{"id":1447,"date":"2011-08-31T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2011-08-31T19:29:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:29:33","slug":"blockbuster-canada-to-close-all-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"Blockbuster Canada To Close All Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Grant Thornton LLP<\/strong> is seeking to close the remaining 253 <strong>Blockbuster<\/strong> stores in Canada according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantthornton.ca\/press_room\/press_releases\/2011\/08\/95_1108311652-015\" target=\"blank\">press release<\/a> issued today.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 150 of the chain&#8217;s underperforming locations had been closed last June and the remaining locations were put up for sale. But no buyer stepped forward so the remaining stores will be closed.<\/p>\n<p>There appeared to be several buyers in May according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantthornton.ca\/press_room\/press_releases\/2011\/05\/95_1105261744-812\">previous press release<\/a>. But the New York court hearing in regards to the use of the Blockbuster trademark in Canada had been delayed earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>If the closure of the chain is approved, gift cards will not be honored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Thornton LLP is seeking to close the remaining 253 Blockbuster stores in Canada according to a press release issued today. Approximately 150 of the chain&#8217;s underperforming locations had been closed last June and the remaining locations were put up for sale. But no buyer stepped forward so the remaining stores will be closed. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[132,220,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}