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Friday, February 15, 2013

Last Howard County Blockbuster to Close

The store in Columbia will close on April 7.

  A big banner was draped over the windows in front of the Blockbuster video store on Dobbin Road in Columbia on Friday afternoon. It read "Store Closing." The location will officially close on April 7, according to sign posted inside the store, making it the last Blockbuster in Howard County to close. The last Ellicott City Blockbuster closed earlier this year. Inside the store on Friday, a customer who was returning rentals told one of the employees she thought the store was never going to close because it was so busy and the employee responded, "I guess they just picked us." As part of the closure, DVDs inside the store are priced at $9.99 or less and pre-used video games are selling between $10 - $40. Rentals are no longer available, …

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1:23 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013

Absolutely. Not everyone wants to have to pay the high premiums required to actually enjoy a movie that has to stream over the internet or upgrade their home router to handle that kinf of bandwidth. Also, this makes it all to easy to have your viewing habits tracked as if you were a lab rat. Wake up people, Big Brother isn't solely your government. Does anyone care that a blueray disk is the best…   more ›

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Report: Blockbuster Will See More Store Closures

The struggling chain could see hundreds of store closures.

Blockbuster, the brick and mortar video store that has struggled in recent years amid competition from other video rental services, such as Redbox and Netflix, is warning that it will be closing more of its unprofitable stores. Blockbuster, owned by Dish Network, plans to close “hundreds of stores in the coming weeks,” also, cutting jobs, according to a CNN Money article. According to the Christian Science Monitor, 300 Blockbuster stores across the country will close, with a loss of about 3,000 employees. Blockbuster has already left parts of Maryland, closing its Eldersburg store, the last remaining in Carroll County, in early 2012. Blockbuster still has kiosk locations in and near Elkridge, according to its website, including at…

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