I love taking trips over to Zia. And I've been making those trips since the 80's! The thing you have to keep in mind is not to have your pursuits set on finding that one particular item. If there's a DVD title I've been searching for I'll have a few others I've been hoping to pick up as well. If you make enough visits over the course of a year you'll eventually come across everything you could possibly desire.
I have to give Zia credit for staying current. A lot of record/movie stores (Tower Records, Borders) failed in recent years when they denied trends that were taking place within the industry and with consumer ideals. Zia switched out from leaning heavily on CD profits to shoring up sales with DVD, video game, vintage LP's and various gift items.
What else has changed? The snooty, elitist, unapproachable employees have mostly been replaced. The 90's employees acted as if they were to good to be there and rarely made eye contact. With the recession comes a more eager to help crop of employees. Thank goodness for that.
As far as Zia's ever expanding collection of both used and new DVD's, there is entire section of Criterion special edition discs. Brazil, Videodrome, The Last Emperor, The Killing and Fellini's 8 1/2 were all there recently. I picked up Stanley Kubrick's The Seafarers over there and I'm pretty sure I'd only seen that for sale on Amazon. I also scored a used copy of Yushiro Ozu's The Floating Weeds. Talk about a rare find!