Target Planning to Stop Selling Physical Media Online and In-Store by 2025 - Rumor

[Deadd2009]

Target Planning to Stop Selling Physical Media Online and In-Store by 2025 - Rumor

Target is supposedly going to be the next major retailer to abandon the physical media market.

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According to a new rumor, retailer giant Target is planning to stop selling physical media both in-store and online by 2025 in what would be a substantial blow to the physical media market, including the physical games market. Each year, the gains of the digital market chip away at the health and wealth of the physical media market. In 2024, you may be hard pressed to find physical media for your favorite movie or TV show. The physical games market has faired far better, but this would be a blow to it as Target is one of the biggest retailers in the United States. Further, it would be a continuation of reports of Walmart and more doing the exact same thing in the near future.

As for the rumor itself, it comes the way of popular X account "President Of Physical Media." As the name suggests, they specialize in physical media, and thus it is reasonable to expect this specific scoop from them. Despite this, it's unclear how extensive or reliable their track record is, so keep this in mind as well.

The rumor doesn't say much beyond noting that "Target sources" have told President of Physical Media that the retailer is planning to stop physical media both online and in-store by 2025, likely because of the declining market and the cost of selling physical media compared to digital media.

For what it is worth, while this is symbolically a big deal, given the size and stature or Target as a retailer, they have not been carrying much physical media the past few years. Suffice to say, if this rumor is true, it's not going to surprise many.

At the moment of publishing, Target has not addressed this rumor in any capacity. We don't particularly expect this to change for a handful of reasons, but if it does, we will be sure to update the story accordingly, regardless of whether the comment or statement is salient. In the meantime, and as always, feel free to leave a comment or two letting us know what you think. What do you think of this potential decision from Target? Is it the right call?

Target -- for all those who may not know -- is an American retail corporation that operates a massive chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets. The company is based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota and is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

I mean that'd be fucking disastrous for business and would lead to further closures.

 

[Jimmy King]

The Target I work at our physical media section has started dwindling down. We still have movies but not as wide of a selection like it used to be unfortunately, so this news doesn’t surprise me.

 

[Bad News Booty]

The irony is they’ll probably keep vinyl records

 

[Butters]

Best Buy has already started this, physical media is dead sadly.

 

[Cwalker]

Physical media as a whole is dying.

Music, games, etc are all going away.

And it sucks because you could buy something from the App Store and and it can be gone a few months later

 

[Bobby Barrows]

Yeah at the very least Physical media was a proof of ownership and if the powers that be decided to arbitrarily make it unavailable all over the internet, you at least still had it.

 

[Apoho Creed]

Theirs something about owning your favorite Movie and TV Show to me and to hear this News it's no shock but it still sad to hear. Now all you give me your Physical Media so I can take care of them.

 

[Butters]

At least on most digital stores if you buy it and they remove it you can still download it going forward. I have a few movies and games you cant buy anymore but i still have it available

 

[Deezy]

So we just going to lose the ability to actually own stuff.......be at the online will of corporate stooges......not too mention the fact that this means stores are going to be meaningless and alot of people losing their jobs.

Who would've thought Wall-E was the movie that predicted the future right.

 

[Butters]

I doubt many people really purchase this stuff anyway. Any time a movie comes out now the first thing people ask is, "where is it streaming?" they don't want to buy it. even with video games more and more people are just using xbox game pass instead of buying games.

Obviously, there's still gonna be the die hards(i still purchase movies/tv shows/games) but I don't think it's a huge travesty or anything that it's going this way.

 

[Bad News Booty]

Literally the only media that holds value now is Vinyl records it’s crazy how expensive they are

 

[Jimmy King]

I still buy physical copies of movies online through Amazon or Target online. I’ve been looking at places like eBay as well since my store has less and less of a movie selection these days.

 

[Butters]

I basically stopped buying physical when FOX stopped putting their comedies on blurays. my physical collection of Always Sunny seasons was jank as hell. Seasons 1-3 I think it was were on DVD then it went to bluray for a few seasons and then back to DVD.

Another movie that wasn't really popular that I liked was called The Sun is Also a Star and it was only released on DVD but you could buy it digitally in HD.

 

[Deadd2009]

Target Responds to Reports It's Abandoning Physical Media, Says It Will Keep Offering 'Select DVDs' in Stores - IGN

Target has officially responded to a recent report that it's planning to stop selling physical media, stating that it will continue to sell physical media both online and in-stores, but is "transitioning" to limit the number of copies sold in-stores.

www.ign.com