Believe it or not, many people actually enjoy visiting them. And walking through a typical video store is actually a highly efficient way to search for what you want. Movies are all categorized and displayed in full color. When you select one and bring it home, you are actually transporting more than 100 Gbytes of data with you. Even if the new release that you want to see is out of stock, it's not that big a deal.
Most people can wait a week or two.
The inhabitants of Littleton seem to agree with this. The market research showed only a slight decline in video store rentals among these families. Cable companies may yet build some sort of interactive infotainment superpipe. But they will probably have to come up with some other killer app, some other reason for people to subscribe to a new generation of cable services. But no one has proof that there will be enough demand to justify the costs.