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In a world of increasing rents, video-rental stores would have faced pressure regardless of the pandemic. And in some particularly high-rent locations, video re
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
In a world of increasing rents, video-rental stores would have faced pressure regardless of the pandemic. And in some particularly high-rent locations, video rental moved from a store staffed with employees to automated kiosks already in the first decade of the new millennium.
- ghaff 3y agoRedbox is still a reasonable option for mainstream recent releases but it does mean you have to commit to watching something tonight and return it the next day-ish. Netflix was nice in that it had a huge back catalog and, when you got a disk in the mail, it was fine if you didn't watch it for a week. At the end of the day, there are alternatives but, if you liked watching a variety of movies, Netflix DVD was a pretty low friction way of doing so.
- actionfromafar 3y agoThe last rental place in my city converted to be a fancy candy and snacks store, also selling Funko Pops etc. Nothing changed except the shelves of newly released movies now stock funko pops.