Blockbuster brings back the late fees...!

[Canadave]

Part of me misses that childhood thing of going to the video store, but even that doesn't have very much to do with Blockbuster.

Indeed. The local video store with which such memories are associated for me folded many moons ago.

I really miss the attention they would give you at the neighborhood video stores. When I was out of college in the early 90s I worked in a high rise office building and there was this independant video store in the building. The guy did a booming business with just the people in the building. If you forgot to bring it back one day he'd be cool with it and wouldn't charge extra. One time I asked him if he had Rancho Deluxe, an old Jeff Bridges movie from the 70's. He said that he didn't but he remembered that movie and he really liked it. We chatted briefly about a few other things too and I didn't think much about it after that, but a few weeks later he grabbed me when I came in and said "I got Rancho Deluxe!"
I'd like to see Blockbuster give that kind of service. Not only did he go out of his way to order a movie that one of hundreds of customers mentioned in passing, but he seemed to remember everyone that came in.

This is pretty much the place around the corner from me.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Perhaps the death of Blockbuster will see a resurrection of the old video stores... I'd love to see that. I miss my old corner video store and it's been years. The place is now a dry cleaner. I'd love to have my old video store back.

As for the end of the End of Late Fees... That end of late fees thing was such a lie to begin with. I read the fine print. You still paid late fees. They were just more sneaky about it.