{"id":425,"date":"2005-12-15T18:02:51","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2005-12-15T18:02:51","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T18:02:51","slug":"media_play_was_the_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/15\/media_play_was_the_first\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Play Was the First"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huh, this is interesting: according to an article<\/a> in yesterday’s Trib<\/i> about the Media Play situation, MP was one of the first specialized big-box stores (as opposed to more generalized big-boxes like WalMart and K-Mart) to arrive in Utah, preceding Best Buy, Circuit City, and Barnes and Noble. I either didn’t realize that, or had forgotten it. Big-boxes are so common these days, it’s hard to remember the way the landscape used to be without them.<\/p>\n

And here’s another little factoid: the first MP opened here in Novemeber 1993. It seems like they’ve been here a lot longer than that, and now I find myself struggling to remember where I used to go for all my media needs. I used to buy CDs at a locally-owned shop (now unfortunately defunct) called Tom-Tom Music, but I’ll be damned if I can remember where I bought my movies — Fred Meyer, maybe. Which, by the way, was acquired not too long ago by the Smith’s grocery-store chain and became Smith’s Marketplace, a move which did not impress yours truly. But come to think of it, a lot of the Fred Meyer stores used to be Grand Central stores back in the ’80s, before they were bought out themselves, and I didn’t care much for that change either. I remember that my friend Keith had a theory at the time that communists were attempting to demoralize we Americans by buying up all of our familiar stores and giving them new, lame-sounding names. And so it goes in the land of corporate takeovers and brutal retail attrition. I only wish someone knew what to do with the big empty buildings after the businesses fold, instead of leaving them to rot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huh, this is interesting: according to an article in yesterday’s Trib about the Media Play situation, MP was one of the first specialized big-box stores (as opposed to more generalized big-boxes like WalMart and K-Mart) to arrive in Utah, preceding Best Buy, Circuit City, and Barnes and Noble. I either didn’t realize that, or had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}