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Sep 6, 2014 · Blockbuster’s fatal flaw wasn’t one of intelligence or capability, but a failure to understand the networks that would determine its fate.
- Ben Unglesbee
- 1977. Twentieth Century Fox becomes the first studio to make its films available on video.
- 1985. David Cook opens the first Blockbuster store.
- 1987. Wayne Huizenga joins as investor, becomes CEO.
- 1993. After bulldozing its way across the country, Blockbuster has nearly 3,600 stores.
Nov 8, 2013 · News this week that Blockbuster will shutter its remaining 300 retail stores was greeted with the typical pithy analyses about the Internet changing everything. They’re all wrong. Digital...
- Blockbuster's History of Censorship: Controversy Explained
- Blockbuster's Controversial Business Practices
- What The Blockbuster Controversy Overlooks
The conversation has been heating up with social media discourse on the subject, with Twitter user CFunderberg providing a thread on excellent background about Blockbuster’s involvement in censorship through their right-wing fundamentals of the 1990s. Unknowingly to many patrons, Blockbuster pandered to right-wing ideologies by censoring indie, mai...
When many look back on the errors of the Blockbuster era, it’s about how they were one of the many sectors of mainstream culture that bulldozed family-owned, local businesses and replaced them with the big brand corporation. If set only a few years later, Stranger Things' Steve and Robinwould be applying to work at a Blockbuster. College towns, sma...
Looking back on Blockbuster’s shady practices, it’s nearly impossible to be mad at the movie lovers who had memberships to the chain and supported them through renting their movies. The internet wasn’t around to introduce such poor business tactics as widely and easily as it is today, meaning many people didn’t even really know, they just knew they...
- Streaming Movies/TV Features Editor
In 1992, Blockbuster acquired the Sound Warehouse and Music Plus music retail chains and created Blockbuster Music. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In October 1993, Blockbuster took a controlling interest in Spelling Entertainment Group , a media company run by television producer Aaron Spelling . [ 35 ]
Jul 21, 2022 · Now Blockbuster customers with Total Access were not only able to order three DVDs (just like Netflix), and trade them in faster, but immediately go to a store and rent up to three more. According to Better Marketing , Blockbuster even scratched their infamous late fees.
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Oct 7, 2019 · With one store left in the world, the video rental chain's approaching extinction is a reminder of all the things that can go wrong in retail.
