When Best Buy came around these parts I was totally psyched. I had heard of them but we never had one, then the local Computer City closed and a Best Buy went in. So cool. They had SACDs on a little shelf stuck in the back of the store with a $1000 Sony SACD player at first. No one knew what they were. They were all silver cardboard jacketed, and most were stereo only.
A year or so later, along with the very large CD and DVD sections, they suddenly had a "DVD-A and SACD" section. WAY COOL!! The biggest problem with these sections was that once the good titles were gone, and many times they only got them once and only 3 or 4 copies at best, they would never reorder, thus they turned into Silverline wastelands, which did not help the format at all.
Soon those sections were gone, then the CD section shrunk, and now it's hard to fine in the store. So these days, the loss is, to me, no big deal. I haven't bought a CD there in years.