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 subs

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.