Almost did, repeatedly. That says something for GameStop's tenacity.
A blast from the past, but an instructive story:
CNBC: Netflix didn’t kill Blockbuster — how Netflix almost lost the movie rental wars https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/how-netflix-almost-lost-the-movie-rental-wars-to-blockbuster.html
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