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    Berlin Blockbuster will close
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     | February 18,2013
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    Jeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo

    Customers head for the Blockbuster video rental store in Berlin last week. The local branch of the national chain is closing.

    BERLIN — The Blockbuster Video store on the Barre-Montpelier Road began liquidating its inventory recently and town officials say the store is expected to close for good by April 1.

    The store’s manager declined to comment and the company’s corporate headquarters did not return phone calls. But Town Administrator Jeff Schulz said he learned of the scheduled closing date during a recent conversation involving the tax bill for the store that is located in a building it shares with Bond Auto Parts next to Kinney Drugs.

    Used DVDs and games are being sold at cut-rate prices as part of the sale.

    The closing of the Berlin store is presumably part of Blockbuster’s recently announced plan to close 300 of its 800 U.S. stores, laying off about 3,000 nationwide.

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