Twerton High Street Blockbuster store to close
The Blockbuster store in Bath is to close.
The shop in Twerton will shut on March 21 and signs confirming the closure have already appeared in its windows.
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The Blockbuster in Twerton. Picture posted on This is Bath by 26sean
The closure comes after previous reassurance from the collapsed chain’s administrators that the High Street store was to stay open.
Blockbuster went into administration in January with the immediate closure of 168 stores nationally and the loss of 760 jobs.
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Since then the company has announced the closure of a further 164 stores, including the Bath store.
Lee Manning, joint administrator from Deloitte, said: “We have continued to review the performance of individual stores since our appointment a month ago and have concluded that further closures are necessary in order to restructure the company for sale.”
Earlier this month supermarket chain Morrisons bought 49 Blockbuster stores and plans to reopen them as a new breed of smaller convenience stores.
A spokeswoman for Morrisons said she was not able to confirm if the Twerton store was one it had bought.
6 Comments
by ludwigvan
Thursday, February 28 2013, 11:41AM
“Once again the lunatics have taken over the asylum and I am not referring to the comments, all of which are perfectly valid and, I have to say, informative...... I too have an old Betamax C5 that I will now be fishing out of the roof! By lunatics I am referring to the ridiculous amount of red arrows on each comment that shows extreme petulence on someone's part but not sure why. Were they hoping to corner the market in old VCRs and are angry that the cat has been let out of the bag? Or are they mindless staff/customers of said outmoded store that have nothing better to do?”
by tomsjan
Thursday, February 28 2013, 8:32AM
“HANG ON DAVE!!!..........put it on eBay - I just sold a faulty one for £100 and someone wrote and said they would have paid £300 for it as they were so desperate to transfer a film library on to a hard drive and had already worn out two. Had it in the loft for over 20 years and it played but didn't record - still sold it, plus I got £100 for a box of recorded tapes! There must be Betamax VCRs languishing in lofts all over the country but there's gold in them there attics!”
by Saltfordboy
Thursday, February 28 2013, 3:01AM
“How much? I know somebody that requires one.”
by capndave
Wednesday, February 27 2013, 10:47PM
“Anyone wanna buy a Betamax video player?”
by Imp-Act
Wednesday, February 27 2013, 10:34PM
“I concur!”
by joning
Wednesday, February 27 2013, 9:32PM
“I'm just shocked Blockbuster has last as long as it has. It's a more or less obsolete concept.”