Porter Square Blockbuster Video closing

[enfa.livejournal.com]

I stopped in Porter Square Galleria yesterday and Blockbuster Video is closing their shop (lease is up).

Cantabrigia says that their last day is August 23: http://ow.ly/gcen

Entire inventory on sale. Most everything is at least 25% off, still a sizable amount of media and trinkets available.

Anyone have further information? What kind of shop would work there in its place? A clothing store would do well there, with the Gap and Burlington Coat Factory gone...

Comments

[teko.livejournal.com]

Just this store. Their lease is up. Though Blockbuster is doing poorly nationwide, especially with Redbox and Netflix gaining popularity, so I doubt the chain will last, honestly.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I wouldn't be sad to see it go - even when I was a kid I knew that any place featuring "57 copies of Beethoven's 2nd in stock - Guaranteed!!" was the devil's work.

[ron_newman]

It's not one of the more frequently performed pieces -- you'd prefer the 9th?

(Seems like this location is too far from NE Conservatory for the stocking to make sense.)

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

On the one hand, I'm kind of puzzled you didn't get my reference to the Charles Grodin debacle (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106375/); on the other hand, I'm relieved for you.

[ron_newman]

Never heard of the movie that you just linked to. It's about a piano-playing dog?

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

It's a kid's movie about some kind of gross dog - it's atrocious, getting stuck watching it was absolutely the worst part of babysitting as a preteen. -_-

[spatch]

It's a live-action Marmaduke. Charles Grodin so deserved better.