Posted on 10/09/2004 8:53:27 AM PDT by narby
The most valuable real estate in a retail store is right at the checkout counter where impulse purchases happen. Anything a store puts here has a huge advantage in sales.
I just returned from the Walgreens store in Fountain Hills AZ, where they had a small display of Farenheit 9/11 DVDs right next to the cash register. This was the only movie I saw in that vicinity. Since Walgreens isn't a movie store, it's not like F9/11 was stacked in with other DVDs. It was the only DVD there.
Vendors work overtime trying to get their product placed in such locations. The store can pick and choose among many items to put in that most valuable of locations. Walgreens obviously has chozen to make it's stores a partisian promotional outlet.
I won't be returning to Walgreens. Ever.
Walgreens has made it difficult to find e-mail addresses to it's corporate offices. Hopefully someone here can direct me where to send my complaint.
Same thing at our local Wal-Mart. A whole display. This is completely out of hand. Nov. 2 will tell us everything we need to know.
https://www.walgreens.com/contactus/email/general_email.jhtml?faqId=HIPAA_filecomplaint.xml
Copy this link to your address bar and give em a piece of your mind. It may have been that store manager but that is all the more reason to let the big wigs know. A poor business choice non the less.
I'll check my local Walgreens and let you know what I find.
My suggestion would be to pick up the whole lot of DVD's, put them in your shopping cart, and as you shop around in the store, put them up for display at various parts of the store, in a somewhat discreet location.
The retailers make out like bandits too because big points premiums are taken for that space.
They're scraping the bottom of the voting barrel to get the last bit of dumb dem voters stimulated who we're to cheap to waddle into the multi-plexs.
I have only been in walgreens once and that was enough, they did not honor tricare insurance, the pharmacy told me in no uncertain terms they dont accept military insurance.
If you find them, you might accidently turn the first copy backwards.
Only morons who are already going to vote for Kerry would waste their money on that crap.
Same thing at our local Wal-Mart.
My local Kroger store in Apex, NC has a huge 9/11 display in the front of the store near the cash register rows. The display is bigger than I have ever seen there. Hmmmmmm
Is this retail madness happening elsewhere?
I walked next door from work to a Walgreens. No DVDs on the counter. There was a rack nearby but in a quick scan I did not see any copies of F-911. I am just outside of Milwaukee, WI
Unbelievable! It's hard to believe that NC would allow such crap. This is Bush country. They must be doing it for Eddie.
Shucks, I thought the title said WALLDRUG.
I'm still waiting on a call back from Walldrug's Credit Manager, Helen Waite.
(The sign says "If you want credit at Walldrug, go to Helen Waite.)
In all the Walgreen stores I've been in, they always have a small DVD display by the register, which is usually used to highlight only the week's most recent release. Since F911 was released this week, that alone could account for the "promotion" you saw, and not any kind of partisanship on the part of that store, much less the entire chain as you imply.
Have you ever heard the parable of the boy who cried "wolf"?
Vendors work overtime trying to get their product placed in such locations. The store can pick and choose among many items to put in that most valuable of locations. Walgreens obviously has chozen to make it's stores a partisian promotional outlet.
You have "obviously" gone off half-cocked. You have no idea whether the display of F911 was due to Walgreens "choozing [sic]" to make "it's [sic]" stores a "partisan promotional outlet" at the corporate level, as you suggest, or whether the manager of the one store you were in was doing so on his own initiative -- or whether F911 was highlighted simply on the neutral criteria that it was this week's DVD release. Or even because the manager wanted to make some sales of a product, without any thought of pushing a political agenda.
I won't be returning to Walgreens. Ever.
I won't be relying on your judgment. Ever.
Walgreens has made it difficult to find e-mail addresses to it's corporate offices. Hopefully someone here can direct me where to send my complaint.
I suppose it never occurred to you to ask to speak with the manager at the store you were at? Or were you in too much of a hurry to go flying off in all directions and rush back to your computer to post unsupported accusations on a public forum like FreeRepublic, unhindered by any facts you might have turned up while talking to the manager about the display?
I am absolutely no fan of Michael Moore or his lies. But I'm also no fan of rants that can make conservatives look like knee-jerk eccentrics who cry wolf at the drop of a hat without bothering to get the full story before they go off in a huff.
Would "allow" what -- displaying and selling a DVD that was released this week?
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