Tincture July 17, 2018
Here’s a newsflash: there is now only one Blockbuster store left.
It’s hard to discern what is more newsworthy about that sentence: that there is only one left, or that, in 2018, there are any Blockbusters left. After all, Netflix and other streaming services decimated Blockbuster’s once powerhouse business, to the point it went bankrupt in 2011 and Dish Network bought its assets.
The last corporate stores closed in 2013, leaving an increasingly small number of privately-owned stores who licensed the name. Two Blockbusters in Alaska announced last weekthey were closing, leaving the Blockbuster store in Bend, Ore. as the sole remaining licencee.
The national news media was fascinated by the story, with profiles in The New...