Longtime Oakland video rental store operator calls it quits

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The doors will soon be closing for one of the last brick-and-mortar video rental stores in Oakland.

Video Room owner Joseph Lum will soon be packing up his nearly 40,000 wall-to-wall hard copy video collection.

"The economics of a video store is daunting especially with the pandemic," Lum said."We lost over 75 percent of our customers before the pandemic." Longtime customers like Thomas Talamantes say there are things you can find here that you will never find online.

 

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