Target Is NOT Stopping Physical Media Sales
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2024
- Despite some recent reports (rumors), Target is NOT stopping the sale of physical media. However, they are downsizing, and I honestly don’t blame them. Here is my breakdown of this “news” and the future for Target and physical media retail.
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I have a question. When are you gonna do videos advocating for physical music formats like CDs and Vinyl Records?
WHERE'S "Barbarian"?!!!!?
I never, in my entire damn life, expected Walmart to be the savior of in store physical media. Went to the two Best Buys in my area for two decades and they finally stopped carrying movies last week. Twas a sad day.
If you're in the physical media hobby and mainly doing so at "in-store" Target, where have you been for the past few years....physical media isn't dead, we have all moved on other places as consumers. It's like beating a dead horse at this point.
*mainly
@@alexdas2000 thanks
Lol exactly why Best buy target walmart will all be out soon. You have all moved on to boutique
My first go to is always my local store. Only when that fails do I buy online.
@@Beetleejuicee best buy sure but nobody else haven't and again they mostly sell online due to them trying to get people to subscribe to their services and etc like that. Movies are still being sold if you really want to buy any so idk where you getting at
Half Price Books, Goodwill, The Exchange, and Amazon have got me covered. Occasionally Walmart but mostly the others.
Goodwill, thanks
Physical Media will never go away completely, it will just get expensive and become as more a specialty. However, I don't like streaming media as it has been taken ownership away from your original purchase. I would not be surprised if purchased streaming will go entirely as a subscription, they can't do this with physical. I'm going to start getting back into physical and setting up my own media server.
Physical media will go away completely. It’s not economically feasible for company’s to manufacture disks anymore unless customers live in an area with Capped Internet.
That how life is
@@DeepDishPizza you will own nothing and be happy
@@CanforCanadainsfirst That’s not true at all. It’s not about owning. It’s just about viewing. Rarely do I watch newer movies more than once or twice. The classics, which I buy the physical discs of, are why they are classics. Sick of all the Gen Z crap these days.
@@DeepDishPizza
It may go away but more people are getting into physical media, so I don't see that happening for years. Streming services are getting more predatory than cable was and not finding what you want to watch without paying extra to rent on the streaming sites you already pay for.
Most of the physical media at my local target is mostly gone. There’s only a couple of racks that have movies. It’s a sad sight to see, but I’m glad there is a lot of other places to get blu-rays and 4K blu-rays.
The Target in my area cut their movie section by more than half. Thankfully they still a decent amount of vinyl.
Certainly no shortage of Swift's new album anywhere I go.
I hate shopping online. I like to inspect my products before purchasing.
I had to order The Addams Family 4K five times and Blade Runner 2049 4K six times, before I got copies that weren't damaged.
Retailers keep shipping items in boxes or bags without any packaging materials.
Bose shipped me a $200 speaker, that is only available on their website, in a bag without any packaging material. I'm going to waste their money, having them ship me that speaker, until I receive one that isn't damaged.
I prefer to shop online. Anti-Human Pro Dog!
Then don't order stuff on amazon
@@donnellcoleman7784It's not just Amazon. Almost all retailers ship their products without proper packaging materials.
Here in the UK we're really lucky to have HMV which has a wide selection of movies both online and in-store. I got into HMV once a month to pick up the movies I'm going to watch that month, both new movies, boutique and classics etc.
But I've always been largely an online shopper since early 2000. It's always been the case that retail never really carried anything but the most popular releases in store in the UK. The exception is dedicated stores like HMV.
I'll buy in person if I can, if not, I order online.
Yep we are lucky we got HMV and Flopp store. But zavvi is the worst website for ordering steelbooks always gets dented.
When people think physical media is dying, then explain why at my local Walmart, all the new steelbooks they recently put out completely sold out. The interest is still there. They just had to get more creative with how they market physical media.
I kind of dislike shopping in person
I would rather just order online. It saves me time and money, and honestly, the hassle of going to a store and not finding what I want.
When I’m at target usually I’m the only one looking at DVDs but at Walmart there is always 2 or 3 people looking for some DVDs. Vinyl on the other hand I never seen anyone buy that.
Long time collector here and who are we kidding, target was never a main source for movies anyway. So what they wanna pull out of retail space, literally everything there is overpriced and even when i would walk into a target i would get their stuff price matched because it was cheaper elsewhere. It makes news and everyone looses their mind lol but like you said jeff this is old news
Back in the day, I bought a lot of DVDs and later Blu-rays at Best Buy and Target. In fact, both stores were my main source for physical media. The trouble I had is eventually, they only sold titles I either have already or that I don’t care about. Amazon has become my primary source for discs.
Wal-Mart also good one & u can go pawn shop & goodwill
I think the main reason this blew up so big was because the original article was vague enough to the point that people thought physical video games were being removed from stores. That’s a whole other issue but the Target statement had to clarify that video games were not affected by this at the moment.
I just went to Target yesterday, they’re still selling physical media, yes it’s only one aisle of movies and music, but they have new movies and some special edition blu rays for classic movies, I think people need to calm down and support physical media. Target’s electronic department is reduced as well, because it’s not a big part of their overall revenue. I bought two DVDs because of BOGO sale for Across the Spider Verse and Barbie, that my cousin wanted on DVD.
Either way Target sucks as a company.
Our local Target is total ghetto.
The restrooms were disgusting last time I was there and their physical media section is terrible compared how it used to be.
Yeah, I stop shopping at Target about a decade ago for most important reasons than DVDs.
Target is more clean & less drama than Wal-Mart
It sucks that fred meyers stopped selling cds. When it comes to music, I always support and buy physical media and the same thing applies to movies and video games. I still buy cds, cassette tapes and mini discs at vintage stores and even thrift stores. Fred Meyers selection of movies went from having a large section of movies to a very tiny section of movies in the electronics development. There are 2 target locations in seattle that closed permanently due to crime and theft. The crime and theft has affected alot of stores in person like fred meyers and target. Crime and theft have even affected online shopping even when customers are getting the packages that they ordered from amazon are being stolen. Shopping in stores are more reliable and secure compared to shopping online since there are alot of risk that are known for shopping online. On amazon they were charging $45 for the same 12 pack of soda from fred meyers. I'm from seattle, sugar tax is already required for items that affect the tax related to sugar. At Fred Meyers, the sugar tax is $1.50 for a 2 liter of soda and the sugar tax applies to energy drinks like monster and red bull and even sports drinks like gatorade and powerade. Sugar tax applies to all fast food places like mcdonalds and wendys. All the costco locations in seattle replaced all the sodas with sugar with diet versions like diet pepsi. I think costco decided to replace the regular sodas for the diet versions because they are required to charge sugar tax. Most likely it will upset the large majority of costco customers being charged for sugar tax on soda since the food court at costco is cheap as long as the customers have a membership since costco mandated the customers show there membership to buy food. All the costcos no longer accept cash since the food has to ordered from the machine and the machine only accepts cards and I still pay with cash. There are even businesses that went completely cashless and only accept card payments even though they are people that still pay with cash. With cash, there is no card skimmers to deal with that has happened when paying for stuff with cards only. Places like 711 and the atm machines at the banks are known for having card skimmers even though using cards are convenient but not very secure since they be easily hacked and replaced with card skimming machines.
When you talk about the retail space for physical media, including online, you can not fail to mention the biggest fish in my home country of Germany and certainly also the US, a small online store called Amazon.
I’m just glad that in Australia we have JB hi-fi but we still haven’t gotten releases like Titanic 4K or aliens 4k and that really upsets me.
If streaming services keep going the way they are then I can see physical media gaining ground again and people will very slowly going back to buying physical media. I can see people getting fed up of the price hikes and the way ads are slowly creeping their way into streaming services.
When I was really starting to become a serious collector Target with my go-to and around that time they just completely got rid of it and replaced it with makeup. I tend to forget about Target but I'm going to try to check them out occasionally. But the physical media is dying videos are kind of getting old because their predictions have not come true. And as long as there's collectors around there's going to be physical media especially from these boutique labels. Poisonous frustrating for me is seeing releases coming out at 35 or $40. 10 to 15 is the sweet spot for Blu-ray. 20 Topps. And 2025 is the sweet spa for 4K and 30 tops.
It's really disappointing when I see releases of old ass movies for $27.00 with no extras on Blu-ray.
My local Target (as well as Best Buy) started downsizing over a year ago, so none of this is news to me.
Which way would provide better financial support for physical media? On one hand, when buying directly from companies' respective shops/stores such as Arrow, Criterion, Gruv, Kino, Shout, etc., they earn more royalties. On the other hand, when buying from major retailers such as Amazon, Target, and Walmart, Arrow, Criterion, Kino, Paramount, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal, Warner, etc. would keep supplying to them as long as there is demand.
The Beekeeper comes out on 4K this Tuesday
No one cares.
Oppenheimer, Titanic, Gran Turismo, Barbie, Equalizer 3, The Blue Beetle, Spider-man Across The Spider-verse
That's the 4K section of my local Target as of today and pretty much all year
My area has stores called Movie Trading Company that carries thousands of movies, albums, CDs, etc. I really enjoy being able to browse in person and occasionally finding diamonds in the rough. My local Targets and Walmarts carry virtually nothing, especially for 4K.
Buying stuff at brick and mortar stores is just becoming a thing of the past. They can never have every movie in the store but can have everything on a website and have it sent right from the warehouse to your home
Hi Jeff, this is great news my friend for all of us 👍
sorry i did not get back to you as i fell sick and just started to recover
My Target has gone to only 15 or 20 new releases on the end of one isle. The physical media is almost gone at my Target.
I believe you but the Target by my home drastically reduced their movie section. Maybe you can still buy everything online?
Did you watch the video? Lol
I was in a Target on Thursday the section was shrunk BUT they did have what I was looking for a Blu-ray copy of the Holdovers😊 where other instore places I been in on had the DVD copy 😢
$5 dvd bins should go away, but $40 new release 4kbd seem really profitable and space efficient.
It depends is it helping ? If not yes
best buy already replaced the bluray section with battery lawn mowers.
Physical media will never die for the smart people paying $40+ for 4k’s and $30+ for blu rays.
My target usually only has dvds in store, very few bluray and even less 4k's. So i rarely buy at target in store, if they had the better visual I'd buy more in store. But I'm not buying dvds when i spent so much on a 4k set up.
I knew a physical media collector who passed away, and his kids threw many hundreds of discs into the dumpster. Didn’t even bother trying to sell them or give them away. When I asked why, they said DVDs, Blu-rays, and CDs are dead. Every one just streams now. Apparently some people really do look at collections we have spent years building as nothing more than garbage that is in the way. Hard to hear, but that’s the way some people, especially young people, view it.
It’s no different than sports cards/non-sports cards being thrown away in the past because many don’t see the value on multiple levels of the items being thrown away. Except with physical media I can find even more levels of value, and I collect both.
I shop online because I have to. I would rather support my local stores.
Then go goodwill or Wal-Mart or pawn shop Barnes & nobles
The way I look at it is if I order a movie online sent to my house, it touches less hands than if it was shipped to the retailer, shipped to the store, stocked in the backroom, stocked on shelves etc. Less chance for damage, higher rate of being in stock.
It still get damage regardless
Was at my target today here in Clermont Florida. Went to go see what they had. Barely anything. The row, if you even call it that at 10 long with about 20 titles. Very limited. It has shrunk since the last time I was in there a month or so ago. Unfortunately for me Amazon is my go to.
What's the big deal if they stop selling physical media? There will always be somewhere else where to buy it, online or not.
Respectfully, with this attitude, physical media will die in the next decade
Keep settling for less and they’ll gut your hobby into a shell of its former self
There always other place like Barnes & nobles & pawn shop n fye & big lots & the exchange
I only buy stuff in physical stores I'm 100% against buying online
Did you see Zavvi put up a preorder for Lisa Frankenstein 4k Blu-ray recently? It's coming out on June 3rd. I've been on the fence buying the Blu-ray. Glad I held off for this long.
Best buy as I have checked all 4k blurays are OUT OF STOCK online, but Target never seems to have any of the new 4k blurays or new releases that matter that I want. Honestly, it's just getting them on Amazon. All this is just unfortunate.
Thanks for setting the record straight Jeff. People are overreacting to Target not carrying much physical Media
Barnes and Noble is still out there
So is pawn shop & Wal-Mart n fye & halt book price & the exchange
Unfortunately, they rarely have anything of value at my local Targets.
I mostly buy my physical movies from eBay or Amazon now, I haven't bought any physical discs, whether it's music or movies from Target in about six years
Oh Good ! I've gotten some really great Editions from Target. Glad to hear it ! Jeff, I have one question for you though. Have you heard anything on the wire about the movie, GRAVITY coming to 4K UHD Blu ray ?
Walmart has been going crazy with steelbook that I don’t know what to get first. It’s a good problem to have, but honestly not one that I’ve had in a while. Some are priced like Best Buy, but a lot are reasonably affordable.
Bc Wal-Mart want be number 1
This just stinks and it's getting worse every month at "Target!" Downsizing them will be a horrible selection and you can't find a great choice of movies on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and even DVD! I have nothing against ordering online (I still love doing it along with indoor retail stores) but I hate how sites like Amazon, ebay, Mercari and other shopping sites overgouging their prices. If they lower it down more often, it would be affordable.
Well the only concern with target is that they shrunk their dvd, bluray, and 4k section even more just within the last month. 2 years ago they got rid of the checkout stand shelves that had some titles. then last year they got rid of the stand by the gift cards. Then this year they reduced it to 3 or 4 shelves by electronics, but last month they reduced it to 1 shelf and that is almost almost empty now. a 50 percent reduction in space from the end of 2023 to april 2024 was pretty noticeable. Thats what prompted people to say target was done. In early march i was able to see over 125 titles on 4 shelves. and yesterday that same target have one shelf with like 40 total titles.
Exactly Best buy getting out of physical media was dumb in my opinion but Target doesn't seem like the place to go other than it's a store like Walmart that has everything.
I think Best buy I should have went in further with physical media and had more boutique labels represented. And really they should have had the Best buy like their name. In my opinion Best buy has become a joke. They hold a special place in my life because I used to buy CDs there and then movies. And it's a cool place to look around electronics. But I have no reason to go there unless there's something specific that I want. Kind of like radio shack back in the day. I only go there if I need a special wire.. plus with the internet nowadays it's hard to find a reason to go anywhere. Except for grocery stores.
There other places u can go to
I'm watching 10 minute videos of people just guessing and speculating. No one really has a clue out here
FYI it looks like that graph was displaying annual sales in millions, not billions
Yes it was millions but I converted to billions
If anything I think target should expand their physical media, there’s a lot of people that shopped at Best Buy‘s that would migrate to target (especially in New York there’s no Walmart here)
Target never does any kind of displays for their movies, it’s completely bare, like they don’t care, if you don’t care, you don’t get the sales. It’s like having this brand new model car that just showed up at the dealership, and you have it hidden in behind cubicles and plants. Then you’re like why isn’t this car selling.
Follow Best Buys promotion of products, as soon as you walk in there’s a big display for new releases. I have to walk all the way to the back of the store, just to buy a movie I want. The clothes and make-up are right up front though.
Does anyone still shop at target ?
Both Walmart and Target have downsized considerably the amount of physical media they carry. All they have is new or newer movies
Oh, i forgot to ask . . .
Anyone have thoughts on when we might see Karate Kid 2 and Napoleon hit 4K blu?
Thanks! 🙂
As much as I don't want to see physical media removed from stores, as a collector who has a giant collection of movies, it makes me excited because the value of my collection will go up. I did most of my collecting of rare oops before COVID times hit. I've already seen some of my collection increase in value. Most recently MGM stopped making physical media in 2022. They sell only digital on Amazon now. A lot of my movies are not on streaming services. Ive had to start collecting bootlegs for shows that never even made it to physical media like 90s goosebumps complete series or the 80s Freddy's nightmares series for example. Etsy is a good start there. How do you feel about bootlegs and do you have any?
For those not averse to shopping online, besides Amazon you could check out Deep Discount and Gruv. Lots of blu rays and 4ks and good sales.
Deep discount sells your info.
There goodwill & pawn shop n fye & half book price & Barnes & nobles & the exchange
I don't doubt your comment about Deep Discount. If this is a concern for anyone, look elsewhere.
All good places to look.
@@DeepDishPizza no they don't
any chance of a future 4k shogun release?
I started in 2021, and pawn shops and amazon are where i picked up 90% of my movies 😅
And Wal-Mart n fye & Barnes & nobles & half book price & goodwill & flea market & thrift stores
Just went to my local target todaym very small selection of 4k movirs. Maybe 7 titles?
the golden age of retail in sales of physical media pretty much ended when online sales took off, if you have patience, it really is more convenient to buy online.
What if blockbuster return but a store like toys rus giant site like was back in the decade is only about selling movies tv series lots of it electronic stuff
Toys r us been back after covid
By the way 4 Walmarts near me and there section sucks also and I’m in 2 states they all the same Florida & NY just buy in line people with Drama 🎭🤦🏻♂️
If Walmart is in charge of all Steelsbooks, we are in trouble. Terrible terrible selection, and I've been to many.
That’s because the employees hoard the good stuff for themselves and resell it
News Flash they haven’t had any kind of movies in years what the problem who cares about Target there’s 8 targets near me there two dam shelves in all of them
FFFF Target.
The Banshee of Physical Media!
My local Target sells a shelf of DVDs and that's it. No 4Ks at all and just a bit of blu-rays. Worthless!
Then u go somewhere else
@@donnellcoleman7784 yeah if they wanted to go the online route, then I'll get my 4Ks at amazon.
At least on Black Friday I will not be broke
Not overreacting, it's been happening and will only get worse. My target literally only has an end shelf for movies. Only rotating new movies
But, by your own estimates, even if you multiplied physical media sales by 10x (rolling back the clock a number of years)...it was NEVER 'as profitable' (or at least as big a portion of their sales) as their other hardlines.
The disproportionate 'pull back' of physical media is directly (I believe) a backroom payola from streamers like Netflix, Disney+, etc. to accelerate the destruction of the physical media market.
My Targets are a joke. They have an end cap basically. I only buy from online stores now.
That look on Jeff's face.
Are they going to make a new movie of Steven droze car horror
:/ I already can't find shit at Target...another downsize?
I think those Target statistics are in MILLIONS, not BILLIONS. It says (in million U.S. dollars)
Having said that... LONG LIVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!
- E
I have to go to target
Ya, your a little late to the party, but still nice to see your face and hear your voice in a new video. :)
It will be interesting to see how Ai impacts the existence of brick and mortar stores in the future. Actually, I'm optimistic we could see some kind of revival or resurgence of brick and mortar stores some time in the early to mid 2030s. I also believe we could see something similar with physical media (of all types) in an age of "on-demand" abundance (aka: in a Post Scarcity society). Want a music CD that has been out of print for 23 years? No problem, just put in a request for it with your local artificial super intelligence and it prints the CD in some vast south American mega-factory and ships it to your door within a week, all for the meager price of $4.00. Don't laugh, I'm pretty sure it's coming.
My Target never restocks anyway so it doesn’t matter to me
$200,000,000 is better than zero. the space taken up by PM is very marginal.
But could that space, albeit marginal, be more profitably used for other merch?
I’m in North Alabama, and my Target hardly has anything left. Fuck Target.
am i really gonna have to buy all my shit from walmart/amazon? fuck!
Go to big lots n pawn shop & barn & noble & fye & the exchange & half book price
Rather see physical media die and a shop to buy iso begin
Dune 2, oppenheimer all of these releases are selling out in the pre-order stages and you guys think you have a shot at getting physical media when its only boutiques left?! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Walmart and Target also still sells physical music formats like CDs and Vinyl Records.
Not enough room for discs - they had to clear more space for “tuck friendly” bathing suits 🤮
Best Buy will not see another penny from me every again and I stopped shopping at Target a long time ago. Both of those chains are on their way out.
And the targays by me have such a small selection of physical media - they may as well be. Who cares.
Thru are not on their way out because they aren't selling physical movies anymore.
I bet Best Buy dies off before Target, but yeah, I’ve moved on from both myself.
@@greenm0bsta889 did I say that or did your tiny brain translate incorrectly? 😂
Then go fye or barn & nobles & half book price & Wal-Mart or big lots & the exchange
Target was never good with physical media in the first place.
They have always had crap and they will always continue to have crap. I would never go to Target for DVDs
Then don't bc there others place
Not where I live there isn't. it's horrible. there's 5 best buys. targets. Walmart everywhere and none of them have shit for dvds. ugh.
@@crackerass69691 try goodwill , fye, pawn shop , Barnes & noble & half book price & the exchange & big lots