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The last Blockbuster store on Earth is in Bend, Oregon

  • The yellow-and-blue themed movie rental stores were once everywhere, with 9,000 stores worldwide

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Scott Thornton takes a selfie in front of the Bend, Oregon, Blockbuster. Photo: AP
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The Blockbuster store in a city near central Oregon became the last one in the US last year. And soon it’ll be the only one in the world.

The Bulletin reports that a Blockbuster store in Perth, Australia, is closing later this month, leaving the Bend franchise alone on the planet.

Blockbuster stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska, closed last July.

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The yellow-and-blue themed movie rental stores were once everywhere, with 9,000 stores worldwide.

But competition from on-demand movie-streaming services like Netflix and Hulu forced Blockbuster to declare bankruptcy in 2010.

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The company closed all of its corporate-owned stores in 2014.

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