Amazon will cease stocking vinyls and CDs to make room for more essential items

Online retail giant will temporarily cease stocking discretionary items, including vinyl records and CDs, to make room on its shelves for more essential items like household staples and medical supplies, Variety reports. Amazon will continue to sell whatever vinyl records and CDs are already in stock at their warehouses, once those are sold CD- and vinyl-buyers are gonna have to wait. Vinyl sales were up by 19% in 2019, accounting for a total of in $504 million in sales, the highest such number since 1988. Amazon is the largest seller of vinyl in the U.S. with a quarter of the overall market share.