What went wrong?

What went wrong?

They didn't buy Netflix when they had the opportunity.

Didn't hop onto the streaming bandwagon before it was hot.

Netflix, as you know, was originally was just a movie rental service where you got them through the mail. They had foresight and realized that with people progressively getting faster internet speeds, a non-physical subscription service would be much more lucrative.

Millennials are lazy.

My local store was horrible with managing their inventory. You could steal shit from them and they would just assume that it had been rented out to somebody and they didn't have a record of it.

I know because I would steal things from them and then ask if they had that thing.

Technology

My local kino sanctuary closed last month, the pain is still hurting

>leto.jpg

They would have driven it into the ground I'm sure.

What a mad man, moms gonna freak.

00s nostalgia general?

They wouldn't have gone out of business if they didn't have shitty business practices. They never jumped on the streaming bandwagon when they should have

Streaming as a product and the fact it's easier to control access to media that way.

QUICK

You are going to Blockbuster on a Friday night and mommy says you can rent TWO movies and get TWO snack items

What are you getting?

(Free bucket of popcorn if the movies aren't complete shit)

Blocbuster sucked.

Shitty selection in on older titles, and they didn't even have an erotic thriller section.

Working at VIP Video as a teenager were was the best job ever. I stole so many hardcore porn tapes.

That fucking single serving bag of pickle

Does Netflix still do the mail rental service?

Can the movies be modern-day releases?

Not to my knowledge. I haven't used it years.

Streets of Rage 2 and Under Siege.

Gummy bears as well.

They still sell those at Publix but they aren't as garlicky

No jerkoff, you take your Biodome and Weekend at Bernies and you enjoy it

I'm so sick of you suburban utopia dwellers of the days gone past. I was lucky to get a movie OR a game let alone even consider a snack.

Yeah there's a lot of movies that you can rent that aren't on their streaming

fucking richfags
i got to look at games while my mom picked out one of their 2 dollar movies
i maybe got to rent one game once every couple months
and we never got snacks or soda

In that case: Phantom Menace and Empire Strikes Back on VHS, with Twizzlers and crispy M&M's.

>being poor
LMAO

AY YO KIDS DON'T EVEN ASK FOR POPCORN WHEN WE GET TO TO THE MOVIES...HERE I MADE YOU THESE BROWN PAPER SNACK BAGS WITH DOLLA STO CANDY STICK EM IN YOUR SHIRTS

check'd

How does this manage to stay in business? The one near my house is packed on Friday nights.

My childhood was the best. Millionaire parents just threw money at me, and I was buying and renting videogames and movies at a rate that none of my friends could keep up with.

It allowed me to have acute kinotaste in many forms of media.

They rent porn

The porn section maybe?

>millionaire parents
>renting games

They are the last holdout. I always look over and give the store a knowing nod when i drive by.

Yeah okay, Chris Stuckmann.

I honestly think Netflix is some sort of mass delusion that infected America, and then the coup de gras was internet piracy.

If it wasn't for both of those existing I think Blockbuster might just be merely a struggling company.

Hastings went bankrupt recently. If noone buys them off an auction they're gonna close down.

Yeah I had money, but unless EGM and GamePro were giving out rave reviews, I wasn't gonna waste it.

I heard mine was bought out but they're still open. They discontinued a bunch of programs.

>being this poor
The family video near us when I was a kid rented playstation games for 50 cents a night
I would literally just recycle the cans and bottles we had at the house for game and movie rentals and ride over to the store on my bike whenever I felt like it

No clue, the one I went to like 20 years ago is still open and rentals are still only a buck, maybe 2 for new releases

If that happens Im going to the one up the street and buying a ton of books and dvds

came here to post this

in flyover America, they live on

>free kids movies
>lenient late fees, often waved
>cheap rental prices
>porn

My dad worked at a university so I got to hang out in the game lab and test new games before they even came out as well as having access to 50,000 films, television shows and other visual media from the library

i would let abella danger do horrible things to me

I've already spent 70 bucks there today. Sad that it's closing.

Netflix had more selections than your local blockbuster

No late fees with Netflix

Netflix basically started streaming

Blockbuster was behind on every step

No wonder why AJ worked at Blockbuster. They have no standards.

Same thing that went wrong with horse for transportation, dial up internet, taxis, buying music etc

you and me both, brother. you and me both.

who /devilish/ here

Remember me?

Army of Darkness and Aliens
Bag of popcorn and peanut butter M&M's.

i work part time at one. supposedly FYE has made a bid. but who knows, they may buy it just to liquidate. certainly close down a percentage of the stores.

...

we have netflix in the midwest too though. everyone i know has it.

They have a different business model. They purchase the land on which they build and then rent the other retail spaces out to other businesses which drive foot traffic like fast food and restaurants. I wouldn't know the figures but I imagine a large percentage of their revenue comes from commercial property leasing. Video stores can certainly still be profitable today, they just need slim overheads and to be in an area with a high demographic of poor people and terrible internet access.

Piracy dinndu nuffin. Cant prove anythang.

blockbuster was offered the sale of Netflix when it was burgeoning. They refused. Perhaps because of lack of foresight or they couldn't generate enough liquid cash after being stuck with Viacom's debt. Regardless, it was a massive blunder.

Remember these?

>crispy M&Ms
Confirmed for patrician taste.

That's not funny. My bother died that way.

I disagree. That makes it funnier.

>tfw you're too oldfag and no one gets the reference without googling.

Who rents a movie, I'm getting a game nigga

Can I give one one of the snacks or one of the movies if I'm having a friend staying the night?

please mommy?

>go to store to rent a playstation game
>get home only to realize your friend borrowed your memory card and you can't save the game

Some of my best moments were during nights like that.

i'm the user who works at hastings. it's weird, our store is pretty profitable and it's mainly from the rentals. it's not even an issue of internet, most people seem like normies who don't know an option besides redbox or renting on itunes.

but most of our base is definitely lower income. i imagine they have maxed out credit and so they can't use netflix or redbox or anything like that. they come in with a herd of children and rent a few kids movies and buy some popcorn.

the best customers though are the old men who come in literally every day and rent a new release DTV action movie. usually seem like lonely old men who live alone. if you ask them about their rentals they don't even seem to enjoy them. we had to ban one of these regulars from the store when he started cursing out one of my employees. supposedly he cried when we told him he couldn't come back.

I was never really into them desu

aww c'mon he's just a lonely old man. If he apologizes then can't you let him back in?

>theres people out there that buy action movies to watch so they can drown out their crying

I dont really miss it but i do have fond memories of going there renting games and movies along with buying junk food.

well to be fair, it's really to protect the employee. the dude is/was an asshole anyway, always starting shit and being rude. i was always super nice to him and so he was nice to me. smother him with kindness.

but the employee, i don't remember what she said but he went off calling her a bitch and saying "shave your mustache" and all kinds of other shit. so from a management standpoint, you have to protect her and give her a safe workplace environment.

Did she shave her mustache though?

*puts your mouth on my dick*

*unzips dick*

*teleports behind you*

*unzips katana*

they didnt go digital

They did, just way too late.

>TWO snack items

Fatass detected, just eat what we have at home.

>tfw these got banned at my high school because kids were heely-ing to class and down the halls all day
Good times.

>grow up in the 2000s
>this one massive relic of an 80s video store was still in business
>they finally close in like 2009

Who /videoezy/ here

In Calgary? Casablanca's?

Sorry, I only /hollywoodvideo/

Normalization of the internet ruined everything

fuck, casablanca's was awesome. i remember when i was little and i had to walk down the horror section to get to another part of the store i'd close my eyes because the dvd covers were spooky

then i moved and all the blockbusters closed down. when i went back to that part of the city, i was sad to see it close too

costs less than 2 dollars to rent a movie.

I also get cheap ps3 games here. One thing I want to add is that the snacks are atrocious. Small and pathetic, don't even stock gummy sweets and m&m's.

I had a gf that wore those everywhere despite being a sophomore in high school.

she was the best.

no shit, and they blockbuster was hella expensive too

And they keep opening new stores....I think it could be a money laundering operation

I heard they did try to ride on it, but it was too soon to change the gear. Meanwhile they didn't see the wave of the streaming got bigger.

It's a front for drug running and slavery rings.

Funny you should mention because my dad worked at McDonalds so I got to hang out in the burger lab and test new sauces before they even came out as well as having access to 50,000 fries, shakes and other menu items from the kitchen

Like cuck you in front of her basketball american co-star?

Are you a nigger or white-trash?

got me

My Blockbuster (considering I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and it was tiny) had an AMAZINGLY well-stocked foreign/arthouse section.

So with that in mind, films:

>La Balance
>Kwaidan

Snacks:

>Peanut M&Ms
>More Peanut M&Ms

They bank on nostalgia-addled hipsters and faggot Sup Forums buttheads.

>childhood mom n' pop video and game rental store closed down right when I graduated highschool

I rented so many games from there over the years, from n64 to xbox 360. all sorts of movies and etc and they always had tons of snacks and shit available

it was like the last nail in my childhood's coffin

i just want to put a quarter in the gumball machine again and get the white gumbball that gave you a free rental