Merchandising
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Merchandising: Lack of Big New Titles Leave Retailers With Limited Options Early in 2021
A lack of major new releases heading into 2021 has left retailers with few options for refreshing their DVD and Blu-ray sections. Some, such as Best Buy, continue to promote catalog sales on its website, such as Blu-ray Discs as low as $7.99. Best Buy did present the week’s modest slate of new releases, but … Continue reading “Merchandising: Lack of Big New Titles Leave Retailers With Limited Options Early in 2021”
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Merchandising: Best Buy Begins 2021 With 4K Sale
A dearth of big new home video releases at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 didn’t have retailers scrambling to offer exclusive promotions for any of them. Many Target locations, for example, still won’t even bother to put out what new releases they do get on shelves in a timely manner. With options … Continue reading “Merchandising: Best Buy Begins 2021 With 4K Sale”
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Merchandising: Lack of Big New Titles Leave Retailers With Limited Options Early in 2021
A lack of major new releases heading into 2021 has left retailers with few options for refreshing their DVD and Blu-ray sections. Some, such as Best Buy, continue to promote catalog sales on its website, such as Blu-ray Discs as low as $7.99. Best Buy did present the week’s modest slate of new releases, but … Continue reading “Merchandising: Lack of Big New Titles Leave Retailers With Limited Options Early in 2021”
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Merchandising: Best Buy Begins 2021 With 4K Sale
A dearth of big new home video releases at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 didn’t have retailers scrambling to offer exclusive promotions for any of them. Many Target locations, for example, still won’t even bother to put out what new releases they do get on shelves in a timely manner. With options … Continue reading “Merchandising: Best Buy Begins 2021 With 4K Sale”
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Merchandising: Best Buy Closes Out 2020 With Bundle Sale
Without much in the way of new releases Dec. 29, most retailers were content to coast into the new year without much fanfare on the home video front. Best Buy however did continue to offer a number of deep discount promotions to clear out its inventory. Among the deals were discounts on anime titles, such … Continue reading “Merchandising: Best Buy Closes Out 2020 With Bundle Sale”
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Merchandising: Stores Offer Discounts for 2020 Holidays
The big retailers didn’t do much to acknowledge the new home video releases of Dec. 22. Many of the big chain stores in Southern California didn’t even bother to put them out, leaving new-release shelves looking barren and neglected as clerks focus on other things, such as mobile phones and video games. In fact, Target … Continue reading “Merchandising: Stores Offer Discounts for 2020 Holidays”
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Merchandising: On the Hunt for ‘Tenet’
The big title to hit shelves Dec. 15 was Warner’s Tenet, the latest mind-bending adventure from director Christopher Nolan. Both Best Buy and Walmart offered exclusive editions of the film. Best Buy had its typical Steelbook offering, presenting a Tenet 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Steelbook combo pack for $34.99. Walmart also dipped into its exclusives … Continue reading “Merchandising: On the Hunt for ‘Tenet’”
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Vudu Running End of Year Sale
Vudu, Fandango’s transactional VOD service, is offering an end of year sale through Jan. 4. The sale features more than 200 movie bundle deals and more than 1,000 recent hits and classics, many of which are available in 4K. Several movies and TV seasons are priced as low as $4.99 (including “American Gods”), and several … Continue reading “Vudu Running End of Year Sale”
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Merchandising: ‘Total Recall’ Among Latest Best Buy Steelbooks
Best Buy Dec. 8 continued its practice of offering a slate of exclusive new Steelbook editions to make up for an otherwise dull Blu-ray and DVD release slate. Best Buy had a Steelbook edition of Lionsgate’s new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray combo pack of Total Recall, at $18.99. Also new is Best Buy’s Steelbook for … Continue reading “Merchandising: ‘Total Recall’ Among Latest Best Buy Steelbooks”
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Merchandising: Several ‘Middle-Earth’ 4K Gift Sets Available at Best Buy
For the home video titles released Dec. 1, Best Buy again offered exclusive Steelbook editions for several of them. Among the biggest were Steelbook 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray boxed sets for Warner’s “Middle-Earth” fantasy series — “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogies, at $119.99 each. The boxes had both the theatrical and … Continue reading “Merchandising: Several ‘Middle-Earth’ 4K Gift Sets Available at Best Buy”
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As COVID-19 Surges, Black Friday Crowds Don’t
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed this year’s Black Friday retail shopping frenzy, in which hordes of shoppers typically camp out overnight waiting for stores to open early on the morning after Thanksgiving — or, in recent years, start shopping right after they finish their turkey dinners. Not this year. With COVID-19 surging in what health … Continue reading “As COVID-19 Surges, Black Friday Crowds Don’t”
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Merchandising: Stores Reconfigure for ‘Black Friday’
Preparations for annual Black Friday sales left retailers mostly ignoring the new DVD and Blu-ray disc releases of Nov. 24, not that the list had many notable titles to begin with. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and a desire to cut down on the massive crowds that typically show up for the bargains offered the … Continue reading “Merchandising: Stores Reconfigure for ‘Black Friday’”