Blockbuster Bankruptcy / Circuit City's Mistakes

Hearing that Blockbuster was declaring bankruptcy reminded me about my days with Circuit City during it's liquidation. This video is pretty much a long awaited rant on the company I once worked for.

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• blockbuster
• bankruptcy
• closing
• stores
• circuit
• city
• liquidation
• 2009
• 2010
• rant
• review
• blog

[PichuBoy]

Simply Put Netflix Killed Blockbuster Drove them right into the ground

[JoeMamaNewAccount]

@lookatmues FUCK 'EM!!!! It's your video. You could put you and your gf having sex at the beginning of all of your videos and it would still be ok because it is YOUR video. Fuck 'em all. Keep using the intro.

[PGMEagle]

I use to work for Circuit City and I can pretty much safley say that most of what you said is completly true. When I started for the company in the mid 80s it was pretty well runed and business was very good. Then in the mid to late 90s early 2000s thats when everything went downhill. Like you said they did make a seires of dumb businness moves that pretty much (coupled with the rescession that hit in 2007 that was the final nail on the coffin) run them into the ground.

[TheJayleo009]

haha this is so funny not muse but the fact that he's talking about blockbuster going down and theres a Advertisement right beside his videos about starting ur first 30 day trial for free lol (copying netflix) but ya just funny cuz u cant miss it.

[ladyjosephinelover]

Wow mues interesting video yeah those were some seriously STUPID Business decisions on CC's part. and i vaguely remember when i was younger the constant changes in the local CC store everytime we walked in

[outlawstarr417]

I hate renting movies from the internet...it requires you to play "the waiting game". when you can have a store to drive to NOT far from you, pick it up, and come back home the same day. NOW, Blockbusters (and other rental stores) are closing, and this shutdown of most rental stores is causing customers to become more dependent on internet movie renting...which is a hassle.

[ACEODST343]

i blame redbox and netflix, these services are getting people bankrupt and eliminating jobs, im not looking forward to the next decade in terms of finding a job.

[pixstick]

@AlienBeliever897 Agreed. Times are tough.

[AlienBeliever897]

@pixstick There's one in Wichita KS where I live that just shut down a couple months ago. Kinda sad to see all these stores going outa buisness.

[theZoftime]

Totally off-topic here but.... great shirt Marc :)

[pixstick]

@pixstick Continued:

Blockbuster can be so much more conveint in many ways. But, if anything I believe that Blockbuster's late fees played a part in their bankruptcy as well.

Anyone else remember HollyWood Videos? I haven't seen a store in ages.

[pixstick]

As everyone else pretty much already noticed, Blockbuster and CC hit rock bottom thanks to Netflix and Redbox and PPV may be one also. fpascale789 has a point on internet rentals being more of a hassel. I previously rented "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1", I waited for a month for some sort of status change, but unfourtunately, it kept switching from "Long wait" to "Very long wait" over and over again. Until I finally gave up and rented it from Blockbuster.