Supermarket chain Sainsbury's - with stores across Gloucestershire - is to stop selling CDs and DVDs because customers have turned to streaming services instead.

The firm says they are being phased out because sales are falling, although some stores will continue to sell vinyl records. The sale of CDs has dropped significantly in the past decade.

A spokesman for Sainsbury said: "Our customers increasingly go online for entertainment, so earlier this year we took the decision to gradually phase out the sale of DVDs and CDs, so that we can dedicate extra space to food and popular products like clothing and homewares."

Old-style vinyl, which you play on a turntable, is experiencing a boom as young people discover records as nostalgia items.

Mike Lewis, of Cheltenham-based Vinyl Records, said: "It's a whole new generation of people who are buying them because it's cool, it's the 'in' thing.

"Some of the things they're buying are from the 70s like Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd that their parents and grandparents had. It's a nostalgic thing.

"They like the physical thing with a record sleeve and the artwork. CDs are great but the artwork was always reduced right down. People like the streaming services but they want a tangible item and they like seeing it going round on the turntable."

The CD was originally designed to replace the vinyl record that has seen a boom in sales in recent years - last year was the 13th consecutive year of growth of vinyl sales, in a market where 80% of music consumption is now via streaming.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says the value of vinyl sales in 2021 is expected to surpass that of CDs for the first time since the late 1980s.

Gennaro Castaldo, BPI spokesman, said: "The CD has proved exceptionally successful for nearly 40 years and remains a format of choice for many music fans who value sound quality, convenience and collectability."

"Although demand has been following a long-term trend as consumers increasingly transition to streaming, resilient demand is likely to continue for many years, enhanced by special editions and other collectible releases.

"If some retailers now see the format as less of a priority, this will create a further opportunity for others, such as independent shops and specialist chains such as HMV, to cater to the continuing demand."