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   "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives   
   despite mainstream consumer shift.   
      
   "Located at 1172 Bay Street in Toronto at the base of a 1980s     
   luxury condominium tower, customers can walk into a time     
   machine to rent or buy their favourite movie for the weekend.     
   The location of the video store has been around for 40 years     
   and changed ownership in 1993 to Bay Street Video. Now, the     
   retailer is known to have the largest DVD collection in     
   Toronto.   
      
   "We are a very profitable store, we view ourselves as the     
   little store that could," says Dwayne Aylward, the Bay Street     
   Video store manager. "In this city, you see these types of     
   stores closing, and we are thriving. It really confuses people     
   when they find out we exist."   
      
   "Bay Street Video has close to 40,000 titles, a number you   
   can't find anywhere else.   
      
   "Customers can find newer movies, or you can buy an 80s classic   
   - there is something for everyone. Bay Street Video has the   
   largest collection in Toronto, and even possibly Canada says   
   Aylward. They offer thousands of titles in DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K   
   UltraHD.   
      
   "Video stores are becoming a dying industry and as streaming     
   services are on the rise, Bay Street Video is having a harder     
   time getting new releases on DVD.   
      
   "The biggest challenge is a lot of newer movies these days are   
   only available on streaming service," says Aylward. "People are   
   hearing about a movie, and we have to say that movie is only   
   available on Apple or Netflix. The hope is a company will get   
   the rights to the movie and put it out on DVD, but that is not   
   always the case."   
      
   More to the story, with some photos:   
      
   https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2022/06/highly-    
   profitable-bay-street-video-store-in-toronto-thrives-despite-    
   mainstream-consumer-shift-interview/   
      
   https://bbs.lc/Y2z2C   
      
      
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