It's possible that reports about the resurgence of physical media (based on numbers provided by the historically, very shady publishers) doesn't reflect the reality faced by people who sell physical media.

It's doubly weird, because "cinephiles collecting 4KUHD discs" would seem like a thing Best Buy wants to capitalize on, it's a high margin hobbiest niche much like custom car audio, and it's slowly growing as conventional streaming services are starting to fall apart (HBO Max and Paramount+ especially)

And every Best Buy I've been in, is practically empty anyway. They aren't hurting for floor space, they clearly don't have any higher-margin / higher-value / higher-selling thing they can fill that space with instead.