Comment by kasey_junk
1 year ago
I remember very fondly 2 video stores from my youth, mostly because of the knowledge (and frankly very nerdy) employees.
My breadth of viewing and thus my subsequent taste was extremely impacted by them. And I e yet to find an algorithmic equivalent (nor music or books).
But this is just a bias. Most of the video stores I ever used were garbage.
I presume soda fountains were the same but that didn’t stop my grandfather from bemoaning the loss of the soda jerk.
See I'm not even saying all video stores are without value, just that there is virtually nobody who would prefer to have to schlep to a retail outlet every time they want to see a different movie, which was literally how things worked until streaming happened.