I never saw a Hastings until I moved to Utah. And in fact, that Hastings is still there. Well sort of, they closed down and then re-opened the store under a new name. It's now "Entertainmart" but they do the exact same business as Hastings. Might be different owners or something; I wouldn't know.
But honestly, I haven't rented a video game since the days of the Nintendo 64. (Or then again I might have rented something once on the Gamecube, but I don't really recall.) The reason being that I prefer to own games, not just rent them. And ever since I had a job, I've had the money to buy them. Renting games was only I thing I did when I was a kid, when it was my parents' dollar.
It's not about rental prices or store locations, but if I like the game I want to own it, not just play it for one week. And I hate to rent something, decide I like it, and then buy it. That means I spent more money than if I just bought it to begin with!
I think the model Hastings/Entertainmart use was that you can rent something and if you want to buy it the rental money can go toward your purchase. That's pretty brilliant and I would have made more use of that were it not that for the past few years I've either been broke AF or I've been too busy working on games to be able to play any. I would have rented a lot more games if the stores near me did that back in the Gamecube days.