The final Blockbuster store, located in Bend, Oregon, is closing its doors on October 31, 2024, marking the official end of the iconic video rental chain." He also credited NBC News as his source.

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Harding, who has worked at the Blockbuster outpost in Bend since 2004, has seen plenty of ups and downs at the store. In the pre-streaming era, Blockbuster video stores were everywhere.

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The last Blockbuster is in Bend, Oregon, ... But with the arrival of Netflix, Blockbuster stores began disappearing. Following bankruptcy in 2010, Blockbuster closed nearly all of its stores.

Blockbuster closed its last few hundred corporate-owned stores in 2013 but privately owned stores that license the Blockbuster brand, like the one in Oregon, have remained. Most Read Business Stories ...

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That leaves a lone Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon as the last man standing in a video chain that, at its peak, had more than 9,000 stores, half outside the US, and employed more than 84,000 people ...