Can Someone explain how Family Video still exists?

There the only Video rental store chain still in existences

I think that's the Family Video in my town.

My biggest regret in life thus far is not working at a family video while in college. Every year when school was starting back up I either was lazy and didn't apply or applied too late. My fucking college dream job was to just sit in a fucking empty store watching movies for 8 hours, occasionally helping some elderly person find a VHS to watch or putting back the fucking 5 movies that got returned every day. Would have been a breeze and a dream.

how do they even make the money to cover electric bills?

the stores are coverup for drug sales

>The family-owned company is headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, and has over 775 stores in North America with the heaviest concentration in the Midwest.
My god. There is one near me still too but didn't know there were that many still.

Agree, it's a money laundering front

There's one not too far from me. I don't understand how they can exist today.

Damn. Pretty sure there's still like 3 near me. There was probably close to 10 of them within a 30-mile radius of me a decade ago.

Just checked on google. There's fucking 14 of them within 30 miles of me. I don't think any of them have closed since they first opened. Doesn't add up at all.

You forgot the part where your manager makes you suck his dick in the back room while the store has no customers in it

>living in the midwest
Lol, with shit like Family Video in existance over there no wonder you're all a laughing stock.

Brb, gotta go on a plane and fly over your state.

there is still a market for it? it's not a big corporation like blockbuster which needs to suck each store dry to pay the salary of some retard in an office on the other side of the country

>pays $2,000 a month to live in a shed

>not going to kino Vintage Stock/Movie Trading Company

I worked at one for 2 years ask me anything

they have porn

There's free porn online though.

eh, as long as he's not a fucking pleb who raves about how Tarantino or Kubrick are the best directors I don't mind

I think they have really good deals and usually the newset movies. They stayed competitive with Redbox and Netflix is why. Blockbuster got too greedy.

>a shed
woah buddy I aint a millionaire
2000 bucks will get you a closet.

there's some stuff i bet isn't online or at least it's very hard to find. a lot of the good early 90s shit is nowhere to be found on the internet

A shed/closet next to the beach, awesome stores, hip spots, etc

This but unironically.
You guys remember Circuit City? If it's ever a question of how a retail chain is a managing to stay in business, they're oftentimes a front for a criminal organization.

But the name implies a "family" environment.

So Best Buy is a front as well?

When has Best Buy's survival ever been suspicious?

>how does the only game in town still exist?

Not everyone has great internet. I saw a report about how Alaska has horrible internet speeds thats why Blockbusters are thriving there.

>$4500 for a flat screen TV with protection plan that they scam you out of when you need it
>this somehow isn't a profitable business model

There was a Family Video in the town I went to college in. I went there once to rent a game because I couldn't afford to buy it. They made me fill out a ton of bullshit paperwork to create an account then had to do a down fucking payment of $20 as collateral on top of the rental fee. Needless to say, it was not worth the hassle and I never bothered again. Fuck that dumbass store.

>$4500 for a tv

Nigga, you buyin the 75 incher?

Based on what? They all look the same

They're going to grow even more successful now that ISPs can further fuck over the flyovercucks who defend them.

mexican drug money laundering front.

They purchase the block, build a video store and then rent the space out and make a commercial hub centred around the video store. They make most of their money from commercial real estate rental. Because they own the block the video store resides on there's no overheads aside from stock and staff.

It's in the backroom along with the local meth dealer. You just need the password, which differs depending on the store.

>thinks net neutrality going away will change anything
Tell me again how bad the internet was in 2015. Argue if you want, but I don't give a fuck either way because my internet didn't change at all with net neutrality or without it

Hey moron, ISPs used to throttle bandwidth for stuff like Netflix and Youtube, especially during times when people use it the most

>but the name...
I can believe how gullible people like are

this, the family video where I live is right next to a pizza place and an ice cream shop

>No, there is another.

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I once visited a porn shop they were renting magazines there

Did you ever actually experience streaming issues in 2015 on Netflix of Youtube? I get the occasional lag here and there with net neutrality and before as well, literally no difference. Did you actually experience Netflix taking long load times or the movie pausing to buffer or something? It's not anything I ever experienced.

The only negative that is plausible here is ISPs make streaming sites like netflix pay them some money, which will trickle down to consumers being made to pay another dollar or two for their netflix. Don't really see that happening, but that is worst case... spending a couple dollars a month more. So fascist

I took the picture.

>doesn't give a shit about paying more every month for stuff that only costs more to line CEOs' wallets
>will evade taxes like the plague

Corporate shill or just stupid?

And yes, i did experience massive lag back before 2015 on high bandwidth sites like Netflix and youtube

Northern illinois?

>doesn't give a shit about paying more every month for stuff that only costs more to line CEOs' wallets
I said worst case is that happens, as in it probably won't happen. It won't be the shit you see on reddit about how ISPs are going to offer "packages" like a cable company, and I doubt this will even happen. Netflix and all the other streaming services are already upping prices before net neutrality was kill, if there is another price change it won't be solely because of net neutrality.

>will evade taxes like the plague
What? Net neutrality didn't have anything to do with taxes AFAIK.

>And yes, i did experience massive lag back before 2015 on high bandwidth sites like Netflix and youtube
I'm almost certain you're imagining this or made it up in your mind in these days rather than 2015 so you could justify NN going away as bad.

Again, I don't give a fuck if NN is alive or dead, because it doesn't effect me. I just hate retards like you who make it a bigger deal than it actually is because you saw something about it on facebook.

The Marco's Pizza chain and Family Video have a partnership where you get free rentals with the purchase of a carryout pizza and you even have a order/pickup window within the Family Video itself.

I think I saw a few when I was in portland,usually hipster cities have video stores.

not him but i live in glenview and there is one there

Definitely murfreesboro

What were they a front for?

there are two near me. i'm going to apply and see what's going on in there