I had to vote this up as an ex-employee. What really shocks me is Blockbuster appears to be going along with this -- I think my old colleagues need to be very worried.

I do believe that in the future there will be museums devoted to the history of buying stuff

What really sold this clip to me were the additional digs at Virgin and Borders at the end.

Sent this to my parents.


They didn't get it =\

The news ticker at the bottom.

It seems like the software they use at the register was made in QBasic. That's probably why it takes so long to operate.

Better than Williamsburg.

Fun fact: the Blockbuster Video seen on the cover of the pamphlet was in downtown Ottawa, on Bank Street between Cooper and Somerset.

It's now a Sleep Country mattress store.

Hilarious how it only took 9 years for this to come exactly true.

Not just Blockbuster going extinct, but only one store left open, kept around mostly as a nostalgia museum oddity. They sell nostalgia movie nights where you can rent out the whole store and stage a "movie night sleepover".