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or two t te fee
ck. The la stay open, I pro
bably h Every o to say made it
out a day it b a e take n e of the A d m i t defeat, f e e l
n a ll y d id br in g
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blue an stores w loser.
fi f th e ed DVD , the co a s ,
e away. I g-return ; in 2005 ers for d canar a nd still
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screens nths-old actio llow, with dizz xactly the sam
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it $ 2 0 f rom s a s n t ju st m a ll y c h a n flicks
pay ie. (It w matic
over auto hey kept the disc
s out and a fe yingly b e: all
her mov A paradigm shift in our movie viewing habits have caused ic attem w surly emplo
playing right w
out anot a la w s u it t ing l o u d ly on ov a l l s, t
n y h a d to settle o s t o f a movie if a $ 1 .2 5 restock d the impending downfall of the once-mighty video pt to be
a n a
yees be
h i n d erhead rail-
pa ent c ging r ha enterta ll-in-on the cou TV
eplacem hen char vie B l o c k b u s t e chain. Is this a lost cause, or can inme e suppl n
ier of a ter. In a pathet
the full r an a week, and t o and sod nt, the stores
th back a m a for sa throw s n ent -
for more one who brought Bloc k bu s t e r fight back? le near ome po ire nights
ny the che pcorn,
fee to a ckout li candy
lost.) ne.
declared y not to
a d t h e decenc
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h a n d , at least e f o r it s comple
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t io n a g e ncy after r, if its listed all Blockb
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s. On the ustomers theore sented uster
y p e n a lt ie
r c cial custom pre-
arbitrar d e b t s its forme h e e t , its finan a binar ers with
t e ce s alizes. yc
penny an sets on its balan a ll Street re through hoice: Breeze
a s a s a n W th
owe it orse th with a h e shelves
t e is p r obably w andful
st a now release of new
buster s,
o B l o c k is- back ca or scour a sor
a t s h a p pening t c a p s t o n e to its h ta
for som log collection
ry
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, o f c o u rse, the p t r y in g to restru ebt --you ha - anythi
is is dnt alr n
company llars in d eady se g
tory. The r -b illion do m- en.
e t h a n a qu a r t e
f r o m u pstart co
mor llenges uch Home f
t off cha stry -- m remem rom col
and figh g in g in d u ar- b lege in
in a chan little players in m b u s t e r er wandering the
p e t it o r s
ed oozed (there w through mid-90s, I
it menac s stores of my p e re three one loc
the way w h e n it arents w al B l o c
market ap. (In house) i t h i n a 10-mi k-
ket after c o v er the m shelf of
what tu l o o king in nute dr
alla s t o uster ive
out of D a re a , Blockb mentar rne
y sectio d out to be a t
vain for
the thir
ingto n pire d
the Wash l V H S rental em tually c
ensored
n . The ch wo
ain may -shelf docu-
p loca buster
bought u 1 9 9 1.) Block public i m
mage w ovies , but its
never h
av
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burst ou o m p etitors w a, s, a co i d ( We have e had
s c ago), an rporate
voured it Wayne H e titan
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