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Gymboree across North America are set to close after going into bankruptcy.  Once again an American company saddled with debt from a ill c...

Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries is a major corporation in Manitoba albeit a Crown Corporation. The government of Manitoba knows that the fed...

Music Traders became home to Movie Village after it closed The first video rental store in North America came in 1977 in Los Angeles whe...

Just announced today is Redbox will be shutting down all Canadian locations. Last day for rentals will be February 13 and returns back by ...

Rogers Video old location Kenaston Village Blockbuster Video old location Portage Avenue Many of the old Rogers Video and Blockbust...

Assiniboine Credit Union Kenaston Village Assiniboine Credit Union Scurfield Blvd They were tiny and I at some point, it was expecte...

It is surprising that no mention is being made of a significant change in ATMs at 7/Eleven . They were the exclusive domain of CIBC but ...

Reenders Square circa 2009, now home to Famous Dave's Winnipeggers have waited a long time but Famous Dave's opened this wee...

It sucks if you rent videos or games. The choices are becoming limited to small kiosks for videos and nothing really for games. We keep hear...

The aftermath of the closure of Blockbuster has been rather swift moving in Winnipeg. Most of the old locations have been grabbed by other ...

Many were closed earlier. The rest are going now. Blockbuster US basically threw Blockbuster Canada under the bus and used its America...

We recently saw Blockbuster Video in the Osborne Village close down . It has been something happening across North America although at a s...

The continued makeover of how people get their television and other entertainment is being re-written by Netflix . CBC has made available m...

Follow-up on the DVD rental racket: Blockbuster has announced that they will have a new unlimited plan for $9.99. Someone else wrote about ...

DVDPlay started putting kiosks in Safeway in July of this year. It was a about a week later that the one in Charleswood went on the blink...