Movie Rental Stores 2000s. In 1996, discovery bought the nature company store and turned them into discovery channel stores. Blockbuster video opened its first store in 1985, with shelves full of vhs and betamax tapes available for rental.
The idea was that netflix would run. Before there was netflix, hbo go, or amazon prime, there was blockbuster. By the early 2000s, blockbuster was in its prime.
Which quickly rose in popularity throughout the 2000s.
Its revenues impressively climbed to around $6 billion dollars in 2004 only to suffer a crashing descent into bankruptcy in 2010. Blockbuster video opened its first store in 1985, with shelves full of vhs and betamax tapes available for rental. In 1996, discovery bought the nature company store and turned them into discovery channel stores. Rental stores represented possibility, adventure, and very often, togetherness.
