Netflix has spent years crushing movie theaters - turns out, it kind of needs them now

One of the more fascinating trends to watch these days is the way big digitally focused tech companies are incrementally moving back into the physical world, and into the realm of competitors they differentiated themselves against and crushed in the first place. Think, for example, Amazon's investment in brick-and-mortar retail, with its bookstores and grocery ventures. The company turned founder Jeff Bezos into the wealthiest man on the planet partly by all of us splurging on e-commerce and buy...