It's been about 10 years now since Blockbuster starting closing down it's stores. What is at your former Blockbuster store? Mine is a pet store and a Jamba juice.

In the UK here ... my local was turned in to a doctors surgery (a good thing) and some cheap town centre apartments (not so good).

The one in the next town over is still empty and still has its old sign up. I'll try and get a photo next time I'm over there.

Funny you mention BB, as I went to the cinema last week and had to "pay" for the first time in ages (we previously had monthly passes we paid a set fee for which allowed you to see as many movies as you liked, but the pass expired). It was £12.50 just for a single!! I thought for the first time how much I missed being able to rent a movie cheap and how I'd use that service more now that cinema ticket prices are so ridiculously expensive.

eye still have a blockbuster card. lol

Where I first got into sick horror.

A medical lab

kpowers said:

A Dress Barn

mELdOURADOsELVAGEM said:

the local goodwill

A animal clinic for dogs & cats.

There's been a couple.The one in Fresno was a Rite Aid for a few years, but It's been vacant for years now. Shame though, because the location and property are pretty nice. And the one in the East Bay(San Francisco area) is a PetFoodExpress.

I kind of miss going to places like Blockbuster Video, and renting and buying things. The internet is great for its convenience and its accessibility to merchandise, but it has its downsides as well. Honestly i wouldn't be all that disappointed if things somehow went back to the way they were before online shopping took over(or pretty much took over) brick and mortar stores. The convenience of shopping from home doesn't mean that much to me. It's just the access to product. In regard to that, the internet has brick and mortar beat. And bad.

JoeyC

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Well, in Oregon it's still a blockbuster.

An exercise training gym.

kewlschool said:

Well, in Oregon it's still a blockbuster.

kewlschool said:

Well, in Oregon it's still a blockbuster.

I love that Bloskbuster still exists somewhere.

My old neighbourhood Blockbuster is now a Carter's|Oshkosh B'gosh baby and children's clothing store.

Lammastide said:

kewlschool said:

Well, in Oregon it's still a blockbuster.

I love that Bloskbuster still exists somewhere.

It's the last one in the world.

StrangeButTrue said:

A Dress Barn

Ain't they going out of business too?

kewlschool said:

The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close

With the closing of a Blockbuster store in Australia, the one in Bend, Ore., will be the last to survive changes in technology and shopping that reshaped the way people watch movies at home.

Fifteen years ago, a movie fan could go into any of Blockbuster’s 9,000 stores and walk out with a Steven Spielberg hit.

Now, options are limited for those who want to rent a hard copy of “Saving Private Ryan” from somewhere other than a library. There are only two Blockbuster stores left in the world.

Very soon, there will only be one.

The second-to-last Blockbuster, a squat blue-and-yellow slab wedged next to a real estate agency in Western Australia, will stop renting videos on Thursday and shut down for good at the end of the month. Two stores in Alaska, part of the final group of Blockbuster outlets in the United States, closed in July.

That will make the Blockbuster in Bend, Ore., one of a kind: a corporate remnant, just off the highway, near a cannabis retailer and a pet cremation service.

But this is no elegy for Blockbuster, no lament for how Netflix killed the video star. There were plenty of those when the company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010, shriveled to 300 stores and then mostly closed.

This is about the ability of the Bend store, like sturdy links in other dying chains, to live on and avoid being turned into a pawnshop or a fast-food restaurant.

SOOOOO.....nobody's feeling me or giving me a high five on that old Slogan?


or was "WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE!" only reserved for SoCal Markets?