Blockbuster

Also known as Blockbuster Video, Blockbuster LLC

Cause of death

Killed by a successor

with killed by cost as a contributing factor

Made by

Blockbuster LLC

Mail-order and then streaming removed the entire reason to drive to a video shop.

At its peak Blockbuster ran more than 9,000 stores and made a meaningful share of its profit from late fees, which is a business model with a natural predator. The last company-owned stores closed in January 2014, four years after bankruptcy. One franchised location in Bend, Oregon is still trading, still renting discs, and has become a tourist destination in its own right, which makes Blockbuster officially dead and demonstrably still open.