West_Winger
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HMV goes into administration for second time in six years
Hopefully a buyer can be found and the jobs saved.
Hopefully a buyer can be found and the jobs saved.
HMV goes into administration for the second time in 6 years
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Scotty 1978
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Always found them fairly expensive, the likes of Amazon, Spotify are blowing them out of the water, even the supermarkets are cheaper than HMV.
Scotty 1978
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Can’t remember the last time I bought a dvd/cd
dangermows
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joemcdokes
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It’ll be all that vinyl they have that is a niche market knacking the cash flow.
Freddie the Greek
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I still dee
JAZZMANB
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Its a shrinking market but still a market .Like Fat mike said the High st needs protecting .
So do i but online cos i can't get what i want in there .
glen
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Surely they must do other products though? Theres no way they could survive doing cd's and dvd's only. They'd go the way of Blockbusters
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Jesus, though their business plan has left a lot to be desired. They needed to move away from physical stuff. Still rental and car parking charges ain’t helping the high street at all. I never go in ours.
I have but Amazon is cheaper, they are too expensive.
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Discopants91
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Can't think of a streaming service that covers nearly every film the way Spotify does for music.
Boz33
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Aye ya right, it's fuck all to do with brexit
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Yep, my mam has chucked her CD player for amazon music. She loves it.
joemcdokes
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You can listen to millions of tracks for nothing, never mind paying for it.
errant
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I wandered into HMV in newcastle yesterday, first time in a very long time and was amazed that they had shelves heaving with dvds & bluerays... ironically the vinyl department seemed to the busiest as if i'd been transported back to the mid-80s...
everything to do with online streaming of audio & video... netflix, spoty, apple music, amazon prime et al...
He would say it needs protecting, mainly to provide longevity to his own interests.
I’m unsure if the high street does have a future, certainly in the medium term as online shopping is far easier and the likes of Amazon can deliver to your door within a day.
What I would caveat to that statement is that in the UK, the high street has not reacted well to the shift away from browsing shops and footfall decline. I’ve said it before, other cultures open until late on an evening and the entire local economy benefits as people go shopping, have a site to eat and maybe a drink too. In the modern working world of Monday Nine to Five, the shops are open when people are at work and closed when people are not.
It isAye ya right, it's fuck all to do with brexit
You not noticed loads of f***ing shops closing down lately?
It’s all to do with consumer confidence, you don’t go out and buy a load of CDs when you don’t know if you’ll be able to pay the mortgage in 3 months time.
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