The closure of the last three hundred remaining Blockbuster video stores should be welcomed news to suburban haters and those that grew in the suburbs and saw many neighborhood corner family run video stores disappear. Blockbuster block busted many of these video stores out of business and now it is magnanimous to see this once corporate behemoth of middle size box stores take it on the fucken chin and finally get its ten count. dark clouds are emerging for these corporate box retail outlets as wealth moves away from the burbs and poverty moves in from the cities. Big box stores will never be able to get the square footage in the urban areas as they were accustomed to in the past. Blockbuster closing is a good thing for those advocating a new urban ism in towns surrounding major cities. All these buildings that look the same were made cheaply and possible only because corporate monopolies were able to outbid one another for cheap real estate. The less of these retail fucks that only care for profit and not uniqueness of the building or area they operate their business, the better will the environment and architecture will once again be seen.
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