Anyone else see best buy stores shrink? - Blu-ray Forum

blackwidowavenger1964 · 08-01-2016, 11:10 PM

My store has a small rack of Cd's now NOT double sided, and like three double sided racks for movies DVD and blu-ray....they used to have six...

Blaze_Chamberlin · 08-02-2016, 05:27 AM

I haven't been to my local store for a couple weeks, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this a new Best Buy space saver.

cbellevie · 08-02-2016, 01:04 PM

Mine started to downsize and restructure the BD/DVD area. On asking a few different employees about this, they essential said it was a response to lack of sales which they attributed to online streaming. The emphasis seemed like it was on big hits, promotions and newer releases. I haven't really been in since as I would usually go in just for a new release and then pick up some other sale stuff while browsing, but the selection seemed pretty barebones.

neoz · 08-02-2016, 10:10 PM

Yep, I warned about this awhile back and it seems to be going company wide but some YMMV in places. Supposedly some places are getting more stuff where others are downsizing a lot.

fatediesel · 08-08-2016, 02:18 PM

I went to my local Best Buy yesterday and sometime since my last visit (about 2 weeks) they got rid of 2 racks of Blu-rays/DVDs. Now they're down to 4 racks of Blu-rays/DVDs.

meremortal · 10-26-2016, 01:26 AM

It just happened around here and caught be my surprise. I was looking where the horror section used to be and then noticed all genre categories were removed. So it was just all blus, dvds, and 3D titles packed together alphabetically. It also looked like the amount of catalog titles were reduced by about half. It was so sad that they were using titles from the savestation display to help fill out the anorexic aisles.

08-01-2016, 11:10 PM	#1
blackwidowavenger1964 Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jan 2014 Location:Shield Headquarters 4K collection:115 Blu-ray collection:661 DVD collection:204 Digital collection:502 iTunes collection:52 Blu-ray reviews: 8 Trading Score:21 Timezone GMT: -6	Anyone else see best buy stores shrink? My store has a small rack of Cd's now NOT double sided, and like three double sided racks for movies DVD and blu-ray....they used to have six...

08-02-2016, 05:27 AM	#2
Blaze_Chamberlin Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jul 2012 4K collection:12 Blu-ray collection:481 DVD collection:156 MA collection:2 Digital collection:126 iTunes collection:1 Trading Score:638 Timezone GMT: -6	I haven't been to my local store for a couple weeks, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this a new Best Buy space saver.

08-02-2016, 01:04 PM	#3
cbellevie Active Member Member since:Jan 2016 Blu-ray collection:224 DVD collection:79 iTunes collection:5 Trading Score:8 Timezone GMT: -8	Mine started to downsize and restructure the BD/DVD area. On asking a few different employees about this, they essential said it was a response to lack of sales which they attributed to online streaming. The emphasis seemed like it was on big hits, promotions and newer releases. I haven't really been in since as I would usually go in just for a new release and then pick up some other sale stuff while browsing, but the selection seemed pretty barebones.

08-02-2016, 10:10 PM	#4
neoz Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2009 Home Theater Gallery:10 4K collection:2 Blu-ray collection:1664 DVD collection:8 Trading Score:84 Timezone GMT: -6	Yep, I warned about this awhile back and it seems to be going company wide but some YMMV in places. Supposedly some places are getting more stuff where others are downsizing a lot.

08-08-2016, 02:18 PM	#5
fatediesel Blu-ray Count Member since:Nov 2007 Location:Iowa Blu-ray collection:410 Trading Score:47 Timezone GMT: 0	I went to my local Best Buy yesterday and sometime since my last visit (about 2 weeks) they got rid of 2 racks of Blu-rays/DVDs. Now they're down to 4 racks of Blu-rays/DVDs.

10-26-2016, 01:26 AM	#6
meremortal Blu-ray Champion Member since:Jan 2012 Location:Bedford Falls Trading Score:258 Timezone GMT: 0	It just happened around here and caught be my surprise. I was looking where the horror section used to be and then noticed all genre categories were removed. So it was just all blus, dvds, and 3D titles packed together alphabetically. It also looked like the amount of catalog titles were reduced by about half. It was so sad that they were using titles from the savestation display to help fill out the anorexic aisles.

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