The World's Last Blockbuster Is Still Open Amid Pandemic

In a radically transformed world where businesses large and small are struggling to stay afloat amid a global crisis, the last remaining Blockbuster store, which by most accounts should have shuttered years if not decades ago, is still open for business. You can’t go to the gym, eat at a restaurant or peruse the racks at your favorite store, but the world’s last Blockbuster will be damned if you can’t rent a DVD.

The Bend, Oregon location, which officially became the last one in existence in 2018 after fellow hangers-on in Alaska and Australia finally bit the dust, has managed to survive the collapse of physical media as well as competition from streaming competitors like Netflix and Hulu. Now, the legendary store is bracing itself to battle a pandemic that has already knocked many a more relevant business to its knees.

“We’re still making plans and pushing forward and we’re the last one for a reason,” general manager Sandi Harding told Vice. “We don’t go down without a fight. So we’re going to keep fighting for a while.”

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