Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales
variety.com
Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

Best Buy to end DVD & Blu-ray disc sales::Best Buy plans to phase out sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs both in-store and online by early 2024, the company said.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39•1 year ago

    Xbox and PlayStation can both play Bluray, so a lot of people still have the option. But who cares if most people don’t want them? Most people don’t want a Chromebook, but they carry those.

    • keyEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Best Buy number crunchers care. Profit is relative to floor space required.

    • GhostalmediaEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      The cheaper drive-less PS5 and Xbox Series S are the more popular models.

      And people who “have the option” clearly are not buying disks like they used to. If that floor space was a cash cow, they’d keep it around. Best Buy isn’t a charity. Floor space needs to be driving sale somehow.

      In the case of Chromebooks, they could be the entry level price point that inevitably upsells someone to a more capable Microsoft or Apple machine. Or hell, for all I know, that table could be a negotiated requirement from Google. Want to sell Pixel, Nest, Eero, and Chromecast product? Then you need to give us that 8x5 oak table for these shitty laptops.

      Edit: also, Google could also be straight up leasing that floor space.