HMV in trouble again.

[gothic_hobbit]

I miss Tower Records.

 

[One]

Any company that enters into the stockmarket has to grow or it is destined to fail. Large companies have to grow year on year, this is not possible so at some point every big company (google, facebook, apple) etc etc will either cease to exist or get so small it's like your neighbourhood butcher, of course they will be free to grow again but it will take hits again and again.

 

[gothic_hobbit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20708295

HMV are finished surely ?

 

[yhack]

Let's hope so.

 

[Janesy B]

Let's hope so.

Why would you hope so?

 

[Castiel]

Hold on, does that article not state that HMV are on target to return to profit?

Doomsayers!!!

E: then again I just read the later one and it seems not!!!

 

[yhack]

Why would you hope so?

It is overpriced, you can buy stuff for much cheaper online.

 

[Cleeecooo]

Why would you hope so?

Waste of retail space IMO


Open a Starbucks I say!

 

[arknor]

Waste of retail space IMO


Open a Starbucks I say!

so people can get stale coffee

 

[Bennie-Mac]

It is overpriced, you can buy stuff for much cheaper online.

Yeah just right, to hell with the thousands of employees, I hope they all are made jobless because I am so insulted that I can buy DVDs for cheaper online from tax evading online merchants who treat their employees like turd. How dare they exist in a cutthroat sector!

 

[MissChief]

I was in HMV in the local shopping centre today and I have to say, it was pretty busy. 20-30 people in the queue pretty much the whole time I was in there. Same for the local GAME shop too.

 

[arknor]

I was in HMV in the local shopping centre today and I have to say, it was pretty busy. 20-30 people in the queue pretty much the whole time I was in there. Same for the local GAME shop too.

Then it's a pity they cant only open for 30days of the year

 

[Name]

I was in HMV in the local shopping centre today and I have to say, it was pretty busy. 20-30 people in the queue pretty much the whole time I was in there. Same for the local GAME shop too.

Its 3 days before Christmas.

 

[frosty03]

i dont have sympathy for them, they are a bunch of complacent idiots. Prices too high, and it wasnt that they didnt know they were not making money, but rather the contempt that held the consumer in not even trying to cut prices to encourage buyers.

Then you have the British Phonographic Industry going on fishing expeditions aka speculative invoicing.

They wont be missed. And to top it off, i'm a HMV shareholder!!!

 

[Jono8]

No one obviously wants 1000's of people to lose their jobs, but why, as a consumer, would you buy a blu ray in HMV for say £16 when you can order it online for £12?

Everytime i go in to HMV and see something i might like, i check if it is cheaper online first and normally it is, by at least 20% normally more. So i just order it on my phone instead.

Times are changing.

 

[Nitefly]

No one obviously wants 1000's of people to lose their jobs, but why, as a consumer, would you buy a blu ray in HMV for say £16 when you can order it online for £12?

Everytime i go in to HMV and see something i might like, i check if it is cheaper online first and normally it is, by at least 20% normally more. So i just order it on my phone instead.

Times are changing.

Because I want it now.

 

[Jono8]

Because I want it now.

I can usually wait two days

I have never wanted a film or CD so much that i couldnt wait a few days for it.

 

[Nitefly]

I can usually wait two days

I have never wanted a film or CD so much that i couldnt wait a few days for it.

I have. £2-4 is nothing really, providing you don't have the same attitude with everything you buy!

 

[Jono8]

I have. £2-4 is nothing really, providing you don't have the same attitude with everything you buy!

Meh, every little helps and it all adds up in the long run. Sometimes the price differences are even larger as well.

 

[Cleeecooo]

so people can get stale coffee

No, so people can get Christmas themed stale coffee