Blockbuster Video Closing 300 Stores
No word on specific locations impacted. There is one located in the Kingstowne area.
Blockbuster will be closing 300 of its 800 locations in the coming weeks, according to a report in The Denver Post. Specific sites have not been announced.
Parent company Dish Network told the paper that 3,000 employees will lose their jobs in the process.
The stores targeted reportedly include underperforming sites, as well as locations where leases are set to expire.
An employee at Blockbuster in Kingstowne said they have not received notice that they will be closing at this time.
For decades, families would make weekly runs to the video store for entertainment. Now, many of the services that Blockbuster stores offer are provided through service station kiosks, mail delivery and online streaming.
Last year, Blockbuster shuttered roughly 500 locations across the country. Read more of The Denver Post report.
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lainy
4:10 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I was in the Kingstowne blockbuster on Friday the 25th. An employee told me that they were notified a few days prior that their store would be closing. According to her, the last day they would be renting movies is tomorrow Feb 2nd. The next day another employee confirmed this to me. I'm guessing the store on Little River is also closing because they said the closest store would now be the one in Woodbridge. No way am I driving over 10 miles to rent a movie from them now.