Would you still go to Blockbuster even today?
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I feel like anyone that would say yes is just lost in nostalgia. It’s more of a hassle and no matter how much you tell mom the rents are long past the return date she acts likes it’s your fault the charge is suddenly so high!
Does it still count as lost if you're aware and consciously choosing to go there specifically to indulge in some nostalgia? I still go to physical stores for some things that could be delivered straight to my door via Amazon even if most of my purchases have shifted to online retail.
The one thing I'll say for Blockbuster, and physical retail in general, is that it reduces choice paralysis. I think we've all been there, where you're in the mood for a movie or a show and instead of picking one out and watching it you'll just sit there for an hour browsing through the near infinite selection trying to pick out something. Similarly, with access to everything you end up spending days researching all the various hardware components on the market and pouring through NewEgg reviews trying to get the perfect rig together, whereas now I'll just order a couple pieces online and source the rest from whatever's available at my local Microcenter.
I think there is value in having that finite scope of choice, even if the world we live in has made that entire model obsolete and buried it forever. It's not coming back but I do mourn the loss of it.
this is something I learned living overseas. in most other countries they dont have the wide variety of choices like in america and you just kinda take what you can get. and it turns out it's not that bad. I guess the one caveat to that is that matters more for groceries and retail stores. when it comes to games, movies, and books I prefer online shopping because i tend to seek out older or more obscure titles. living overseas was liberating in a way because it taught me to overcome choice paralysis.
that being said I now do 80% of my shopping online because going to the store has become a hellish idiocracy goycattke experience.