Which retail store going be next to go ??

Surely ToysRus. All of that can be bought from online, mostly cheaper. Plus when I went in there at Christmas for some Hot Wheels for my Nephew, they had a couple of packs, but instead a whole section full of their own brand which looked awful quality wise.
 
Staples on the retail store side of things will disappear, Closing stores right now and concentrating on their online sales. (adapt or die I think people here call it? lol)

As others have mentioned, I'd say Thorntons, Maplin and Possibly Waterstones. I'm guessing all will survive but just not as we know them. Thorntons chocolates are sold in all the supermarkets etc anyway, So they may close the stores but I'd imagine you will still be able to buy their products.

Maplin are fairly established online if a little pricey at times, As are Waterstones.
 
I`d be disappointed to see Maplins go, the one in Swindon is pretty good. I would n't buy computer bits from there but it's handy for components, cable braiding, micro-switches etc.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
Waterstones are part of Amazon though, and my guess would be that they survive a good while yet. For every person i hear bigging the kindle up, i hear as many saying "you can't beat a good paperback in your hand".
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No they're not, they did a deal with Amazon to sell kindles, seems like a really bad one sided deal but they're not part of Amazon.

Maplin just opened a new store in Woking, don't imagine they can be doing that badly.

Thorntons stores maybe, but they have a wide range of products sold in other shops as well which I imagine as a guess is where their core income comes from, and the profit margin on that kind of chocolate is quite high I think. But one of the more likely ones on this thread I would have thought.
 
Out of those suggested i'd plum for Thortons, Staples and Optical express. I can't believe they have all survived this long tbh.
Staples is always desolate when I have been in there and such a big shop.
 
peige said:
Out of those suggested i'd plum for Thortons, Staples and Optical express. I can't believe they have all survived this long tbh.
Staples is always desolate when I have been in there and such a big shop.
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Staples pricing is LOL. Went looking for a paper shredder yesterday - double the price for the same one in Argos or Tesco. Needless to say they didn't get my custom.
 
the thing is it depends who you are. if your a out of town chain company, like what the majority of dixons own you should be fine for a couple more years especially with your main bricks and mortar competition (comet) going bump.

but on a whole dsgi has major issues in there managerial side as they keep making idiotic investments to get a larger percent of the european market. a few years ago they bought out pc city in spain, it was losing money then god only knows what its doing now.

same with that french online retailer they picked up and now had to write off.

i can see all the high street stores being closed down totally within a year with staff and stock moved to the nearest retail park store. anywhere that they have a pcworld and currys on the same park they will close the pcworld's and carryon with the currys pcworld rebranding.

long term i can see currys going bump if they dont close a lot of stores, as they just have too many dotted around. within half an hour of me there are about a dozen dsg owned stores. they could lose half of them and no one would notice.

as for other companys, thorntons will either go bust or restructure and just have a few large stores in city centers and do mail order from them.

whsmiths will probably end up closing a few stores to streamline and save money but i have a feeling they will end up slowly dying over the next 10 years with the rise of paperless reading.

waterstones will be gone or end up bought up by amazon and turned in to some sort of amazon pick up center.

jd sports will slowly decline on the high st and end up with a few stores dotted about.

got a feeling a lot of the chain stores will end up pulling from the majority of smaller towns and just have flagship stores in city centers and use them as pr more than a profit source. as they will end up selling more online.

hopefully smaller towns will drop the business rates through the floor as they are extremely overpriced as well as the rents which are just a joke right now, if this happens i can see a lot of small independents setting up and making a go of it, sure they wont be making millions but should be able to make a living as well as reinvigorate the high street a bit.
 
Is everyone forgetting GAME, they had serious issues before christmas and a number of stores have closed in a bid to keep them afloat
 
Ðudeth said:
Is everyone forgetting GAME, they had serious issues before christmas and a number of stores have closed in a bid to keep them afloat
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I won't touch game with someone else's bargepole. Quite how nobody realised they had an unsustainable business model until that late confounds me!
 
Thorntons is a good shout.
I reckon book shops like smiths will be dying out, I go to smiths to buy magazines and thats it.

They don't sell many good, classic books or do buybacks. And they're missing out massively by not stocking or having ordering facilities for academic books, sheet music etc.
They kind of deserve to go under truth be told for not operating like a traditional bookseller should.

They're treating it more like places like HMV did, stock the latest stuff and hope people buy it - which will never work today because the "mainstream" market is going digital.
Had they offered services that traditional shops do, they might be ok.

I buy a lot of music on vinyl and tape still, along with the obligatory CD's, the guy I buy from, his business is booming! Because he found a segment who actually still buy hard copies.
 
I can't see Game's fortunes getting much better, there's still 3 Game stores in Nottingham, one down-sized but it's still ridiculous.
 
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