Dave Carrera is seeing the last Blockbuster store through to the very end — and he's doing it from his Plano home.
Visitors mill around outside the last Blockbuster store in Bend, Ore., on May 31, 2021.
Carrera’s contributions to the scrappy store, he admitted, are modest. Every week, he inputs new titles into the system. Once in a while, when a part needs replacing, he’ll ship it up; knowing the franchisees would need backups, he snagged as much equipment as he could before the distribution center shut down. But this technology, he said, was built to last.
Dave Carrera still supports the last remaining Blockbuster store in Bend, Ore., from his home in Plano, Texas. The company’s entire point of sale system resides in Carrera’s home office, where he's pictured on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Harding said that she and the owner of the Bend store, Ken Tisher, have discussed upgrading the systems, “but now we’ve got the nostalgia piece,” she said. “When people come in, they expect to see my IBM computers. They expect that I’m going to still have those floppy disks behind the counter.”Carrera has visited the store in Bend only once, last summer. “It was everything I was hoping,” he said.
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