Get your currently in vogue antiquated material at your local Best Buy! That's right, with vinyl sales on the upswing as CD sales continued to plummet, the former major music/electronic superstores are returning to vinyl for the first time since the early-to-mid 90s.
The move is an experiment in a few select Best Buys, but even then it's a controversial move. Despite the increase in sales, vinyl still makes up only 0.2% of music sales, and devoting signficant store space to a miniscule market, particularly one where the target audience mainly uses independent stores and eBay, is a huge risk.
Then again, the increased access to vinyl may mean an even larger boom in the market. But when Best Buy cites its reason as the increase in sales in one city, the particularly trendy Minneapolis, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence. It's also less susceptable to piracy, which is fair, if you assume no one who owns a record player also owns a computer that can download BitTorrent.
I don't think this will last long. I don't think vinyl buyers will purchase records at a chain like Best Buy.