A beer is being released to commemorate the last Blockbuster video store, brewed by 10 Barrel Brewing Co; http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2...t-body-smooth-finish-and-hints-nostalgia.html
F Blockbuster & their BS $3 rewind fee. I always rewound mine yet they always tried to screw me with it. Glad they’re gone.
Back when I was in college in 2012/13 I had a lot of classmates that had higher up positions at Blockbuster and thought they would be set for life. Funny how these things happen.
A black ale? I'd gladly give it a try. And I must say it's good to know that if I'm ever back in Bend, I can go rent a movie just for the sake of nostalgia.
Damn, I'd totally go for this if it were available here. I once worked at a Blockbuster in Marshfield, MA during my senior year of high school going into college ('05-'06). Maybe it's just the nostalgic memories of growing up but it was (is?) the best job I ever had. Good pay ($13 an hour for high school was killer), 4 free movie or 2 free game rentals a week and you get to bullshit about movies all day. Our store was conveniently located next to a Papa Gino's and a lot of people who worked there used to abuse substances that were then-illegal in the parking lot out back. We'd exchange our free rentals for free pizza and perhaps those aforementioned substances that are currently legal in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Anyway, it was quite the symbiotic relationship. I also learned a lot about customer service; how not to be an asshole employee and, more importantly, how not to be an asshole customer. It was a great experience and I'm bummed it won't happen again. At least there is still Casa Video in Tucson, AZ. Greatest video store EVER-- 1,000s of movies, a great foreign selection you can't even find online and most importantly, a craft beer bar that also does growler fills. I say again, best video store ever. Hahaha, I recall those days when I was just a customer. Luckily when I worked there pretty much everything was DVDs so no rewind fee was necessary. Not gonna lie, the only thing worse than getting the $3 rewind fee was having to tell the customer about the $3 rewind fee or any kind of late fee. I used to absolutely dread when I had to tell the customer we're taking on useless, greedy fees. Being strong-armed by management to promote Blockbuster Online, notify late fees, etc. That part of the job always sucked. Also stressed out parents with several dozen screaming kids. That sucked too. They lost a lot of business to bullshit like that, (the late fees, etc). By the time Netflix hit the market and then started getting into streaming the writing was on the wall and we all knew it was over. "Blockbuster Online" was the dying breath of the company and we all knew it. Wow, that's crazy. I'm really surprised they were that confident of the video rental industry. All of us measily underlings knew we were screwed back in 2006 or so when Netflix was gaining steam and started streaming their movies. Once that Blockbuster Online bullshit came out our manager basically told us "we're all completely fucked". I think the store closed like a year or two later. Blockbuster is notorious from being tone-deaf, so I guess it shouldn't surprise me that they thought they were "set for life" in 2013
2012/13... is that a typo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_LLC#2011–2015:_Michael_Kelly_era
I started college on 05 but wasn't until the end in 2012 that I realized why a bunch of my older classmates who stuck out like sore thumbs were blockbuster employees.
We didn’t have Blockbuster in Sweden, but I miss really good video stores. I still rent movies, but a lot of movies now are only released on DVD and not Blu-Ray. DVD for Christ’s sake! In 2018! A DVD looks like poo on a 4K screen. First world problems, eh?
Wow, I already thought Casa Video was the greatest video store ever and they didn't even have a craft beer bar when I lived there! Between that, the movies, and the free popcorn I'd probably spend most of my free time there if I hadn't moved. In fairness to Blockbuster, the branch near me when I lived in Tucson had a whole section devoted to widescreen versions of movies which was pretty ahead of its time. So I did sometimes cheat on Casa.
Seriously. A video store I went to back in the 90's actually requested that you NOT rewind the tapes, since (according to them) the average VCR heads put more wear on the tape than their rewinders did when the tape had cooled down. Essentially Blockbuster was charging you a fee for not ruining their tapes.
I remember seeing a guy get charged around 100 bucks for a late fee at my local movie store. They weren't gonna let him just buy the movie either. I think he just walked out and said good luck collecting that.
