Electronics retail chain closing 100s more stores in survival fight

Blockbuster Video died because Netflix eliminated the need to go to a video rental store. Once you could stream movies to your home, physically visiting a store to pick up a DVD, which you then had to return, made very little sense. As someone who grew up in the VHS era, I do miss the days when the clerks at Photographics, the video rental store in my hometown of Swampscott, Mass., could recommend a movie for me to watch. Something was lost when brick-and-mortar rental stores closed, but knowledgeable c ...