You're browsing the comedy section of a Fond du Lac video rental store as the smell of buttery popcorn surrounds you. The clerk reminds you to rewind ... Competing store Blockbuster Video opened ...
Irene Kim: At its peak in the late '90s, Blockbuster owned over 9,000 video-rental stores in the United States, employed 84,000 people worldwide, and had 65 million registered customers.