Talk:Media Play

Best Buy? Remember them?
This article blindly parrots the official reason for shutting down Media Play. And it completely ignores the fact that the both Media Play and its parent were part of Best Buy at the time. Sloppy. More thorough research might start with this discussion:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=228319&cid=18501507 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.18.43.225 (talk) 23:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC).

Too bad
There was one of them that I was going to when I visited family out of state. When they had their cafe they had better cappuccinos than most coffee places.

At least they didn't screw people with the replay points like Sam Goodie/Suncoast did when they closed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.253.68 (talk) 06:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Unprofitability
" It is thought that the unprofitability, caused by competition from Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and online retailers such as Amazon.com, was the major factor in the decision to close the retail chain."

You think? Since when would that not be a factor in closing a business down?

All snark aside, I do tend to put most of the blame on the rise of online retail, although I see how Best Buy's changes might have accelerated that decline. As late as a decade ago, Media Play was still everything it was in its prime. But that changed around the early 2000s ... by 2003 it seemed like all the stock worth browsing had disappeared and there wasn't anything you couldn't find everywhere else. I think I last went to the South Hills Mall Media Play in 2005 or so ... God, it was so empty and dead compared to the lively stores the company ran in, say, the Buffalo area in its prime.

But, of course, all those product lines were gradually getting eaten up by Amazon and other online retailers by then. I don't think they would have made it to 2010 in any event. Sic transit gloria mundi... Daniel Case (talk) 06:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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