Would my plan to bring back video stores work?

I don't stream movies but have most movie channels through my Cable provider. I like the randomness of Scrolling through the guide & seeing something new. With that said there's something i really miss about walking into a movie rental store. My father started that when i was a kid taking me there & letting me pick out movies. I'd support that kinda business again, happily.

Besides the cost of running a storefront, the studios overcharged video stores for DVDs and videos. A $20 retail DVD would cost the video stores $75 to buy. Then they would rent it for $3 each customer. It's hard to break even.

I wouldn't rent anything for $12. You might as well go the movie theater for that price.

IM STARTING TO MISS YOU WHEN YOU ARENT HERE.😣

My video store idea is a $15 monthly fee, you can rent 5 at a time, unlimited.

1000 people a month is $15000, that should cover costs.

My god so much to dissect
We know that since streaming has started, we've taken a step back in access in what we could watch.
no we havent there is more available than ever before.

We used to be able to watch any movie we wanted as long as we had a VCR or DVD player.
Now you can watch any movie you want on any device you own - phone, smart tv , xbox etc etc

We weren't forced to buy a movie if we wanted to watch it once, we would just rent it.
you arnt forced to now, you get 1000s of movies avalble for the cost of two rentals per month

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christ , thats only your first paragraph , i havent got time , im at work
but basically absolutletly everything you said is wrong or nonsensical
Streaming does everything Video store rentals does and a whole lot more
Exept for rewinding tapes and travelling to the store,
but you can replicate that yourself by walking or driving around in circles pointlessly

Am I delusional here?
yes! i resounding yes

Your an also competing against pirating. Without spending extra people can download for free.A lot of films on YouTube too.

I think you'd need to offer something people can't get at home.

It depends on what you mean by "bring back video stores". If you mean, bring them back to their 1980s through mid 2000s level of ubiquity/success, then I don't think that's even remotely plausible. However, they are still viable on some level, because some video rental stores still exist. Here's one example:

https://beyondvideo.org/

There's also one Blockbuster Video store left in the world, in Bend, Oregon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(Bend,_Oregon)

I'm nostalgic about going to the video store when I was a kid in the '80s, but I'm not nostalgic in a way that makes me wish I could still do it now. Well, I'd jump at the chance to time travel back to the '80s and do it again, but I'm not interested in doing it in the present. I feel the same way about arcades. I loved them as a kid, and I still like playing my favorite games from when I was a kid, but even if arcades were still a common thing, I wouldn't bother going to one. I do have four of my favorite arcade machines here at home though, and I can also play all of the ones I ever played as a kid, on MAME.

Watching a movie at home isn't a big deal anymore like it was in the '80s, when most people only had three TV channels, and VCRs were still quite expensive. It was more than worth the effort back then to go to the video store, and then go back the next day to return your rental(s). Also, my best friends Corey and Tom were an integral part of the whole movie watching and rental experience, and they're long gone now. Corey was killed in Afghanistan and Tom lives in a different state. Even if they were still around it still wouldn't be the same, because we're not kids anymore, obviously.