Best Buy Anime Reductions Confirmed

ICv2 reports a confirmation that the Best Buy retail chain plans a drastic reduction of in-store anime retail sales. Over 460 nationwide Best Buy stores with historically low anime sales will run 50% off close-out sales from March 1 to 21. Following the inventory reduction, those stores will maintain a selection of only around 20 different anime DVDs.

Over 500 Best Buy stores will continue to carry over 100 anime DVD products, and roughly the 200 nationwide stores with the strongest anime sales will continue to carry a selection similar to what they offer now.

Best Buy carries the largest assortment of anime titles among nationwide mass merchants, and is America’s largest seller of anime titles apart the select titles offered by Walmart. This inventory reduction is expected to sustain or even increase anime sales revenue for the Best Buy company, but may have a devastating impact on America’s anime distribution companies. Having more than 500 of America’s most prolific anime wholesale purchasers suddenly cut their purchasing drastically will undoubtedly impact America’s anime DVD manufacturers.

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