‘You can’t close’: Melbourne’s last video store determined to stay open in streaming era

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:25:34 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/19/you-cant-close-melbournes-last-video-store-determined-to-stay-open-in-streaming-era>

"Swan Street has been subject to dramatic gentrification since De Vreught saw a
sign in the window of a video store in 2000, reading “all VHS $5”.

“You can’t do that,” De Vreught decided, “you can’t close.

“They had a good video library.”

So he made the snap decision to buy every VHS in the shop, roughly for their
on-sale price, and began renting the premises of Picture Search, which now
holds more than 35,000 DVDs."

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               *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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