Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
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Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#2I'm a little surprised they wouldn't continue to sell the obvious bestsellers but doing so would probably be a rounding error for them and someone like Walmart in particular is certainly a lot better positioned to capitalize on DVD impulse purchases when people are in the store for something else.
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#3I'm a little surprised they wouldn't continue to sell the obvious bestsellers but doing so would probably be a rounding error for them and someone like Walmart in particular is certainly a lot better positioned to capitalize on DVD impulse purchases when people are in the store for something else.
Shelf space is valuable. They probably ran some numbers and figured it was more profitable to stock USB cables or shampoos over DVDs.
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#4Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? Last time I was there they literally hid all the good games and dvds to reduce shrinkage but it also made it appear like they were out of stock on everything. There wasn’t even a slip or something to know to ask the front desk for inventory.
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#5I'm a little surprised they wouldn't continue to sell the obvious bestsellers but doing so would probably be a rounding error for them and someone like Walmart in particular is certainly a lot better positioned to capitalize on DVD impulse purchases when people are in the store for something else.
Shelf space is valuable. They probably ran some numbers and figured it was more profitable to stock USB cables or shampoos over DVDs.
It is valuable, but what are folks going there for, nowadays?
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#6I'm a little surprised they wouldn't continue to sell the obvious bestsellers but doing so would probably be a rounding error for them and someone like Walmart in particular is certainly a lot better positioned to capitalize on DVD impulse purchases when people are in the store for something else.
I would bet that the numbers on even DVD impulse purchases are pretty low
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#7Are they just going to convert into another cellphone shop? Last time I was there they literally hid all the good games and dvds to reduce shrinkage but it also made it appear like they were out of stock on everything. There wasn’t even a slip or something to know to ask the front desk for inventory.
Yeah they seem to be more out of stock in stores on items. Customer service is terrible too. What’s their deal?
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#8Reminds me of how restaurant chains get bought out, and the menu's "optimized" for the best sellers only. Cutting ingredients that are used in the niches. Narrowing in on the stuff that sells the most only. Until all that is left is the same thing you can find in any of their competitors. No differentiation left. Followed by a slow death spiral towards closure as the race to the bottom leaves only one store of type X per area, the one that has the best lease, or can cut the most corners and crush their workers the most to squeeze a slight profit advantage.
Re: Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024
#9I'm a little surprised they wouldn't continue to sell the obvious bestsellers but doing so would probably be a rounding error for them and someone like Walmart in particular is certainly a lot better positioned to capitalize on DVD impulse purchases when people are in the store for something else.
Maybe not with just a single regular disc, since those require hardware owned by a shrinking group of people who might impulse buy a DVD. But I wonder if it would be worth it if they were "collector sets" or something, maybe with a digital download, and some extra stuff in a box. (Art books, posters, etc) I feel like you'll actually get a few people impulse buying a 100$ set, vs a 12$ DVD.