The first Blockbuster store in the UK opened in 1989. In the past few years it has faced increasing competition from online-only rental firms who post DVDs to subscribers and, more recently, from streaming services which allow users to download films and TV series.
I'm amazed Blockbuster has lasted this long. Another case of overpricing themselves out of the market just like HMV . Feel sorry for the staff.
huge US company probably paying close to zero tax and possibly a huge tax write off for the US conglomerate which owns it .. when the tipping point comes .. B'Busters will go down with all hands lost unfortunately .. young people mostly with nowhere else to go for a decent wage job .. retailing is the new manufacturing in GB .. once that goes down we are in SERIOUS trouble .. if we are not already
the one in catford never seems to have anyone in there.
still go to blockbusters myself but for the second hand dvds not to rent anything. Havent used my account for five years. not since losing a dvd i rented off them. I'm not paying a f'cking tenner for 'adulthood'. crap film.
Wonder what the Welling Blockbuster will turn into? A beauty salon? An Afro-Carribean barber shop? (I swear that Welling High Street is looking more and more like Tottenham High Road every week!) Sainsburys Express? I would have had money on it being a Tescos Express had the one at the station not opened recently!
Wonder what the Welling Blockbuster will turn into? A beauty salon? An Afro-Carribean barber shop? (I swear that Welling High Street is looking more and more like Tottenham High Road every week!) Sainsburys Express? I would have had money on it being a Tescos Express had the one at the station not opened recently!
A fast food outlet of some kind must be heavy odds on favourite. In a few years time Welling will surely have an obesity epidemic as there's a fast food place seemingly every few yards from Harry's chip shop down by morrisons to kebab ye up by the shell garage.
I used to do the maintenance for around 70 of their stores until three years ago when they told us they simply could not afford to use us anymore. I'm astounded they lasted this long to be honest . Out of the 70 stores I maintained there are no more than 15 still open and they are in a terrible state of repair .
We carried on doing their emergency electrical call outs and it's heartbreaking for me to see how bad they've become when I worked so hard to get them in such a good conditon.
If I had a gift card I couldnt use in HMV or say Blockbuster owed me money and I knew I could no longer get it, I swear I would just walk in there and take what I could and see what happens. Its a total pisstake. What happens to all the people that take out the insurances from Comet for their goods and it breaks within 3 years??
Makes My blood boil this, and yes I do feel sorry for the staff as well.
Who remembers Broadway Video when it was down near where Superbowl is now. Spent half my childhood in there. Used to wander in as an 8 year old with a mate and rent out Nightmare on Elm Street without a problem! Is it even still there?
If I had a gift card I couldnt use in HMV or say Blockbuster owed me money and I knew I could no longer get it, I swear I would just walk in there and take what I could and see what happens.
That's how business works. The big companies take delivery of goods from smaller firms and then put off paying them for as long as possible. They're all at it. Not just in retail, in construction, catering and just about everything.
I was 4 years into a 5 year warranty on a TV from Allders when the TV broke. As the warranty was issued by the company it was worthless when I tried to claim. I would think it would have been different if the policy had been with by a third party insurer, eg Legal and General, as most of them are now.
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still go to blockbusters myself but for the second hand dvds not to rent anything.
Havent used my account for five years. not since losing a dvd i rented off them. I'm not paying a f'cking tenner for 'adulthood'. crap film.
A fast food outlet of some kind must be heavy odds on favourite. In a few years time Welling will surely have an obesity epidemic as there's a fast food place seemingly every few yards from Harry's chip shop down by morrisons to kebab ye up by the shell garage.
We carried on doing their emergency electrical call outs and it's heartbreaking for me to see how bad they've become when I worked so hard to get them in such a good conditon.
Its a total pisstake.
What happens to all the people that take out the insurances from Comet for their goods and it breaks within 3 years??
Makes My blood boil this, and yes I do feel sorry for the staff as well.
Who remembers Broadway Video when it was down near where Superbowl is now. Spent half my childhood in there. Used to wander in as an 8 year old with a mate and rent out Nightmare on Elm Street without a problem! Is it even still there?
Why not take it on as a test case, CPL ....?
;o)
Not good for those who worked there though.
I would think it would have been different if the policy had been with by a third party insurer, eg Legal and General, as most of them are now.