Blockbuster bankruptcy (2010)
Blockbuster, the video rental chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 23, 2010, and began closing stores across the U.S. Thousands of locations shut as the company sold assets and liquidated.
Hundreds of stores closed within months of the filing.
Blockbuster largely vanished from U.S. retail by 2014, becoming a benchmark for retail decline.
Like Ns Mart's license lapse, Blockbuster's closures became visible through operational records — store lists and closures — sometimes before formal announcements. A single record is an early but imperfect signal of a business's fate.
