Everybody blames streaming for killing Blockbuster.
Honestly? That's only half the story.
At its peak around 2004, Blockbuster ran roughly 9,000 stores. Today, the entire empire is one building in Bend, Oregon.
And the chains that went down around it? One borrowed its way into the grave. One started life inside a McDonald's. One mailed its last DVD in 2023.
This video isn't about the store that survived. It's about everything that died around it, and the one thing almost all of them had in common.

⏱ CHAPTERS:
0:00 – One Store Left in Bend
1:37 – West Coast, Suncoast & Hastings
6:06 – Movie Gallery & the Debt Trap
9:13 – Hollywood Video & Family Video
11:49 – Redbox & the Red Envelope
14:35 – Babbage's, KB Toys & Best Products
19:21 – Jordan Marsh & the Lost Art of Browsing
22:22 – Hudson's, Natural Wonders & Rich's

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