NEW YORK: Before launching a closing sale at her movie rental store in Brooklyn last week, Kathy Smelyansky looked around at the thousands of DVDs and wondered if she would ever sell them.
Business was not what it used to be, and summer sales had been slow. But after she put a large yellow "going out of business" sign in the front window of Video Gallery, one of the last independent movie stores in the New York borough, people immediately began to stream in.
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