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Before algorithms for binge-watching, there was a Blockbuster, the one-stop rental shop lined with VHS tapes and DVDs where customers walked (not logged) in for that night’s entertainment. The friendly sales clerks decked out in blue-and-yellow polos made picking a movie easier, unlike the laborious chore that it is now.
Then, almost all 9,094 locations of Blockbuster shuttered globally; the brand’s sole survivor is clinging onto nostalgia for physical media off a highway in Bend, Ore.
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