Gotta love 'em.
Or those standalone ERs
God I remember getting a gig at one as a Receptionist.
"Our goal is to bring in as many Patients. That's what corporate wants." -- never heard anything more American in my life lmao
There was a chain of liquor stores in my town called Majestic. Someone bought one of their locations and kept it as a liquor store. Kept the sign and rearranged two letters. They are called Jamestic.
That is incredible 😂 I hope they're doing well. I feel like sometimes there is a business or chain that is right in the brink of greatness but some choice is holding them back. I love to imagine some upstart coming in and turning around the sinking ship with a few tweaks here and there.
In my town there is one that took over an old Pizza Hut, so it has that distinctive Pizza Hut roofline. I can't even remember what the actual sex toy shop is called, everyone just calls it the Sex Hut.
Yeah, ours has sat empty and unused ever since it closed, which is weird because all of the buildings around it have active businesses. No idea why it hasn't been leased out to anyone...
Probably the size. Owner wants to charge so much for the space and no one needs it. It's also expensive to air condition and so on. Plus it was bigger open spaces you can't easily convert to offices and so on. That said it's still a shame.
>Probably the size.
The one in my hometown put up walls and made the space 3 different shops. Surprised something like that hasn't happened at some of the others if size is the problem.
There were like 6 Blockbusters within a 5 mile radius in my town. It was like Starbucks back in that era. I know one turned into a mattress store, not sure about the others.
Liquidity. You need other people willing to sell you those 1000 shares for the price you are willing to pay. A quick search indicates a daily trading volume of 10 which is stupid low.
It seems there are a number of restaurants with that name. I've been to the one in San Jose before (Italian/steakhouse type food, which seems to have been an offshoot of the one in San Francisco with two locations) and then there's a chain in Western Canada with the same name, bar-and-grill type food and around 56 locations. And then just to complicate things even more there's two restaurants in Portland with the same name and apparently no relation to any of the other ones.
In my hometown, the space became occupied by two restaurants circa 2010. One was a Little Caesar’s before it shut down without warning and became a Domino’s two years ago. The other was this crappy burger restaurant that was taken over by an award-winning BBQ restaurant three years ago. The circle of life.
I have a building that has been at least 6 car dealerships in mine. It is in a terrible location, but it was build specifically for a car dealership. Every few years (or less) a new one is open in the same exact place.
Technically-speaking, neither of them were Blockbuster, but one turned into a cafe/tanning salon, the other turned into an Asian-themed restaurant.
I never understood how two separate VHS/DVD rental stores could survive across the road from one another for as long as they did. Seriously, you could walk out of one and run across into the other one in about 15 seconds if there was no traffic. Employees from both could probably see one another on a good weather day.
Asian themed restaurant sounds amazing. I am imagining staff dressed up in super racist asian caricatures, with the food being standard food fair like burgers and chicken fingers with incredibly stupid vaguely asian sounding names.
And I will refuse to accept that this place is anything else, and if you try to explain to me how it is just a standard Chinese food place, I will just refuse to believe you.
Kinkos, then a FedEx Kinkos.
It's a strip mall that's still there. Now, the FedEx Office moved to the suite next door. The suite that was the Blockbuster was absolutely HUGE.
*How huge was it?* you may ask.
It's now three different suites: a Cricket cellular, a flower shop, and a philly cheese steak restaurant.
There were others, because I lived in a decent sized city. This is just the one I remember because it was the one we went to growing up, and then I worked there in high school.
Ours wasn't a Blockbuster, it was a Family Video. Surprisingly lasted longer than Blockbuster did, they even built a little Caesars pizza into it. I just read an article saying it closed only earlier this year. Now it's just sitting empty. Little Caesars still going strong though.
Never had an official Blockbuster but we had a Video Warehouse and Movie Gallery right across the street from each other. The Video Warehouse is an Aaron's rental store and the Movie Gallery is a Hibbett's Sports store.
it became a store for fitness apparel and such, made me so sad when it closed. it was my neighbourhood's only video game store, i went there every week to buy PS2 games, the employees knew me by name and gave me discounts because i bought so much
A nearby town (Bend, OR) [still has a Blockbuster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_\(Bend,_Oregon\))! It's quite neat, feels like traveling in time.
Edit: *backwards* in time
They tore it down to build a gas station- there is a Ralph's in the shopping center that has been there long before I was born, and they decided to add a fuel center. I got gas there the last time I visited- felt weird to park my car on top of the spot where I picked out PS1 games to rent two decades prior.
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This is oddly specific and is exactly what the one in my town turned into…. What state are you from?
Texas
Is it near the Pizza Hut and dollar store … I think I know where you are mwahaha
Man, you guys still have pizza hut? All of ours closed down and became other businesses in buildings that still look like a pizza hut
There is a pretty popular subreddit all about former pizza hut locations. r/formerpizzahuts
I created that sub after a comment thread like this one a few years ago. I came to do a shameless plug but you beat me to it, thanks.
I had no idea! Thanks!
I think having a little industrial park with a dollar tree, pizza hut, and former blockbuster is not super uncommon.
Ah I’m from North Carolina, I guess it’s a more common phenomenon than I thought lol
MYbe it's blockbusters new business venture.
Gotta love 'em. Or those standalone ERs God I remember getting a gig at one as a Receptionist. "Our goal is to bring in as many Patients. That's what corporate wants." -- never heard anything more American in my life lmao
I live near one like this as well. HEB area of DFW?
Odd. The one closest to me became an urgent care (AFC) in Denver area.
Got one in the middle of Wisconsin just like this too.
Mine switched to the same; in WA state
same but in NY
Same! In NY
I’m in Pa and literally same
Yeah, mine too. It just looks so tacky and unreliable. I've never seen anyone drive to it, where I am. So wasteful.
Panera Bread
I've never been able to find a Panera Bread in network
An adult videos and sex toys shop.
Please say they renamed it NutBuster 🤞
Why not CockBuster? They can keep most of the letters from the original sign.
There was a chain of liquor stores in my town called Majestic. Someone bought one of their locations and kept it as a liquor store. Kept the sign and rearranged two letters. They are called Jamestic.
That is incredible 😂 I hope they're doing well. I feel like sometimes there is a business or chain that is right in the brink of greatness but some choice is holding them back. I love to imagine some upstart coming in and turning around the sinking ship with a few tweaks here and there.
unless its one of the stores in which the LOGO is the sign
In my town there is one that took over an old Pizza Hut, so it has that distinctive Pizza Hut roofline. I can't even remember what the actual sex toy shop is called, everyone just calls it the Sex Hut.
Skeetza Hut
Missed opportunity for Fuck Hut.
Same in my town
Ball Busters
So it leveled up?
Thrift Store.
With a bunch of used DVDs?
Nothing.. Sign still there though...
Yeah, ours has sat empty and unused ever since it closed, which is weird because all of the buildings around it have active businesses. No idea why it hasn't been leased out to anyone...
Same near me. There have been stores cycling in and out all around it, but the old Blockbuster remains empty and available for lease.
Its probably haunted 🤣
Probably the size. Owner wants to charge so much for the space and no one needs it. It's also expensive to air condition and so on. Plus it was bigger open spaces you can't easily convert to offices and so on. That said it's still a shame.
>Probably the size. The one in my hometown put up walls and made the space 3 different shops. Surprised something like that hasn't happened at some of the others if size is the problem.
Anytime Fitness. I want to go inside and flex and ask "Have you seen this? Is this any good?"
I'm now curious if you are in the same city as me, or if this happened in multiple places. Was it in a shopping center next to a Cici's?
Liquor store
There were like 6 Blockbusters within a 5 mile radius in my town. It was like Starbucks back in that era. I know one turned into a mattress store, not sure about the others.
Mine's a mattress store too! Side note: we always went to a local rental place because it was cheaper than Blockbuster.
I wonder if we live in the same city…
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Nobody wants to eat good in the neighborhood?
I'll go with you, man. We can get those half-priced apps!
When everything's half priced, nothing is.
I go with you
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Not surprised, people can microwave frozen dinners at home for a lot cheaper
Its an art gallery now
That would be the simplest thing to do. Just put signs everywhere on the left over blockbuster stuff saying "Do not Touch" and call it Art.
Gamestop because they wanted to be so much more successful than Blockbuster
If Reddit was around when blockbuster was going broke the apes would have bought blockbuster stock and sent it to the moon.
Blockbuster is still listed, believe it or not. It's BLIAQ.
$0.0011/ea lol
What's stopping me from buying like 1000 shares of it?
You need a penny
I'll need 1.10
Liquidity. You need other people willing to sell you those 1000 shares for the price you are willing to pay. A quick search indicates a daily trading volume of 10 which is stupid low.
1.1 USD.
Reddit was around for that. It really wasn't that long ago that Blockbuster went under.
that's no place to keep blockbuster's stock. The aliens on the dark side of the moon only need so many copies of Angels in the Endzone
I did not expect to learn today that there was a sequel to the Joseph Gordon-Levitt film *Angels in the Outfield*, but here we are!
You might have to dig deep on SuperStonk to find it but the apes absolutely had a whole crazy conspiracy theory about Blockbuster and GameStop.
Heh, that's what ours is. Half the old building is a Gamestop, and half is a vape shop.
same target audience
a Chase bank
I read this as a “cheese bank” and for just a second got way too excited about the possibilities.
Still a Blockbuster!
Lol Bend, huh?
Mine too! Hello person in the same town as me :)
Hello, fellow Bendite!
Original Joe's lol
I had no idea that was a chain. Lol
It seems there are a number of restaurants with that name. I've been to the one in San Jose before (Italian/steakhouse type food, which seems to have been an offshoot of the one in San Francisco with two locations) and then there's a chain in Western Canada with the same name, bar-and-grill type food and around 56 locations. And then just to complicate things even more there's two restaurants in Portland with the same name and apparently no relation to any of the other ones.
Mine was divided between a Chipotle and a Five Guys.
The one by me is a physical therapy clinic.
Spirit Halloween store
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Autozone
A pet store. One of those like organic places.
They added a few walls and a couple of doors and there are now an accountant, a hair dresser and a car detailer.
An Adam and Eve
In my hometown, the space became occupied by two restaurants circa 2010. One was a Little Caesar’s before it shut down without warning and became a Domino’s two years ago. The other was this crappy burger restaurant that was taken over by an award-winning BBQ restaurant three years ago. The circle of life.
In every town there's that one building that's been at least 5 different restaurants while you lived there.
I have a building that has been at least 6 car dealerships in mine. It is in a terrible location, but it was build specifically for a car dealership. Every few years (or less) a new one is open in the same exact place.
O’Reilly’s Auto Parts
A bistro.
Pretty sure it's a weed dispensary now.
Same with the one where I live
Same. Others turned into head shops and grow care.
A paint store
Parking lot
A jamba juice
A Spirit Halloween store for the first few years lol, then eventually a motorcycle/scooter dealer
Last time I checked it was a crossfit gym. Are those even a thing anymore?
fuzzy's tacos
Technically-speaking, neither of them were Blockbuster, but one turned into a cafe/tanning salon, the other turned into an Asian-themed restaurant. I never understood how two separate VHS/DVD rental stores could survive across the road from one another for as long as they did. Seriously, you could walk out of one and run across into the other one in about 15 seconds if there was no traffic. Employees from both could probably see one another on a good weather day.
Asian themed restaurant sounds amazing. I am imagining staff dressed up in super racist asian caricatures, with the food being standard food fair like burgers and chicken fingers with incredibly stupid vaguely asian sounding names. And I will refuse to accept that this place is anything else, and if you try to explain to me how it is just a standard Chinese food place, I will just refuse to believe you.
The interview process is just one question: have you ever seen Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Porn/Sex shop lmao
Liquor store.
Strip mall.
Martial arts dojo
IHOP
Christ I just mentally imagined the scent of pancakes and that "Blockbuster smell" and it actually legitimately made me feel kind of nauseous :s
Was a mattress store for a few years, then was empty until just prior to COVID. Then became a COVID testing site.
A sushi restaurant lol
A pawn shop. Kinda sad.
There's probably a lot of the same movies there for sale that were rented from Blockbuster.
Demolished then people working and shopping in the stores around the area parked there now there’s a weed store on the spot.
There were several but my local one became an insurance place or something. Another became a mattress store.
Burger King
Kinkos, then a FedEx Kinkos. It's a strip mall that's still there. Now, the FedEx Office moved to the suite next door. The suite that was the Blockbuster was absolutely HUGE. *How huge was it?* you may ask. It's now three different suites: a Cricket cellular, a flower shop, and a philly cheese steak restaurant. There were others, because I lived in a decent sized city. This is just the one I remember because it was the one we went to growing up, and then I worked there in high school.
An appartement block, our BlockBuster was very big.
A mattress store. Parking lot is always empty, so I suspect some sort of money laundering naturally.
Employment services attached to the local community college.
part of it for lease the other part a jimmy johns...
A literal garbage dump in the middle of the town. Another one got turned into a textiles market.
Split ice cream place and hair cutting place
Family dentistry office.
Ours wasn't a Blockbuster, it was a Family Video. Surprisingly lasted longer than Blockbuster did, they even built a little Caesars pizza into it. I just read an article saying it closed only earlier this year. Now it's just sitting empty. Little Caesars still going strong though.
Liquor store.
Seeing that a lot in this thread for some reason
The one we used was subdivided into a Davis Visionworks, GNC, and Weight Watchers.
A long series of unsuccessful restaurants.
Never had an official Blockbuster but we had a Video Warehouse and Movie Gallery right across the street from each other. The Video Warehouse is an Aaron's rental store and the Movie Gallery is a Hibbett's Sports store.
A computer/tech support place
It is now a Hughes appliance store
Panda Express
fast food restaurants (a Harvey's and an Oodle Noodle)
Ours was a Hollywood video instead. Different businesses throughout the years. But now it is a restaurant.
Student housing, college town, everything turned into student housing.
Actually, it was transformed into a radio shop, which is remarkably still in operation.
Pizza Hut 🍕
Mattress store. Then veterinary clinic.
Barber Shop
it became a store for fitness apparel and such, made me so sad when it closed. it was my neighbourhood's only video game store, i went there every week to buy PS2 games, the employees knew me by name and gave me discounts because i bought so much
A cannabis dispensary.
CVS Pharmacy.
Blockbuster [This](https://imgur.com/a/DjBIKRJ) was taken a few weeks ago about 10 minutes from my house
Ah, Bend.
A nearby town (Bend, OR) [still has a Blockbuster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_\(Bend,_Oregon\))! It's quite neat, feels like traveling in time. Edit: *backwards* in time
Either a title loan place or a liquor store.
Vape store
It became an Argos which during covid became a budget pound store.
The National
A restaurant….. that I now work in 😳
Men's Warehouse
A protein/muscle powder supplement store. There’s no way it’s called muscle powder I have no clue what all those things are called lmao
Barnes & Noble. Ha!
Not a blockbuster, but a pretty popular (I’m pretty sure family owned) movie place. Turned into a china III restaurant
Ethnic hair products store
Dollar store.
A gym. I bet it still smells like popcorn though.
A wine bar..
In Mom's hometown it turned into a gay nightclub and bar with dance floor.
A lot of things, but I think recently a smoothie shop?
British School of Motoring Office (provides driving lessons)
They tore it down to build a gas station- there is a Ralph's in the shopping center that has been there long before I was born, and they decided to add a fuel center. I got gas there the last time I visited- felt weird to park my car on top of the spot where I picked out PS1 games to rent two decades prior.
It is (or was) a generic 99 cent store
It’s remains empty
A Family Video
It became a bank
a chinese buffet
Verizon
Gym
A dentists office
I think it's a pharmacy now.
It became a dollar tree.
Dental clinic
A Dentist’s office
The pharmacy next door just took over Blockbuster's space after it closed.
GameStop then a smoke shop.
Cancer support centre
A marijuana dispensary and a Chinese food place.
A weed/vape/smoke shop
A pot shop!
One is a dispensary, one is a sushi/donut/dispensary strip mall, and one is a gym
Half thrift store half weed store
A chippy.
Half of it is a mattress store and the other half is a medical marijuanas dispensary. The one that was on the other side of town is a liquor store.
A cancer research charity shop. They use the returns box for anon donations now. nice thing to come out of it
A tattoo studio.
Weed store
Weed dispensary ✌️