Blockbuster

What did yours turn into?

There was an Aldi next to mine, so they basically just swallowed it up once it shut down and made an extension out of it.

Mattress store.

Nothing, it's still an empty building. Places have built up around it but it's never been used again, I think it's cursed

OP here. Mine turned into a phone repair store.

CVS.

Other turned into a hair salon and something else.

Other one got built into a gym.

RIP Blockbuster

Same

one got turned into a beauty salon
another one got turned into an "unleashed" which is a pet grooming chain
literally across the street from that one was a hollywood video that got turned into a matress story

Bevmo

Same here

One is a Chase Bank and the other is a Buffalo Wild Wings.

a car dealership

A smoothie king....fucking kill me, I miss the old days op.

First a gym which failed, then the auto shop next door took over the space

Gas station
Empty building were hobos hang out

Chinese restaurant.

Wow same here, the fuck is up with sleepys taking over the world

I miss being able to rent consoles!

chastity cage emporium, how times have changed

didn't have a blockbuster in my town but one town over did. and i shit you not, it became a fucking family video. we also got one of those in our town since then too.

nah but for real, when will stores in general start phasing out? for anything, i mean.

I can't seem too find much on the internet with the Blockbuster man who would literally bust blocks in their commercials.

I had a Hollywood Video

Split between a Bojangles and Cheeseburger Bobby's, with an interim frozen yogurt joint.

What the hell is going on here? What's with all the mattress stores moving into retail space occupied by Blockbuster?

Mine was a Mattress Firm btw.

an Urgent Care

I moved away before it closed down. There are none where I live now. However all the indie video stores I used to live near were bought out by Movie Gallery right before their company went bankrupt and were completely abandoned.

yup

we're all from the west side of Madison, WI

Last thread I said it was a Gold Standard Mortgage, but I went back to check and apparently they put up a wall in between the onceblockbuster. One half is a Gold Standard Mortgage, the other half is a London Real Estate.

A post office

>tfw the comfy video store that would let me rent R movies and M games is a vape shop now

A Jimmie Johns and a Dentist's office.

It was a shit thrift store before though.

5 Guys burger and fries

Alpha Graphics: Commercial Printer

turned into a movie-gallery
then turned into a sushi hibachi grill

whats a movie gallery?

Chinese people turned it into a chothes store.

A Chase bank that seems to never be open.

An urgent care

>tfw twisted lowered back and had to go their. Suddenly realize the waiting area is where the video game section is.


HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND

literally a yacht club
not even posh area

Mine turned into a local video game store.

One of those pet salons, cuts your dog's hair etc.

Some shitty restaurant

Pay-less shoe store.

Wild And Wooly was the last bastion of hope concerning brick and mortar video rentals where I live. It was a sad fucking day when it closed not long after the last Blockbuster.

I found out that there's still a place called Family Video about 10 minutes away though. Pretty excited about it.

It turned into a Nandos

Auto parts store (sigh)

An African church. Another has become a dodgy payday loan place.

South London is wonderful.

mattress store kek

I'm fairly convinced that all mattress stores are fronts for some sort of illicit operation. I work national sales for a newspaper/TV station, and those mattress companies burn money on advertising like no one else. Seriously, how often do people buy mattresses?

planet closet, its like a thrift store

Wells Fargo bank

It was a fucking mess here in Ireland.

Xtra-Vision were big boys, Chartbusters got into some shit with Warner's, never got their films, was a death sentence. Xtra-Vision died a slow, long death. We had two, one in the village, one on another road. Latter one moved a small ways out from a lot to the road front, it was the first to go. Became a tanning salon. The second, of the most successful and one I visited since I was a child, closed up and moved to where Chartbusters used to be, in an ironic twist of fate. Merged with the failing HMV media chain store, they lasted a few months, and were gone. Now it sits empty, with a big poster for Jurassic World still in the window.

...

I think it became a shoe store or some shit. I don't go back home enough to notice.

Still have one im going to pick up a laser disc on my way home from the coal mine

when blockbuster first started going to shit, they let the landlord split the store in half and rent out the other part for an expansion for the gym next to it.

worked pretty well tbqh. they stayed open for a while.

Porn set

Fuzzy's Taco

Bojangles.

Cot mattress for babies, single bed for child, double bed for teen, cheaper queen / king when you first move out, better queen / king when you buy a house and are earning more money, replace that every ten to fifteen years... It does add up.

Not to mention the mark ups are huge, especially on the peripheral furniture they're upselling you for huge profits.

Doc in a box.

Pork store

One into an autozone, the other into a pet supplies store.

Apparently there's some college in Florida that has a blockbuster at the school.... pretty cool

Holy shit, same here. Fucking Mattress Firm.

Dollar Store

Penis house

Where I live everything is closing to become a mattress store (usually mattress firm), one intersection by me has 3 different mattress firms.

Tower Records

Cockbuster Videos

Surprisingly still has a lot of costumers

The Hollywood video I used to go to is now a performance bike shop, so that's atleast a winner right there.

Blockbuster got split into pieces and is now a Sprint store, Chipotle, video gambling place, and mattress firm.

Liquor store. Was for the best.

It was one of those slow hot afternoons you get in July; the ones where it feels like the humidity is just soaking your energy away. My son was at his Aunt's house and I was looking for something to do, so I decided to go down to Blockbuster off Mann and 465 (For those local boys who are reading). This isn't the nicest side of town, its a little older, kind of run down, but they still had a good selection. I was dressed casually, a pair of cotton shorts, tank top, cotton camp shirt and slip on tennis shoes. I wasn't thinking anything fancy when I got up and left, I was thinking about keeping myself cool.

I walked in and as I opened the door I noticed a few things. One, the place was dead for a Sunday afternoon. Two, I knew one of the guys working there; we had had a "thing" a few months before. He was wearing this bright orange shirt, while everyone else was in Blockbuster blue. It made it pretty hard to miss him, and he was grinning from ear to ear when he saw me walk in.

"Hey Angel," I heard him say casually as I sauntered in. I grinned to myself. Man, I'd forgotten how good-looking he was!

Whole Foods. There was another vacant store next to it so there was enough space to build one.

"Hey Rob, how are you?" I answered. He was a handsome guy, short kind of shaggy light brown hair and the brightest sea blue eyes I've ever seen. I loved those eyes. I wandered over his way and we started to exchange small talk and idle ‘How-have-so-and-sos-been' while he watched the store. I realized that not only did he work there; he was a manager or an assistant or something, because the keys that were jingling around on the lanyard he was swinging were attached to an alarm sensor and had door keys with them. I didn't pay much attention to that information until later.

We stood by the Drama section – Ah, Drama, How fitting! – and mindlessly chatted a bit of time away. For as slow as it was, there were enough employees around that we weren't ever really bothered. Our conversation got softer and naughtier as time progressed. We hadn't seen each other in a few weeks and so the usual questions came up. Were you still seeing so and so? Are you still with that guy? How are things (meaning Have you gotten laid recently?) going, etc. He had me breathing a little heavier as we talked about what we had done in the past to each other that had turned us both on.

Poundland

"I loved it when you sucked my dick," he whispered so soft I had to lean in for me to hear him. We weren't inches apart and he was looking down my blouse as he said it, his mouth turned away from the camera. I felt my nipples get hard and my pussy start to tingle. I brushed against him as I leaned over to pretend interest in something behind him. He could look straight down my tank and see my bra and impressive cleavage.

"That's okay," I whispered back. "I loved sucking on it. You have a very nice, thick dick and I liked feeling you cum on me". At this point I knew we were both goners. My pussy was wet, my nipples looked like I had been hit with a huge blast of arctic air, and he was getting hard in his khaki shorts. I leaned back and tried to calm down by taking some deep breaths of air. I think I might have even been fanning myself with a brochure, trying to get the air that had seemed fine a few moments ago across my flaming cheeks.

...

He stared at me for a few more moments before casually saying, "Hey, don't you have to go to the bathroom?" while swinging those keys on the lanyard. I was confused. I didn't have to pee. What was he talking about? I shook my head in response and he looked at me before eyeing the counter. I could see him mentally going over something before looking me in the eyes solidly and saying slowly, "Oh-didn't-you-have-to-go-to-the-bath-room?" with a shoulder shrug and a big eye movement towards the storage room/bathroom door. Suddenly it dawned on me and I felt stupid.

"Ohhh, ya, now that you say, I DO have to use the restroom," I announced loud enough so that if someone was paying attention they would think it was innocent enough. "Would you happen to have a key?" I asked. He smiled and nodded sure and walked me over to the door.

"Right in here, ma'am," he said and opened the door with a slight flourish. As I walked in he dropped his voice to add, "I'll be right back, don't lock it!" and shut the door quietly. I was in a storage room that doubled as a bathroom with a toilet and sink. It was cramped, but big enough I could hold my arms out at my sides and not touch anything. I just stood there for a second and suddenly felt my heart thumping in my chest like it was going to beat right up my throat. I've been wild and crazy before in things but at this point in my life, I was 25 years old and a mother of a young child – I shouldn't be trying to make out with hot guys in a BATHROOM of a public workplace! Wasn't there a law against that? And when ‘law against that' crossed my mind, I swear my pussy got wetter. The idea that I might be caught, might be being watched, might be being so naughty as to break the law sexually turned me on so much I could feel my panties getting wetter. I started panting a little harder, thinking about him walking through that unlocked door.

Suddenly, the door opened quickly and Rob walked through, and then shut it and I heard the lock click. He looked at me and I looked at him. Neither of us said anything, we just started at each other for a few seconds. Next thing I knew he had me in his arms, his face buried in my breasts, tugging my tank top down.

Wasn't a Blockbuster, we don't have those in my country. But the video store now houses a funeral home....

Before that there was a different funeral home, and before that another funeral home displayed coffins there.

Ours turned into an amusement park

Mattress places are taking over America, there's an episode of Freakonomics about it.

Same here, they must have cut a deal to buy a bunch of dead stores.

A help center for immigrants.

Toilet store

Never had one. The local store is a local auto parts store now.

The name brand one (can't remember the name) is now an urgent care center/ verizon store.

Is that Eugene?

Liquor store.

The Dairy Queen was always there, the other 80% of this building used to be Blockbuster. Today it looks like there's just some kind of employment center operating there and not much else.

Tony?

Blockbuster's had the floor space that's needed for a mattress store.

The other Blockbuster in the city I used to go to is now a mattress store. I remember making my final purchase of a DVD here.

i work at family video when i'm home for the summer from college. honestly a pretty nice place, i rent from it as much as i can because it's pretty cheap (new rentals $3 most others are $1 for 5 nights).

They probably stuff the mattresses with cocaine and move them all over the country

I bet they went hard at investing in Netflix early on to help kill Blockbuster and claim all that floorspace for a bargain price

Mine turned into another video rental store.

Auto Zone

DJ supply store

Mine is still abandoned with the computer still inside.