Well, I suppose it was inevitable: Dish Networks has pulled the plug on Blockbuster.
Changing markets and business models left the movie rental stores in
the dust. This means a lot more dark space in a lot of strip malls.
Another chunk of the service sector gone, along with its jobs, such as
they were. I think I'll keep my Blockbuster card as a memento of a
bygone era. Still have my Hollywood Video card squirreled away
somewhere.
Add
to that the fact that oldest daughter just informed me the store she
works in is closing. Not only can we not manufacture anything anymore,
we apparently can't even sell or rent anything. I keep seeing reports
that the economy is recovering, but that only seems to apply to the
Over-a-Quarter-Mill-Per-Year crowd.
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