I see Blockbuster has gone the same way as HMV

Its sad if people lose their jobs but the world moves on.

 

My point is regardless of the tax Amazon pay(and yes it needs sorting) HMV-like Blockbuster - have been walkin dead men for agesand their demise was always going to happen . They simply not moved wi the times.

 

All browsing and listening, nobody buying, do that at home off the internet where you get things cheaper. And don't have to carry it home.

 

Folk haven't got the 'couple of quid extra'.

 

What a DVD? Hardly surprising they've gone bust when you look at it like that.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of downloads but those CD's can be awkward to carry.

 

For sure. CD's are b'stards to carry.

 

CD's and fruit gums. B'stards.

 

Should have tried it with vinyl and you bought an album and trying to walk home when it was blowing a gale!

 

It was like carrying a shield when you were a kid.

 

It's been on the cards for Blockbuster for a while, think they went belly up a year or 2 ago in the States.

Going back 20 years since I last regularly rented videos/dvd's (well, videos back then) from a shop. As I used to work shifts I used to rent a couple a week, then when I got Sky I took the decision to get the movie channels thinking the cost would work out fairly similar. Took a few months before I was regularly getting planty I'd not already seen but that was it. Just recorded stuff I wanted to watch later.
A couple of years ago I signed up to Lovefilm as I got a 3 month free trial and kept it on for a year and it was decent but stopped that as we weren't watching them or they'd come on Sky soon after.
Thinking of signing up to Netflix as there are a few TV series we want to catch up on (most notably Breaking Bad which they stopped showing here) - but now that Lovefilm and Netflix due online streaming and people have fast connections there's no comparison with using somewhere like Blockbuster

 

It was only a matter of time. The shops were running into the ground, getting more drab, getting left behind, couldn't cope with new technology as so many have said. Using blockbuster is like using a walkman, someone comes along and gives you an iPod and you'll never ever use a Walkman again.

Just another empty shop on our high street, opposite where Comet used to be.

We'll all be living in pound shop/charity shop/mobile phne shop/bookies ghost towns soon.

 

We will lose all the good shops just like we have been losing all our proper pubs! Pretty soon folk wont even bothere leaving the house unless they really have to. They practically converse and do everything else online. Footy will also probably just move online too eventually.

Thankfully ive got a local at the top of the road that shouldnt ever shut and its a proper pub - not a chain! Think it would go into meltdown round here if it did. Every other pub has shut and turned into a curry house. As much as i like a curry i preferred the old pubs.

 

The thing with HMV was that it consistently failed to make use of its internet presence. It had the rights to so much music and the ability to sell so much music but they persisted with a business model that was increasingly becoming redundent. Of course that would not have saved all it's shops, but dunderhead management thought that "online downloading" was just a fad and that people would still want to visit record shops to buy music.

As for the grocery market - Asda and Tesco are already doing home delivery so if/when people decide they really dont want to go to the supermarket on mass, they will be there to deliver. That's an important difference imo between them and HMV.

Blockbuster - im surprised it kept going for so long to be honest.

 

Says Joey - who presumably can move on as he still has a job?

 

no i mean 'proper pubs'. One up my lane is. No tvs, no music, no food no faff. Just folk go out to see each other, converse and get involved with the pub, local sports and pub games such as pool, darts, quiz etc... Dying breed.