[TedDoesntTalk]

Parent is referencing how Blockbuster put all the local video stores out of business, like Walmart and Main Street America.

It happened with record stores, too, via Tower Records and other national chains I can’t remember now

[JackFr]

Good record stores outlasted Tower Records. What failed were record stores which were basically Tower records, only watered down weaker versions.

[pessimizer]

Good bookstores didn't outlast Borders/Barnes & Noble/Books-a-Million etc. (or at least 90% of them didn't.) It was really annoying when people were mourning the destruction of 15 year old book warehouses by Amazon, when I was still mourning 100 year old bookstores.

[MomoXenosaga]

I don't go to bookshops anymore. Books are just a commodity now, they push the latest product for a few weeks and move on the next. It is all part of the hype machine. After a month or so it's like the book never existed at all- it had it's five minutes of fame.