Why do they do that?

I mentioned watching the latest addition to my DVD collection. For a long time I debated whether I should by any DVD's at all. If you take a hard financial look at the whole venture, buying DVD's a terrible investment. You can rent them for a $1, so you'd have to watch each movie 10, 15, 20 times before you'd see any payback. Of course buying DVD's not about saving money, it's about having all those cool cases lined up in a row and impressing your friends with your great taste in movies. I read an article a while back about how many folks never even take the plastic wrapping off, they just buy them and add them to the "line up".

As a follower of Christ, conspicuous consumption not an option, so I've really struggled with this. I finally felt at piece with the notion that I do like movies a lot, the list of movies I like enough to watch more than once not all that huge and it's very convenient to have them at your finger tips rather than running to the video store every time your in the mood to watch something. I made a list of which movies I wanted to buy, a bit longer than I expected, but reasonable. So every time I'm in Target, Sams Club, Best Buy or Circuit City I check out the DVD's.

My latest find, the Bruce Willis flick, Mercury Rising. Mind you, Mercury Rising didn't win any Emmy's, but I've always liked it. Something about the Simon character touches a part of me, I usually cry a couple times, so it made it on the list. While looking at Circuit City for something else, I scanned the DVD's and came across it for $7. I prefer to pay $10 or less whenever possible, so I picked it up and watched it tonight. Cried three times this time.

Question: Why don't they put the nice little flyers in the cases half the time? I opened up my nice new DVD and all I find inside, one DVD. I like that little slip of paper with the chapter list on it, comes in handy at times. Come on guys, does it really save that much money to leave it out?