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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.

>>kasey_+(OP)
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.