Why did video stores die?

Why did video stores die?

Can they make a comeback?

That's some extreme salt flowing right there

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They died because they couldn't adapt to the internet and streaming. Which is funny since for Netflix they started out as just mailing DVDs you could rent to your mailbox only later did they go into streaming.

To add insult to injury, Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix and they turned it down

That's just fucking sad.

i actually used netflix when they started

it was pretty neat

then they started the streaming bullshit and i quit my sub

Did the support for shipping physical copies end or did they drop it all together.

What are you asking?
I think they still do it but obviously that part of the business has been overshadowed by the streaming.

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I have legitimately seen cuckold pornography being sold in the adult section of my local Blockbuster back in the early 2000's, I just couldn't fucking believe it.

and redbox.

Video stores failed because they were ready to charge you fees more than a bank and they required effort to go to.

A streaming service can be done at home, searching can be done at home, and then you watch it. When you are done, you don't have to go back to the store.


The only reason redbox does well is that they are located at the same place you are going to a few times a week and any redbox machine will take your disk. I used to work at a grocery store and I knew the redbox service guy and he would bitch about the Canadians using these machines all the time since it was costly to return them.

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They even sent them to you, for free. Convenient.

No. It's fucking dead. If streaming didn't holocaust video stores for realsies, then redbox is pissing on the metaphorical ashes.
What I'm saying is that the video store holocaust was real.

Video stores were no different than any other brick and mortar store. There was nothing special about them. They were just far more vulnerable to the internet than Wal-Mart because Amazon has trouble with shit like tires ir lawn furniture..

are you 12?

Did they also have "Who wants to watch TV when you can read a book?" in the Cowboy days?

Holy shit.

What's wrong with it? How do you explain spaghetti men then?

Cattle drives were a thing in the 1860s. Television started in the 1920s. Read a book, nigger.

The hell is a Cattle Drives?

If only.
Internet was a fucking mistake.
Fuck netflix, they are jews just as much as spotijew.
They should be holocausted across time and space so they, their children, their children's children, etc., and their parents, their parents' parents, etc. get fucking gassed.
Fuck netflix.

When they move the cows from one location to the next in a big herd.

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I'm mad they took Keeping Up Appearances off, too.

They were great for renting games. Whenever one of my discs got damaged I used to rent the same game and replace the broken disc with the rented one. They never complained about it and I did it with 6 different discs.

Cute shit user.

I remember those days. Good times fam. Good times.

Blockbusters never had an adult section.

I remember renting N64 games over and over just to play other people's save files to see what the rest of the game was like because I sucked at video games.