Get DVDs Shipped to Your Door: Help Save the Last Great Video Store

Remember the magic of video stores? You can still rent movies-and have them shipped to your door. Help a local store keep that magic alive!

Odin Halvorson
4 min readOct 19, 2024

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Do you remember the magic of the video store? Imagine it: the smell of fresh VHS and DVD boxes; the way you could browse the shelves until something seemed to almost leap out at you, the name or the cover designing screaming, “You need to watch me!” What if I told you that you can still rent videos from a local video store and that, even better, you could have those videos shipped right to your door?

It’s possible, and the non-profit video store responsible needs your help to expand.

The state of the streamers

You’ve probably noticed how things have gotten worse on streaming services. Like me, you’re probably getting a little nostalgic for the good old days when you could walk over to your local video store and find the latest shows and movies available for the cost of a cookie. You might even fondly remember Netlfix, before it’s enshittification, when you could order any of its DVDs and have them shipped straight to your door for a low monthly fee.

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Odin Halvorson
Odin Halvorson

Written by Odin Halvorson

A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. MFA/MLIS. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.