https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/best-buy-ending-dvd-blu-ray-disc-sales-1235754919/
Plenty of places to buy online elsewhere, but in-store is now slim pickings. Target has cut down on it significantly (my store is down to one shelf and no more new releases are being put at the registers for impulse buys). Walmart seems to be mostly cheap DVDs and that bin of random, disorganized movies. I don't know who would go to Barnes and Noble to pay 75% more. Plus it wasn't like Best Buy was carrying a massive catalog of titles anyway. Every store I've been to has shrunk their section considerably.
The impulse buyers who grab the latest blockbuster will just stream it now.
Best Buy confirmed Friday that it is ending sales of DVDs. “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” a Best Buy spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “Making this change gives us more space and opportunity to bring customers new and innovative tech for them to explore, discover and enjoy.”
Best Buy will continue to sell movies and TV shows on physical discs through the 2023 holiday shopping season online and in stores, before discontinuing sales in the new year. The company will continue to sell video games. As of mid-2023, Best Buy had 1,129 store locations, with 969 of those in the U.S.
Plenty of places to buy online elsewhere, but in-store is now slim pickings. Target has cut down on it significantly (my store is down to one shelf and no more new releases are being put at the registers for impulse buys). Walmart seems to be mostly cheap DVDs and that bin of random, disorganized movies. I don't know who would go to Barnes and Noble to pay 75% more. Plus it wasn't like Best Buy was carrying a massive catalog of titles anyway. Every store I've been to has shrunk their section considerably.
The impulse buyers who grab the latest blockbuster will just stream it now.