Miracle Day R1 DVD Announced

[The Wormhole]

Interestingly enough, my local Best Buy (in Nova Scotia) also had Miracle Day on the shelves yesterday. When I attempted to buy it, it wouldn't scan at the register. When the cashier called the supervisor over, the supervisor declared that it's not supposed to be on sale yet and took it away. Shortly afterwards, all other copies were pulled off the shelf.

Obviously someone at Best Buy doesn't understand the concept of "release date." Interesting that it seems to be country-wide.

 

[23skidoo]

Interestingly enough, my local Best Buy (in Nova Scotia) also had Miracle Day on the shelves yesterday. When I attempted to buy it, it wouldn't scan at the register. When the cashier called the supervisor over, the supervisor declared that it's not supposed to be on sale yet and took it away. Shortly afterwards, all other copies were pulled off the shelf.

Obviously someone at Best Buy doesn't understand the concept of "release date." Interesting that it seems to be country-wide.

They've done this before, though I think the Calgary store I was at was actually selling them because there were clear signs that there had been copies of the DVD set sold. I never took mine to the till because I want the Blu-ray so for all I know the same thing might have happened.

HMV did this with the last set of classic series Who - they had Caves of Androzani out a week too early. I agree the whole concept of "release date" seems to allude some people. That's probably why they have the failsafe set up where the computer won't let them sell.

I've never seen Wal-Mart carry and DW or TW DVDs in Ontario.

Future shop had a tonne of classic and new series DVDs and then when I went to look last week... nothing. Just some Series 5 and 6 sets with all the shelf space taken by other titles. So I guess Future Shop is done with classic DW.

Wal-Mart here in Calgary carries Torchwood and new-series sets of DW occasionally, but I've never seen classic.

Your second statement concerns me, remembering Best Buy and Future Shop are owned by the same company. If they've decided to stop carrying classic Who that will be very disappointing. There's still HMV but as everyone knows it's "dead chain walking" and everytime I go to the mall I expect to see it shuttered like it's been in some major locations like downtown Vancouver. Once it closes, and if Best Buy/FS/Wal-Mart is only going to carry new series releases, the only way for most Canadians to obtain Classic Who DVDs will be via Amazon.

Alex