the spouse joked that i should start a movie rental store and folks

[hex@dads.cool]

@vaporeon_ Scarecrow Video out in Seattle rents LaserDisc as well as *ahem* modern video formats

and yeah

i’d love that

[c0debabe@masto.hackers.town]

@hex

[hex@dads.cool]

@c0debabe right?! don’t threaten me with a new escape hatch out of a software career

[mmelibertine@laserdisc.party]

@hex Videodrome here in ATL does pretty well for itself as far as I can tell!

[mmelibertine@laserdisc.party]

@hex so what I'm saying is obviously go for it

[courtney@dads.cool]

@hex movie madness in Portland is killer and a nonprofit, 100% would recommend

[hex@dads.cool]

@MmeLibertine

if i were to do baby steps to a movie theater this could be the first step

[mmelibertine@laserdisc.party]

@hex busting out the whole for this one, friend

[hex@dads.cool]

@courtney y’all keep giving me examples of successes gonna actually make me do something drastic - like write up a business plan or something

[thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu]

@hex I've told you about my friend's store in Maryville, The Dungeon at Southland, he wants to do rentals but is afraid it won't be financially viable, but I remember Two cool stores over in Asheville that ran that operation

[hex@dads.cool]

@Thatonepersonwithaface i feel more and more there’s frustrating with streaming services charging more and still including ads

and there’s always the older clientele that just don’t have the patience for getting the services

i think there might be something here

[thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu]

@hex i can tell you that one store I used to go to (about 15 years ago) would charge a $5 monthly fee for rentals, and $10 for membership buying of dvds, list price for nonmembership purchase.

I do love feeling of sifting through my options, and I've also read Generation Z is really into the blockbuster experience they missed

[hex@dads.cool]

@Thatonepersonwithaface the old rental place back at my college town did a deal where if you rented three non-new films (and had a membership) it’d be $3 for 3 nights. every film you added was an additional dollar and night (5 movies for $5 for 5 nights)

i honestly loved that and would want to do something like that

[thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu]

@hex I'd say it'd be right up my alley, and as I said, I know a lot of Gen Z folks who are enamoured with the concept, if you got a popcorn machine like they have at Rural King for folks browsing, I think you'd be in business.

[hex@dads.cool]

@Thatonepersonwithaface i mentioned “Rural King” to my spouse to pitch this idea and her eyes lit up

heck

this could be fun

[thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu]

@hex "every David Lycnh movie comes with a three pound bag of chicken feed.

No reason, we just think he liked chickens"

[hex@dads.cool]

imagining an aisle that is basically “stuff you literally cannot find on streaming”

if i can get one kid to accidentally rent The Fall (2006) and fall in love with it that would honestly fill my heart so much

[hex@dads.cool]

@josie i want to make a wonderful weird corner like that

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hex (the fall is available on mubi btw)

[hex@dads.cool]

@emily_rugburn hell yeah mubi

when i first hunted it down two years ago? nowhere to be streamed. the only way i was able to see it was by buying a copy on dvd.