When this news came out yesterday, someone stationed at Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay Naval Base) called into a morning radio show in Norfolk and said the Blockbuster at the Exchange was still open. DVDs only, $2 a day, no late fees. (They just keep charging you $2 a day.)
The World’s Last Blockbuster Has No Plans to Close. Here’s Why It’s Still Open
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#22Those of us in the Midwest tend to laugh every time a variation of this story pops up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video https://www.familyvideo.com/storelocator/ The relevant bit from Wikipedia, "Unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes…
They were (are) also significantly cheaper than what Hollywood Video and Blockbuster were charging at their heyday. 15 years ago, often at BB and HV rentals would be $4-6, FV often had rentals from $1-3.
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#23Those of us in the Midwest tend to laugh every time a variation of this story pops up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video https://www.familyvideo.com/storelocator/ The relevant bit from Wikipedia, "Unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes…
At some point isn’t it a better use of the real estate for them to switch business models and start distributing something of higher margin and with more demand?
They could probably convert to coffee shops or gun stores and do better in those markets.
Not knocking gun culture. I lived and still often work in the Midwest.
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#24That's not the last Blockbuster in the world. There's one near me in Rome.
That's been closed for a while now...peek in the windows and see the desolation...what do you do in Rome? Not a native Italian but I left because of lack of tech scene(among other things)
> what do you do in Rome
I babysit a couple of WebSphere instances running on iSeries hardware, mainly. They call it DevOps, for some reason...
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#25Saving all of you a click: the article doesn't go into a concrete explanation of why they're not closing the last Blockbuster. It has a theory, however: >One possible explanation for the store’s long life: Bend is in a region that the city’s mayor, Sally Russell, describes as having “huge expanses with really small communities” that often do not have easy access to the high-speed internet necessary for content stream…
Eh, that's true about Bend but it doesn't explain why that one stayed and the Blockbuster in Anchorage (and hundreds of other similar places) closed. Vacation rentals keeping it in business?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's been closed for a while now...peek in the windows and see the desolation...what do you do in Rome? Not a native Italian but I left because of lack of tech scene(among other things)
Very much off topic but being in the process of choosing a "base" in the EU I'm curious to know where you ended up living, that has a good tech scene.
Due to my dual nationality, I had all of the US to (easily) choose from as well as the EU, so I actually ended up in NYC. The income differential as a senior software engineer was just too great to consider staying in the EU