Did we ever talk about Blockbuster’s January movements?

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Edit x: Hijacking my own post to give u/Get-It-Got‘s post on Sears the visibility it deserves:

Talk of Sears, GME & The Hive Mind*** from Superstonk

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So I was reading this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/pganze/their_goal_is_to_never_cover_their_short_ever/

And the interesting part was:

r/Superstonk - Did we ever talk about Blockbuster's January movements?

Thankfully there’s a TA;DR

And what if those perpetual short positions were all at risk on the 27th so they had to shut off the buy button because we were litterally one day away from MOASS?

And then I saw this…

So I looked over here:

And then I looked at January:

And now I’m wondering, did we ever really look at these in January? Why would a dead, delisted company go from 32k to 3million trades?

For reference, GME traded 93 million that day. Maybe retail bought the shares? Unlikely. It took a very deliberate search for me to find the Blockbuster stock. And, it’s delisted.

Did we ever really look at Blockbuster in January? What other stocks had a spike in volume on the 27th?

Edit1 thanks to u/Get-It-Got :

Sears traded 300k on the 26th, 6.88 Million on the 27th

Further reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/oyw840/something_about_sears/

Edit 2: u/rabble_rabble311

Toys R Us was a mixed bag at the time:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/07/23/toys-r-us-is-coming-back-and-yes-you-can-invest-in.aspx (yes yes, Motly fool blah blah)

Toys R Us — Holy mother of god:

Mac traded 17Million on the 26th

Macys traded 37Million the 26th

Edit 3 Borders:

BNED traded 800k on the 26th. Their price has moved a lot more, but focus here on the abnormal volume. It went from 800k avg per day, to 2.6million on the 27th.