[schwartzworld]

I worked at blockbuster. Sure, we had the wall of new releases and occasional promotions, but the rest of the store was organized quite simply. First by genre, then alphabetically. You could opt into curation, but it wasn’t the majority of the store.

[swasheck]

yeah. the primary algorithm used by bbv was which titles, and how many, were sent to the store. i worked for bbv and picked up shifts at different stores around my metro area and it was always interesting to see which stores had the “indie” titles and which had the high volume, popcorn title new releases. one of the biggest titles i can recall was independence day. my home store got a decent amount, but then i covered for someone at another store the next weekend at a high volume store and the number of id4 new releases was insane.

another store i transferred to had a healthy supply of laser disc titles and members of the local professional basketball team essentially supported that store’s laser disc business.