Best Buy will no longer carry physical movies in 2024, and I am no longer whole
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FJ00)
Shoutout to Best Buy store No. 265, the movies were always well organized. (I would know.) | Photo by Umar Shakir It's hard to imagine walking into a Best Buy with no library of movies and music that once dominated the center of most stores. If you walked into Best Buy in the late '90s to early 2010s, you were always greeted by a curated selection of the latest releases of movies and CD albums right at the entrance. The sections shrunk down over the years into just a few aisles, and now The Digital Bits reports the company is about to remove physical media altogether, and Best Buy later confirmed the report to Variety.
No more physical media means Best Buy will stop carrying DVDs and Blu-rays, bringing an end to maybe the last enjoyable place you could go to browse around, and a place I would always have nostalgia for after working there in my...