In message , at 13:30:58 on Fri, 11 Jan
2013, bert remarked:And into receivership...
Same trend has done for them like it did for Woolworths (a large part of whose business was the CD/DVD retail).
The former M&S shop here is now Primark.
The new M&S shop, which only opened a fairly small number of years ago (about 4 according to Wiki), has already had a refurb. Yet a number of their windows have already been cracked for years! Makes them look tatty. Then go inside and look at their goods on sale...
My father worked for them 20+ years ago they never had sales and never advertised. How things change.
Another store I used....
I am. I still buy plenty of CDs and prefer them over downloads.
It doubles their (rent/rates) costs
Ok, but was it a prime site?
tim
I have no way of playing downloads (except on my computer which isn't practical in the living room - or the car!)
tim
whisky-dave, any chance you can fix your quoting?
The lines you quoted in your previous post originally amounted to just
29 but, with the way you insert blank lines all the way through, you expanded them to 63.
It seems - fashion aside - with clothes (and more markedly shoes) we've followed the disposable culture route. Buy cheap, when worn out, buy again.
Move to a prime location means paying a higher rent, there is more footfall but it has to be paid for, by appealing to non-specialist customers, so competing with every other shop. And loosing the specialist market. cf Maplin (anyone want to bet how long before they go?)
In message , at 12:39:36 on Tue, 15 Jan
2013, djc remarked:Pundits saying one of the main reasons for HMV's demise is too-high shop rental agreements they couldn't get out of.
They aren't in prime locations, generally.
Your CD player(s) doesn't cope with CDR/CDRWs then?
Most of mine do, but I still prefer the original.
Not sure. How do you tell?
On most high streets it used to be how far it was from Marks and Spencer.
Prime sites were usually taken up the larger dept and chain stores with long frontages Marks, Woolworths, BHS plus maybe a local Dept Store. Chains such as Lilly and Skinner, Dolcis, Millets with smaller frontages often took secondary sites while still on the High St.
michael adams
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I hate this. I try to buy stuff that lasts.
no chance. He's probably using google groups and a Macintosh
Apple seem to be doing well haven't they the highest sales per unit area for floor space of any retail store.
Google groups on a PC running W7 using firefox if yuo really want to know. Evidencde that I'm going to do something really nasty in my next life I assume.
But at home I use a Mac.
floor space of any retail store.
Though Apple stores tend to be carefully located not on the High Street
- the two I know are within what many call malls.
It works out more expensive in the long run, which is why it will reverse again.
Im tending wherever possible to make things last as long as possible, and buy what lasts.
I went into my computer man yesterday. 250 quid to upgrade this machine to get any significant performance increase, yet its 4 years old already. And only cost me 250 in the first place.
Desktops are reaching the end of moores law it seems. Or CPUs are.
These days I only replace what will cost more in future to repair/maintain/feed with power/fuel than what the new item costs..and the new item is costed on a 10-20 year life..
I am not interested on wasting a weeks food on something that is dead ion 9 months.
And stupid, too, trying for the "cool" market. Woman where I used to work said her daughters wouldn't be seen dead shopping at M&S.
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