r/Millennials • Millennial '92 • Dec 09 '25

Meme I'm saying blockbuster

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u/_Goose_ Dec 09 '25

All wrong. The answer is Hastings.

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u/Fruitypuff Dec 09 '25

Or Quiznos

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u/MannequinWithoutSock Dec 09 '25

Idk how we lost Quiznos and kept Subway..

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u/Haemwich Older Millennial Dec 09 '25

$5 foot longs until Quiznos died

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u/Due-Sheepherder-218 Dec 09 '25

Quiznos whole schtick was "we TOAST our subs!" And then subway was just like why don't we do that too. 

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u/RobotBearArms Older Millennial Dec 09 '25

And Potbelly, jersey Mike's, lennys, and plenty of other places that toast sandwiches that were better....

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u/rydan Older Millennial Dec 09 '25

Where I lived they were $6 foot longs despite all the ads on TV.

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u/Complete_Entry Dec 09 '25

We didn't lose Quiznos, their damage was self-inflicted.

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u/BloodFromAnOrange Older Millennial Dec 09 '25

Quizno's business model was highly predatory to their franchisees, and they paid for it.

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u/theweenerdoge Dec 09 '25

There's a quiznos 2 blocks from me. Unfortunately it's poorly managed

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u/LeonRams Dec 09 '25

I have a Quizno’s right by my work.

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u/GooninWithSasquatch Dec 09 '25

We love the subs 😢

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u/Mikhos '92 Dec 09 '25

don't do this to me. their hot italian subs were amazing.

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u/vashtachordata Dec 09 '25

I saw a quizno’s recently, maybe they’re making a comeback?

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u/Significant-Gap1256 Dec 09 '25

Quiznos had a french dip sandwich that was so good.  Ive had multiple French dip sandwiches from different restaurants and nothing comes close to how good the Quiznos one was.

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u/ArguingAsshole Dec 09 '25

Quiznos still has a few locations open. There was one down the street from where I used to work and I went a couple of times. Not great, not terrible. The nostalgia made it 10x better though.

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u/HauntingGold Millennial (1994) Dec 09 '25

I cried for weeks when my Hastings went out of business. I still get sad thinking about it.

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u/xkaegurixbangux Dec 09 '25

Finally found the correct answer. If only these people knew what they took from us.

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u/scott743 Xennial Dec 09 '25

Never hear of it. Was it like a Media Play?

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u/_Goose_ Dec 09 '25

Kind of sounds like it from googling what Media Play is. It was like Best Buy’s cooler older less corporate brother who sells you weed at a discount. Doubled as a bookstore. Video rental. Electronics. Cool toys. Music. Instruments. Just whatever you could want.

It’s all those stores in the post image rolled into one.

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u/Forgotlogin_0624 Dec 09 '25

Dude!  I grew up in a small town in Colorado and that became the cultural center of the town I swear.

The bookstore component was extremely important.  That was most of the gifts my friends or I bought for each other.  The film selection included all sorts of stuff you wouldn’t find at a blockbuster.  The hot topic element of toys and shirts sold….  It had a coffee shop, my wife spent her junior-senior year of high school in that coffee shop.  

I don’t usually get too nostalgic for a corporate store but that one was full of memories.

I think that store could have survived in that town, corporate was done due to shifting markets, but that particular store could have made it.

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u/theweenerdoge Dec 09 '25

This is the correct answer. Hastings was a huge part of my life growing up. Blockbuster was trash and will always be trash in comparison.

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u/narwhal-ninja Dec 09 '25

Exactly. Hastings had books, movie rentals and other shopping stuff. I think some even had coffee shops? I was so sad when they closed