When you’re the last lone surviving store in any industry, you’ve earned the right to have fun and hype it up. That’s exactly what the only remaining store of the Blockbuster video rental chain is doing, and it’s during the Super Bowl. And it helps if you still have a VCR, of course.
“Everyone who calls is super excited, and they want to know more,” said Sandi Harding, the store’s general manager, in an interview with CNN Business. “I wanted to do two things with the ad. One was to show that small businesses can also do creative and fun things for Super Bowl, and it’s not just an opportunity for the big companies and their big ads,” she said. “We also want people to remember us, that we are here and our store is exactly the way a Blockbuster store was in the 1990s.
I miss going to Blockbuster Friday nights to see if they had the latest movies. Ah memories
So they’ll be bankrupt by Monday?
A shout out for Bend, Oregon!
Why do we have nostalgia for a company that was objectively terrible. The selection sucked, late fees were exorbitant, it exploited its workforce and it smelled weird.
I'm just curious who still rents physical copies of movies.
They should have their own network
Aren't they like 20 mil per spot?
Hey! They have Blu-Rays for rent in there! Do your research.
They ripped me off with their fees but I miss looking through their aisles for a movie to watch.
Boo.
ان الرب العظيم ،سيسحق امريكا ويمحقها ولن تتمكن هذه امريكا عمل اي شيء حينها سيقتل ملااييين الامربكيين وتحل الكارثه ولااعتقد ان اي شعب بالعالم سيتفاعل انسانيا مع الامريكيين والسبب لان الامريكيين قتله جبناء فسقه كفره فجره انجاس ومحتلون واعداء البشريه وارهابيين
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We need to bring blockbuster back. I would dump all the streaming apps in a second
They should bring back Blockbuster and turn it into a little personal, 'home movie' theater experience--so it's like a normal theater, just smaller, more comfortable and better quality.