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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youRemember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Huge yellow posters all over the place, saying "everything must go", and "Up to 75% off", so I left the wife in Starbucks and headed over with a bunch of twenty pound notes.
It was only when I got to the music section, (both CD and vinyl) that I realised that absolutely none of it was reduced at all. The only things I could find that were marked down were DVD boxed sets of TV series no one has ever heard of.
An absolute take on, and I guess that's why they're going down the pan...
I feel for the staff though, I am surprised they remained so upbeat despite the pending end
Me, "what advantage is having an Android operating system over a standard smart tele?"
Bloke, "Its Android, innit. Like in your phone".
Me, "I have an iPhone, and the picture on the tele isn't blowing me away to be honest, why is it so bad?"
Bloke, "BBC innit".
I was in the Huddersfield one a while back, and the staff were brazenly, and loudly, celebrating "Michael Bolton" day over the store sound system.
I was in agony.
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youHMV aren’t going down the pan. They’ve restructured and changed their business model, got rid of the excessive number of shops (down from three to one in Glasgow for example) - the ones they’re closing now are at the end of the process, which started several years ago.
That doesn’t really excuse bogus claims for big reductions when you might find one album in the shop discounted that much - probably Gary Glitter’s Greatest Hits or something...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's having a crap website and unrealistic prices that's seen them collapse imo
They don't seem to cover all things for all people, but they have lots of cult, horror and world cinema stuff which is perfect for me. I didn't really look at their CDs.
HMV has drastically changed their pricing policy - from being even more expensive than Virgin used to be, they're now only slightly more expensive than online for a lot of things, and have regular sales on different lines. In the last few years I've spent hundreds in there - I go in about once a month, and very rarely buy anything at full price, but I never leave without anything either. It's always mobbed, I'm almost never the first in the checkout queue despite the large number of tills. They are doing well now - they very nearly went under, but the combination of being the last one standing of the big chains and then the change in approach seems to have worked.
If Maplins could reinvent themselves in the same sort of way they'd pull through I think.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Amazed that anyone who has worked in a shop for more than ten minutes would ask it.