In an annual update to its “basket of goods and services” used to calculate the cost of living in the United Kingdom, the British government’s Office of National Statistics on Tuesday for the first time in God knows how long, omitted the average cost of a DVD rental from the “basket,” while adding yoga mats, virtual reality headsets, and pre-cooked pulled pork, Bloomberg reports.
It’s not clear how overdue this change was and how many stores (or kiosks) are still renting DVDs in the United Kingdom or its overseas territories. One could imagine that with plenty of remote rocky islands and isolated villages in tiny coves that have dogshit internet service that, yeah, maybe physical video’s more of a thing there than it is here. Still weird they kept factoring it in until 2024.