The nearest I could find is a 40 minute drive away. It appears to be an ice cream and snack shop that also happens to rent videos.
If you don’t count Red Box I would say about 10 years.
There’s a Family Video 2 to 2.5 miles from my house with two Redbox sites kitty corner at the major intersection just a little south of it. It’s a smallish but not tiny town in central Indiana near Indianapolis. We’ve got broadband competition - Comcast cable and a fiber provider. Not too far away are areas where the fiber provider doesn’t provide service and some Comcast doesn’t either. Streaming doesn’t fit well when satellite internet, sometimes with download limits, is the “fast” option.
I’m guessing it’s not the greatest place to work, and the people they hire usually don’t last very long.
I’m not comparing working at Family Video to working in the White House or the Playboy Mansion. But how is Family Video that much worse than working in Burger King or Dollar General? Yet somehow these businesses apparently manage to hang on to employees better than Family Video.
Looking at it from the outside, working at Family Video seems like it should be a relatively good gig for a minimum wage job. Let’s face it, you’re not dealing with big crowds of customers. You’re not dealing with anything too gross like the grease pit or a public restroom. You’re not hauling around heavy objects. And you get the perk of being able to watch movies all day.
That is cute! A ‘tanning place’! 
I have never heard of anyone renting soft core porn, ever. At least not as something that needed a dedicated space. First such store I’ve heard of.
I have never heard of Family Video, but there used to be three Blockbusters and one Hollywood Video within a 20 mile radius of my house… all long gone.
My wife and I used to buy videos from Suncoast Video about 5 years ago before they went out of business.
We cancelled our cable a number of years ago and now get all of our media online. In the years since we dropped cable and stopped buying or renting videos, our media options have actually increased, and without the ridiculous $190 per month Comcast bill. Now we watch anything we want any time we want.
I walk past one several times a week between home and work. It’s maybe 1/4 mile from home.
I know, right? I wonder which half the owner sees as the ‘fallback’ business.
The place on Mission? I can’t believe it’s still there. I’ve never been in the place. What’s it like?
I’m probably five miles from there.
There are plenty of Redbox rental kiosks less than a mile from my house, and there are Adult stores renting XXX videos not far away, but I don’t think you mean either of those.
Most of the video stores died in the Great Video Store Purge, but there are a few left, especially non-English videos for the immigrant communities. I find that there is still a human-staffed video store (which appears to be this type) about a mile away.
There’s a Family Video about 20 minutes away.
Yeah, I’m not speaking from experience but working at a video rental store for $8/hr seems like a better gig than flipping burgers or stocking Walmart shelves for $8/hr.
Actually probably just listed because it sells videos. Google search isn’t very smart.
[sarcasm]Thanks for the flashback from a scene in the movie Videodrome.[/sarcasm]
I actually opened this so I could see how old of a zombie thread it was.
I live in a rural area and I think we embraced the internet for things like mail order and video streaming very quickly. It just makes life easier when your only other option is to drive somewhere. Video stores have been dead around here for a very, very long time.
Does a Red Box count?
In Plattsburgh, NY there’s a video store that advertises itself as “the last video store on Earth”.
I dated one in college.