What! VHS tapes still exist?

So, Wal-Mart and Target are going to stop carrying VHS tapes? This is a total surprise to me. I thought they stopped carrying them years ago!

Circuit City and Best Buy dropped them in 2002 and 2003, but Wal-Mart and Target have been holding on. But now, they are planning on only carrying them for new releases and kids' videos. Now that DVD players are in some 75% of US households, it is about time. The only reason I even have a VCR is to play old 1990's recordings of the Headbanger's Ball and My So-Called Life. The last actual movie I bought on VHS was Speed. You know, from 1994?

Since Wal-Mart is responsible for 1/3 of home video sales, I can now rest assured that VHS tapes will die the death I presumed it already had.

NOTE: Strangely, The two VHS tapes I have with my DVD archive are the aforementioned Speed and my Allsop VCR Cleaner. My VCR is practically moth-balled, but just in case I keep VCR Cleaners around.