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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David sits down with Sandi Harding, the last Blockbuster store manager, to talk about Blockbuster and its downfall. Harding goes over the impact RedBox and Netflix had on the franchise, and what she does now to be able to stay in business.
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0:00.0 | You can't help the want to be a part of something that's so good. |
0:02.7 | Sandy, how long have you been working with Blockbuster yourself? |
0:05.3 | Sixteen wonderful years. |
0:06.7 | Well, why haven't you jump shape to my Netflix or to someone? |
0:10.1 | Why are you so loyal to Blockbuster? |
0:12.3 | You know what? It's the people and the community. I worked for a corporation before this. You know I was a number. |
0:18.0 | Who owns the entire brand? The brand is actually owned by Dish Network. |
0:23.0 | What is Dish's plan with Blockbuster? |
0:25.0 | I mean, they bought him out of bankruptcy. |
0:26.7 | I remember when someone who was talking about this vending machine |
0:29.2 | that kicks out DVDs. |
0:30.6 | Oh, nobody's ever gonna want to do that. |
0:32.2 | And then next thing we knew red box was |
0:33.6 | everywhere. Today everybody kind of is hoping there's a resurrection with the |
0:38.0 | blockbuster. It's easy for me to sit back down to oh they should have done this they |
0:41.3 | should have done that they really thought |
0:42.7 | that what they had was good and it wasn't going to need to go. So I'm like okay what can we |
0:46.4 | do the Netflix can't do? Well we can give that personal touch to people. |
0:49.7 | It becomes problematic when you're doing everything yourself and they're not coming out with anything for that 10% your pain. |
0:54.4 | The nostalgia is wonderful. The only thing that's going to keep the doors open is our local community and we need to remember that. |
1:00.0 | If I lose that attention to my local customers, we're not going to be here. |
1:07.6 | So I want you to think about a company called Blockbuster, a multi-billion dollar company |
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