pure speculation on my part but i think it's highly unlikely any major chains will fill the void. i swear my local wal-mart has stocked the same cds, dvds and blus for the last four years (barely any at all), and although there's occasionally a good deal to be had at best buy it's basically the same situation. i know the bb in downtown toronto doesn't stock any criterions or anything like that. i'm lucky that toronto has a couple decent independents (sonic boom and bmv). can't imagine you guys have too many options other than vertigo, do you? guess it's amazon all the way from now on.