I just got home from Blockbuster and I am impressed. Their "bricks and mortar" store is connected directly to the online rent-by-mail service, and as far as I can tell, the connection is real-time.
I have the online plan where they send me one movie at a time via the mail (like Netflix), but I get the added advantage of getting a free rental and an immediate return of the mailer. Its great that I can have a different movie almost every 2 days with this setup, but that's not what this post is about.
Yesterday I went online and put Futurama "The Beast with a Billion Backs" on the top of my Queue. Today, I went to return a mailer and get a free movie... and lo and behold, the Futurama "The Beast with a Billion Backs" movie was right there on the shelf! I formed a plan to rent the movie, and rush home and remove it from the queue. I raced home and within 5 minutes I was in my online blockbuster queue. I was greeted with an alert that said that I had just rented Futurama "The Beast with a Billion Backs", and that it was also in my queue... and would I like to remove it from the Queue?... and would I like to always remove rented movies from the queue.
I'm impressed that they have this feature, but I'm more impressed that the system kicked in SO fast! Wow.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Blockbuster Knew
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