My teacher weaponized his discount. In the grade school I was at you stayed with the same teacher for 1-6 grade, and my teacher kept a classroom library. And every year when the book fair came around, every kid that kept their grades at the B line or higher got to bring him one book that he would buy and add to the collection.

My class ended up makin that man put up two new bookshelves over those six years.

My program offered free weekend rentals from the local video store. Then fuckin blockbuster gobbled up all the locals and said “no, fuck that shit”. Luckily I was aged out by then.

Mostly because almost nobody knows it exists in the west.