so that each store's inventory could be tailored to local demographics. Commercial: Wow! Wow! Wow! Kim: In 1987, Blockbuster received $18.5 million from a trio of investors, including Waste ...

Five years after Netflix cornered the online DVD rental market ... customer self-service, inventory management and the logistics to help Blockbuster lay out what their warehouses would look ...

Blockbuster eventually got it. In 2007, the company launched a service, Total Access, that allowed customers to rent a DVD online and get a new movie free when they returned it to any of its stores.