HMV Finally closing down for good?

estebanrey said:
They sell food (mainly), until someone can come up with an alternative solution that can beat Tesco on price or service it's unlikely they'll ever struggle.

But on a side note, as I mention earlier I laugh when people mention Tesco forgetting that whilst they may be a big company, the market they compete in is one of the most competitive out there. They are as far removed from being a Monopoly in an sense of the word as you can be.

Compare that though to say washing machine power, where there are only two major players in the market. Yet people almost always use Tesco as an example of a company that is trying to dominate it's market.
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Asda beat Tesco on price most of the time in my experience, plus tesco is almost retardidly opening more stores, in a small town near me they have opened an express and now looking for permission to build a normal tesco 500 yards away I mean WTF
 
LOL, disgruntled IT staff play with their Twitter feed before being fired...

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GAC said:
honestly vern the two things that would need sorting are the business rates that are charged on the high street and also the whole internet tax shenanigans.

even if they only sorted the rates that would save many shops who are just about breaking even.
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It's certainly interesting that the rating reval has been postponed until 2017 - distribution of liability is set according to the rental market as it was more or less pre-recession currently. I think many landlords are willing to have tenants paying zero rent at the moment providing they cover liability for rates on vacant units.
 
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Hefner said:
In the mid 90's growing up in the depths of the Welsh countryside, if you wanted something non-chart based, a 70 mile round trip would be needed to visit the nearest Our Price; but not always finding what you wanted

Further trips might be necessary to find that semi elusive album or VHS, so a 140 mile round trip to Birmingham HMV might have been in order
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Why didn't you just get Our Price to order it in?
 
GJM said:
I'm starting to get slightly worried about this tbh.

Soon the only method of obtaining music / films / games will be online, which is all well and good. However for those of us with poor net connection out in the sticks, where exactly can I obtain the latest games or large downloads? :confused:
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Amazon.
 
[TW]Fox;23571483 said:
Presumably once they have driven everyone else out of business, Part 2 of the Amazon business plan is to raise all the prices so they can actually have a go at making some money? :D
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And presumably someone else will then come along to undercut them and the whole sorry saga continues to cycle onwards into oblivion?
 
Perhaps someone could debunk this one for me, I heard it over 10 years ago around the time Napster were making headlines - that "CD's have always been overpriced (costing around £1 to make) and that as such selling them has always been a terrible business model." I have always been hesitant to swallow that and suspect there's more to it, such as the £1 being a manufacturing cost and nothing to do with the artists and recording companies who spend inordinate amounts in recording it in the first place and expecting a return.
 
Robosapien said:
It's certainly interesting that the rating reval has been postponed until 2017 - distribution of liability is set according to the rental market as it was more or less pre-recession currently. I think many landlords are willing to have tenants paying zero rent at the moment providing they cover liability for rates on vacant units.
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im guessing they have off set it till then with the same thinking as council owned properties and upping the rent year on year, so they get the shortfall from the year before. and with the deficit they will be hoping for the extra rates to help steady the ship, while not thinking its going to kill many small stores (and the odd national chain) along the way.
 
I don't think they will learn. I went in to the Guildford store last Saturday and again just ended up laughing at the prices and not buying anything.

They had, as a few examples of films i want:
The Dicatator triple play Blu ray priced at £22.99...
Ice Age 4 Blu ray prices at £21.99..
The Dark Knight Rises Blu Ray at £19.99


Now, lets have a quick look on the internet (these might not even be the cheapest, this is just from one very quick scan on google):

http://direct.asda.com/The-Dictator---Triple-Play---Blu-Ray/003759700,default,pd.html
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/4-/22150941/-/Product.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Knight-Rises-Blu-ray-Region/dp/B004Q9T6CO

All delivered to your door for free....If you buy all three thats £26 saved.
 
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I suppose HMV are trying to kick the dust up to 'attempt' to go out of administration. They have to make something off of it to once again get back. I doubt it.
 
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