I remember around 10 to 15yrs ago...before blurays were a thing, Walmart would have what I called "The Cheapy Cheapy bins". I called them the "cheapy cheapy bins" because they'd be almost over load with dvds of various titles of dvds & they'd be 2 for $11. I would dig though those for almost 30 minutes, almost an hour if I could buying a lot of dvds because they were such a good price. Now I'm starting to see less & less of the "cheapy cheapy bins" & the choice of dvds & blurays are becoming less & less. It's getting that way with pc games & even computer software!!!! I'm glad that a lot of shows are out on dvd because I'm getting them to binge watch over & over again but it seems like the realization of physical media is very soon upon us. 😞
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! These two local Walmarts I’ve featured in this series had “The Cheapy Cheapy Bins” probably as recently as five years ago, maybe less. These two stores featured $5 DVD bins and $7 Blu-ray bins. They were both blessing and curse. Aside from those, both stores had “admirable” selections to choose from on their shelves, end caps and free-standing kiosks. I could regularly make purchases at either store. My Black Friday hauls from these stores were always impressive. It’s because of the sharp and sudden decline that I’ve chose to create this series. Also, I feel it important to present the other side of the coin in contrast to other collectors who see their own local Walmart stores still carry a respectable selection and organized. Like you, I stock up. I have a nice TV library on disc. I don’t stream and I don’t do digital, so obtaining physical copies is key.
My Target did away with the 2 kiosks and multiple bookends thet had of movies. Over the Halloween and Christmas season they did have 1 bookend of just holiday movies then just recently they now have a pop up stand of maybe 30 or 40 movies to pick from but not new releases im guessing its back stock they couldnt send to other locations ect. I doubt theyll add new releases. My Walmart thankfully still stocks new releases and now sadly its the only place in town to get them, i primarily collect blu ray but for most new releases i try and get the 4K but for whatever reason my Walmart just has an impossible time getting the 4K copies in stock and if they do i guess it flys off the shelf or is very limited who knows. I hope they dont downsize any futher there'll be no place left to get new releases and the only other places to blu ray hunt is the pawn and thrift stores.
Thank you for watching and taking time to comment! I haven’t been in any of my local Targets now (3) for probably a couple years. When last I was, there was maybe an end cap in the store I was in. It definitely stopped being worth going in to check. You can see what my local Walmarts are doing in this series. It’s sad. Right now, selection-wise, Barnes & Noble is the only brick and mortar source worth visiting. However, when I stopped in the other day on other businesses, I noticed absolutely no real organization to how their physical media is arranged, aside from having a spot exclusive for TV. I noted a number of titles there I had already purchased over the previous month for sometimes half the price. The only thing B&N accomplishes is encouraging me to go directly to the sources of say, Kino Lorber, GRUV, Criterion Collection, etc., because there’s no advantage to shipping at the store.
I remember around 10 to 15yrs ago...before blurays were a thing, Walmart would have what I called "The Cheapy Cheapy bins". I called them the "cheapy cheapy bins" because they'd be almost over load with dvds of various titles of dvds & they'd be 2 for $11. I would dig though those for almost 30 minutes, almost an hour if I could buying a lot of dvds because they were such a good price.
Now I'm starting to see less & less of the "cheapy cheapy bins" & the choice of dvds & blurays are becoming less & less. It's getting that way with pc games & even computer software!!!!
I'm glad that a lot of shows are out on dvd because I'm getting them to binge watch over & over again but it seems like the realization of physical media is very soon upon us. 😞
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
These two local Walmarts I’ve featured in this series had “The Cheapy Cheapy Bins” probably as recently as five years ago, maybe less. These two stores featured $5 DVD bins and $7 Blu-ray bins. They were both blessing and curse.
Aside from those, both stores had “admirable” selections to choose from on their shelves, end caps and free-standing kiosks. I could regularly make purchases at either store. My Black Friday hauls from these stores were always impressive.
It’s because of the sharp and sudden decline that I’ve chose to create this series. Also, I feel it important to present the other side of the coin in contrast to other collectors who see their own local Walmart stores still carry a respectable selection and organized.
Like you, I stock up. I have a nice TV library on disc. I don’t stream and I don’t do digital, so obtaining physical copies is key.
My Target did away with the 2 kiosks and multiple bookends thet had of movies.
Over the Halloween and Christmas season they did have 1 bookend of just holiday movies then just recently they now have a pop up stand of maybe 30 or 40 movies to pick from but not new releases im guessing its back stock they couldnt send to other locations ect.
I doubt theyll add new releases.
My Walmart thankfully still stocks new releases and now sadly its the only place in town to get them, i primarily collect blu ray but for most new releases i try and get the 4K but for whatever reason my Walmart just has an impossible time getting the 4K copies in stock and if they do i guess it flys off the shelf or is very limited who knows.
I hope they dont downsize any futher there'll be no place left to get new releases and the only other places to blu ray hunt is the pawn and thrift stores.
Thank you for watching and taking time to comment!
I haven’t been in any of my local Targets now (3) for probably a couple years. When last I was, there was maybe an end cap in the store I was in. It definitely stopped being worth going in to check.
You can see what my local Walmarts are doing in this series. It’s sad.
Right now, selection-wise, Barnes & Noble is the only brick and mortar source worth visiting. However, when I stopped in the other day on other businesses, I noticed absolutely no real organization to how their physical media is arranged, aside from having a spot exclusive for TV. I noted a number of titles there I had already purchased over the previous month for sometimes half the price. The only thing B&N accomplishes is encouraging me to go directly to the sources of say, Kino Lorber, GRUV, Criterion Collection, etc., because there’s no advantage to shipping at the store.