![]() Downloading movies off the Internet never occurred to her. “It just feels good to be able to come into a place where they’re here because they want to be here,” she said. Others keep coming back because, like Laurel Dowd, 54, they simply like the “feeling of the place.” Dowd said she’ll sometimes stop at Pic A Flic just to hear the staff joking or bantering about pop culture. “That’s what I hear most often, ‘We had Netflix, but there’s never anything good on there.’ Or: ‘We have Netflix, but it doesn’t have the Star Wars films or it doesn’t have this.’ ” We got Shaw.’ And they’re like, ‘But we couldn’t find anything good.’ “And they’ll sheepishly admit, ‘Oh, we got Netflix. “In the past year or so, I’ve seen a lot of customers we haven’t seen in three or four years,” he said. The store’s vast catalogue of more than 30,000 titles remains a draw today, despite the rise of streaming video, Bendall says. “Pic A Flic was always the staple,” said Lucas Woods, who has been renting videos there for 20 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also believes the store, which opened in the mid-1980s, can survive by playing to its strengths: selection and customer service.Įven before Blockbuster, Rogers Video and other competitors fell by the wayside, Pic A Flic was known as the place to go for movies you couldn’t find anywhere else - from foreign films and documentaries to black-and-white classics and quirky independent releases. He took ownership of the store this month, in part because it’s the best job he’s ever had and he didn’t want it to end. He knows they are thinking: Who in their right mind would buy a video-rental store in the age of Netflix and shomi and 24-hour-a-day on-demand movies?īut Bendall, 46, isn’t too worried about that he’s worked at Pic A Flic Video in the Cook Street Village for nearly 15 years and knows that it isn’t just any video store. Kent Bendall knows that some people think he’s crazy. ![]()
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