This only works on people from podunk nowhere. Most of us had rental stores, not a rental section of the supermarket. I'm gen z but I remember renting tapes and dvds from blockbuster, and Netflix rising to prominence. I also remember streaming shows over iTunes or something on one of my parent's laptops with incredibly bad quality. Sometimes I miss just going to my friends house to "use the computer" and just do weird stuff online for a few hours before we got bored and started shooting nerf guns. I also remember blockbuster closing and my family buying a ton of discs as they were cleaning out.
Respectfully disagree. I grew up in a top-25 MSA and all our grocery stores had these. When we visited family in another very large city their grocery stores had them too.
I spent most of my life in the burbs which only had stand-alone rental places but when my mom moved to a small city they had a rental place in the grocery store too
This only works on people from podunk nowhere. Most of us had rental stores, not a rental section of the supermarket. I'm gen z but I remember renting tapes and dvds from blockbuster, and Netflix rising to prominence. I also remember streaming shows over iTunes or something on one of my parent's laptops with incredibly bad quality. Sometimes I miss just going to my friends house to "use the computer" and just do weird stuff online for a few hours before we got bored and started shooting nerf guns. I also remember blockbuster closing and my family buying a ton of discs as they were cleaning out.
Respectfully disagree. I grew up in a top-25 MSA and all our grocery stores had these. When we visited family in another very large city their grocery stores had them too.
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I spent most of my life in the burbs which only had stand-alone rental places but when my mom moved to a small city they had a rental place in the grocery store too
See I grew up in the middle of nowhere and we didn’t have this. We just had to drive into town and go to blockbuster if we wanted to rent movies
We had VHS rentals at Longs (what are now all CVS/Walgreens) in the Bay Area as late like 2004 IIRC