I need some opinions

Batgirl · March 19, 2003

I was watching Fox News channel last night and they showed a commercial selling 3 war movies. Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora! and one I don't remember. This prompted a discussion between Tim and I about the war movies in my store. He said I should feature my war movies on an endcap at the front of my store. I was surprised by this statement because my assistant manager also said the same thing earlier that day.

I asked Tim why he thinks I should do that and he feels it would be patriotic and people will be interested in the war movies.

What do you guys think? I don't have a problem with it, I just wouldn't know how to respond to anyone who would.

General Lee 01 · March 19, 2003

It sounds like a good idea, but you might have the ocaisional customer saying "What the h*ll?! We're at war and some A**hole is trying to make money off of war movies! I'm never coming here again!".

Just some food for thought.

MiSdIrEcTeD_1 · March 19, 2003

I dont see anything wrong with it... It'd be a smart move as far as Im concerned. :thumb:

To anyone that said anything or asked about why, just tell them that youve had a lot of people looking for them lately and so you decided to allocate them for everyone.

MarkD · March 19, 2003

Sounds like a good idea to me. Someone thinks there is an interest out there, or they wouldn't be marketing them on TV. :thumb:

Wingnut · March 19, 2003

It sounds like a good idea, but you might have the ocaisional customer saying "What the h*ll?! We're at war and some A**hole is trying to make money off of war movies! I'm never coming here again!".

Just some food for thought.

I agree, I would tend towards thinking that it's beeing a little opportunistic.

But I'm an odd nut too.

You do what you want...Or what you think your movie watching demographic would want.

Elwood · March 19, 2003

I say do it. Sounds like a good idea to me. More people will be interested in that stuff for a while.

BTW, was the other movie in the advertisement "A Bridge Too Far"? They used to advertise those three together back when Pearl Harbor was coming out.

Batgirl · March 20, 2003

Well...I did it. It went ok. I had a few people looking for Patton and Pearl Harbor. When I took them to the endcap they had no problem with the display. I saw a few people looking at it and no one said anything. We'll see how it goes. Too bad I didn't have any good movies about us kicking some Iraqi ass...