‘I miss those days terribly’: readers share their defining video store memories

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

With the arrival of a new video store in Brooklyn, we asked you to tell us about your most memorable anecdotes

After a film had been in the cinema but before a film was on general sale (also called ‘Home Release’) there would be a window of perhaps a few months where the retail price of a single VHS tape would be about £100 [$133]. In a world of digital media that now feels mad, but it was obviously profitable for the rental shops to buy tapes at that price.