Blockbuster files for bankruptcy
It could be the end of the brick-and-mortar video store era. Blockbuster, the world’s largest movie rental company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York this morning, after a tough decade during which it failed to adapt its strategy against rivals like Netflix and Redbox. Jeanine Poggi tells us how this once revolutionary company fell so far behind.
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