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Alaska's Last Two Blockbusters Are Closing, Leaving Just One In the US (adn.com)
According to Anchorage Daily News, the two remaining Blockbuster stores in Alaska are set to close, leaving just one location left in the United States. The last one standing in the U.S. is in Bend, Oregon. From the report: The stores, one on DeBarr Road in Anchorage and the other in Fairbanks, will close Monday for rental business, a post on the Facebook page for Blockbuster in Alaska said Thursday afternoon. They will reopen at noon Tuesday for an inventory sales that will run through July and August. Thursday's news follows a smattering of other recent Blockbuster closures across the state, which had 13 Blockbusters in 2013 and was down to nine stores by 2016. As Blockbuster stores disappeared from most of the Lower 48 in recent years, the brand long managed to persist in Alaska. Some have said expensive internet here is one reason why. The stores have also been a destination for some who visit just for the nostalgia.
What is a Blockbuster?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alaska_state_prisons
The stores have also been a destination for some who visit just for the nostalgia.
Must not be much to do! Which I guess explains Sarah Palin
That will be a sign of the End Times.
Armageddon starts when there is no longer a Blockbuster to hold back the gates of Hell.
short term stunt turned out a lot more short term than expected.
I hope they had a contract that in the event of closure they would had to send it to any remaining Blockbuster store (thus Bend, Oregon would get it.)
Then again, maybe they got an offer they couldn't refuse for the memorabilia and that is why the stores are shutting down now. They can finally retire to Miami like they always wanted :)
Their site lists many more franchises still: http://www.blockbuster.com/fra...
Gotta wonder how much of the ratings are nostalgia:
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
Do you have ESP?
I stopped renting from them when they shifted their renting model from 1 night to 3nights or a week for more than I was willing to pay to rent a movie. I think it was $10 or something to get it for the week. I was willing to pay the 3-5 for the night but not $10.
Doesn't bring 'em in the way it used to
The stores, one on DeBarr Road in Anchorage
But where do Alaskans go then to have their memory wiped after renting Disney movies!?
The last Blockbuster is in captivity.
The galaxy is at peace.
I guess I can throw out my Blockbuster card now. I was saving it for my trip to Alaska.
If you're referring to the Big Rip, that's not currently believed likely. If you're referring to the black hole information paradox, there's probably not a lot of reason to believe that information can be destroyed. It's not really proven, but it's highly likely that information is a conserved property.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
With a Blockbuster sign in the background, you have to go to Oregon, or Brazil, or Australia...
*** Suerte a todos y Feliz dia!
If its a similar story to a recent one i heard about, they cant get product anymore. I am not sure why they couldnt get dvds, as i assume that they dont rent VHS anymore ( you can still buy dvds right?). Buy anyways sounds like the parent distributor is closing up shop.
Comox Valley's last video store to close, but not due to lack of demand
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The worst kind of nerd measures themselves by pop culture references.
You're like the fake nerd girl vlogger except you need real glasses and nobody except me beats off to your boring youtube videos.
In the end there can only be one
Nothing compares to that experience. Plus, I loved buying old DVDs after some new movie hit the shelves and they had to shed the 100 copies of it they had in stock. I got "scammed" by a redbox that wouldn't accept my movie back (then I got hit with late fees) so I won't touch those damned things.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
Evil has decided to focus on on the POTUS.
Expect Trump to lie and mislead people and charge people's credit cards late fees for returning videos on time.
I'm not sure it's ok to have so much evil so concentrated.
Even the most expensive iTunes rentals today are simply on par with what Blockbuster was charging decades ago.
That may be true of urban wired Internet, not so much of satellite or cellular Internet where many plans still have data transfer overage fees on the order of 5 to 10 USD per gigabyte.