{"id":148,"date":"2012-01-01T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2012-01-01T01:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T01:10:00","slug":"real-deal-or-rip-rogers-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/real-deal-or-rip-rogers-video\/","title":{"rendered":"“A Real Deal” or “R.I.P. Roger’s Video”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The only store I would frequent the last 3 years is Roger’s Video, actually a rental store, but I would pick through their previously viewed DVDs and bring them home by the half dozen every month or so. With their reward points system and regular sales, I’d get the usually mint condition movies for about $5.<\/p>\n

My local franchise, the Country Hill Blvd location, closed its doors in August. I was sad. Since then, I’ve been meaning to head to the Silver Springs location, but I simply haven’t thought of it enough.<\/p>\n

Last night I remembered as I was driving out of Co-op and found a nearly empty business. 4 parallel shelves and a mostly empty wall held a few DVDs and 3 guys stood around the cash registers. Big signs hung in the windows: Buy 1, Get 3 Free<\/i>. My lucky day!<\/p>\n

I took a good 45 minutes preening through the alphabetical collection and carried a large stack of DVDs to the counter. I left my Roger’s Star Rewards card and $110.15 (tax incl.) with the kindly soon-to-be-unemployed video store clerks and walked out 40 movies richer.<\/p>\n

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