Veni, Vici, Vidiots

Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgensten on the end of a video store institution

Another bricks-and-mortar video store has been conquered.

And although it’s no surprise that April will mark the end of Vidiots, a friendly destination for LA westside residents and familiar sight to many more zooming off the 10 Freeway past the Pico Blvd. storefront, it’s news that still stings. Last night, Wall Street Journal film critic Joe Morgenstern, who has relied many times at deadline on the inventory of Vidiots and expertise of store staff, blogged about what is truly being lost:

High on the list of losses is something that a young clerk at Vidiots referred to in a conversation a few months ago.

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