Fewer than a dozen Blockbuster Video stores still exist in the US, and one of them is closing.The Blockbuster location in Eagle River, Alaska is going out of business, workers told Alaska Star on Wednesday.
At its peak in the early 1990s, Blockbuster had around 9,000 stores, The Washington Post reported. Most of the remaining Blockbusters are in Alaska, where frigid, long winters and expensive, slow Wi-Fi help keep the video rental store in business.
However, even in Alaska, the chain can't live on forever.
"Technology is a fickle beast," Kevin Daymude, the general manager for the seven remaining Blockbusters in Alaska, told the Alaska Star.
Many Americans haven't seen a Blockbuster - much less gone inside - since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2010. For Blockbuster lovers desperately missing the store, and for video-rental virgins raised on Netflix, here's what it's like to visit one of the handful of remaining Blockbusters in the country.