Well this should be a shot in the arm for other media retailers tbh.

 

It might be, but in a lot of those small and medium-sized towns, there aren't any other "media retailers", and taking the major chain store out of all those town centres is going to leave a huge number of holes that may never be filled.

 

I love the internet and do buy a fair amount on-line, but it does sadden me to think that the doomsayers who said that the 'net and the out of town supermarkets will kill the traditional town centres are being proved right.

 

It might be, but in a lot of those small and medium-sized towns, there aren't any other "media retailers", and taking the major chain store out of all those town centres is going to leave a huge number of holes that may never be filled.

 

I love the internet and do buy a fair amount on-line, but it does sadden me to think that the doomsayers who said that the 'net and the out of town supermarkets will kill the traditional town centres are being proved right.

 

The High St is living in the past and needs to adapt or die, we are in the digital / new media age and no longer will consumers tolerate paying higher prices in the High St than they can pay online and rightly so, stores had it easy now they face a big threat from the net and can't adapt as they are still living in the backwards old practices of the 60's and 70's where they think they can just mug off the consumer and charge what they want

 

Long live the power of the net :D

 

The High St in 10 years time will be purely showrooms for products with digital terminals where you can order the product online and have it delivered and rightly so

It might be, but in a lot of those small and medium-sized towns, there aren't any other "media retailers", and taking the major chain store out of all those town centres is going to leave a huge number of holes that may never be filled.

 

I love the internet and do buy a fair amount on-line, but it does sadden me to think that the doomsayers who said that the 'net and the out of town supermarkets will kill the traditional town centres are being proved right.

 

Even the out of town companies are rip off merchants, even more so in many cases

 

I bought a laptop not long ago and Pc World (Purley Way) were charging £1400 give or take £3 yet I bought it from eBuyer.com for £86 cheaper than what PC World charge, what justification is there for PC World to be charging that sort of fukkin money ? NONE, they are fleecing us mate, no wonder DSG is in such a fukkin mess given their prices so yeah any company that can't compete or won't compete with the net on price DESERVES to go bust, hope PC World/Currys Digital is the next Woolies ;)

Edited December 23, 200816 yr by B.A Baracus

The High St is living in the past and needs to adapt or die, we are in the digital / new media age and no longer will consumers tolerate paying higher prices in the High St than they can pay online and rightly so, stores had it easy now they face a big threat from the net and can't adapt as they are still living in the backwards old practices of the 60's and 70's where they think they can just mug off the consumer and charge what they want

 

Long live the power of the net :D

 

The High St in 10 years time will be purely showrooms for products with digital terminals where you can order the product online and have it delivered and rightly so

 

 

Not entirely true. After all it's Woolies who have closed whilst HMV still survived. And Woolies was where you could often find relatively new albums on their shelves for £3.99, whilst HMV still go around happily charging £16.99 for a 10-track CD.

If pricing were the issue, Woolies wouldn't have struggled too much.

Not entirely true. After all it's Woolies who have closed whilst HMV still survived. And Woolies was where you could often find relatively new albums on their shelves for £3.99, whilst HMV still go around happily charging £16.99 for a 10-track CD.

If pricing were the issue, Woolies wouldn't have struggled too much.

 

Musically Woolies was alright, prices were reasonable too but music only made up a small amount of what they sold, they sold toys, household goods, television sets and so on and alas aside from the music side of things what they sold was absolute junk, low quality tat and also Woolworths were pitched at a market that in general have low levels of income, single mums, pensiionsers, chavs and so on, it was a very downmarket store so their business model was not sustainable, low priced stuff aimed at low income people, in times of economic hardship its the poorest that suffer the most

 

 

Often the entertainment section was a it bit tatty too. Broken cases, missing inserts, scratched discs. And if you did find say an album you liked it sometimes turned out to be a budget version with crappy live tracks or rerecorded stuff instead of the real thing. HMV always guarantees a good quality product, and better service than virgin/zavvi although since the takeover zavvi's service has been improving whilst HMV's seems to have been hit. All academic anyway as come next year only HMV will remain. And whilst I'm on the subject I think WHSmith's will be gone by the end of next year too.