The Video Store scene...
R.I.P. Video stores! :-(
And VHS
lol. you miss those?
-having to go there before they close
-not having your video, because someone else has rented it
-physically leaving your house and spending X minutes in travel time
-staff who are rude, obnoxious
-waiting in a queue
-scratched movie\DVD that wont work
-late fees
Versus
Press 1 button on my mouse
The bonuses of video stores are
- possibly meeting your future wife/husband there
- recommending a 'good' movie to someone in person
- making friends with the dudes working there
- the good feeling of browsing
- having a reason to go out for the night, killing some time
- possibly being able to get something you can't get online somewhere
- giving a business money
I'm OK with video stores going away, though. It's called evolution/survival of the fittest/lucky.
lol :)
I think all stores are going to go away, not just video stores.
IN the future, retail shopping will be dead, everything will be online.
Both you and I will be long dead before that can conceivably happen. Stores are here to stay for the long time being. I can't imagine having to depend on those lazy louts at the courier service for my well-being. If people think customer service is bad in stores, they haven't seen anything yet. *shudder*
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I liked video stores so much because they sell their used copies after X amount of time. If you rented a movie and really liked it, you could just pick up a cheap copy after the hype goes down and they surplus copies.
They also had sales and stuff where you could buy multiple movies. They also had foreign films and direct to video stuff, usually Rogers and Blockbuster would have lots of varied selection.
I think all stores are going to go away, not just video stores.
IN the future, retail shopping will be dead, everything will be online.
I agree with you 100%. Yet, here on Long Island they are building corporate retail strip malls on every piece of land available. And aside from Christmas, when you walk in, the shelves are half empty and there is no one really in them. Plus there's always announcements of bankruptcies and store closings.
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- the good feeling of browsing
Man, remember that time when we didn’t know so much? Hell I’m seven years ahead of you in the future so it’s even worse than when you wrote this initially. But damn, just remembering the feeling of just browsing movie covers without knowing everything already and having that feeling of discovery and slowly uncovering something bigger than yourself… such a mood right there. share
Yeah, it's called socialising. It's something human psychology was evolved to do. Not stay locked in a basement, living on snack foods and never seeing daylight and other people.
This is why we have a generation of feckless, rude, self-centred shut-ins who cannot handle the real world.