

What happened to the "Employees Selection"? Where one or 2 employees would have some rack space on the New wall filled with movies they liked. Sometimes they had very good selections, sometimes not.

We have one in our store. Sorry your store sucks.

[sar94pga]

employee sections are not corporate mandated. so not all stores are allowed to have them.

[BBVcasualposter]

With the not so to the map bully-ness maybe you can have it again???

[sar94pga]

sure, just as a soon as i through away the pop for it. haha

[MissHailstorm]

A Year? Wow. In the UK titles stay in the new release section for 8 weeks, then get moved to the cheap, genre split sections and there they stay until head office or the store manager decides they are not worth keeping or they are faulty.

That's exactly what ours used to do, back in the day. Stay on the wall for a year or so, then move to the BSI, before we had this pink section gubbery.


I'm slightly confused by the OP. Surely you only put the best renters in the BSI, therefore it's more likely to be the wall where you find all the shite...? :confused:

[OzMan]

therefore it's more likely to be the wall where you find all the shite...? :confused:

Yeah, but the wall is NEW shite, and the sheep think it's OK to rent that.;)

[MissHailstorm]

Yeah, but the wall is NEW shite, and the sheep think it's OK to rent that.;)

After the new guys came in charge of Blockbuster and said they were gonna stop DVDs on trade-in, change the wall, and branch out onto Electronics and other formats, I made a bet with my SM that BSI would be gone within a year. My reasoning was that throughout the conference, everything was, "Customers want THIS! Customers want THAT! Customers aren't interested in this, they only want THAT!" However, I'm about to lose that bet, but - to be fair - we never stopped trading DVDs... :o

[CarnorJax27069]

I think it seems crazy when we state we have titles on the New Release Wall for 9 months to a year. But in all seriousness haven't we all at one point looked up a movie on the wall for whatever reason and thought, "WoW... that movie came out in ????... It seems like just yesterday I was getting it in and prepping it. I think the answer lies in that, LOL.

[RandomEmployee]

My store is the worst. We have movies on the wall from well over 15 months. Plus its just about the smallest store imaginable so it goes without saying.

[zooworker]

My store is the worst. We have movies on the wall from well over 15 months. Plus its just about the smallest store imaginable so it goes without saying.
If you have movues on the wall that are 15 months old, then someone is lazy there. We get weekly updates what to remove when a title hits 52 weeks.