Blockbusters should have gone under years ago. No idea how they keep going - mind you on the 2 or 3 occasions I've stepped in in the last 5 years they've been quite busy.
Who can be faffed with video rental in 2013, seriously?!
High Street chain collapse sweepstake
I knew a surprising number of people who went there from time to time for video games. I have no idea how much this cost, but I suppose there's some rationale for renting a game you'd pretty much immediately trade-in anyway.
Somehow, we have a Blockbusters locally - I don't know why it's still open because it's always empty and the staff really couldn't give a crap. It's obviously not been done up in any way since it opened (looks early to mid 90s to me) and everything is pretty expensive.WillPS wrote:Blockbusters should have gone under years ago. No idea how they keep going - mind you on the 2 or 3 occasions I've stepped in in the last 5 years they've been quite busy.
Who can be faffed with video rental in 2013, seriously?!
Too soon.
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DVB Cornwall
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HMV ...
Discovered one reason why the company got into this state, pricing. I know things are bad, but why should the same album be onsale at FOUR different prices within the same store, three on the same rack.
In Truro's store this morning
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, Same edition, I checked the barcodes, was either £4, £5, £7 in the same rack, and under the artist filed section £8. The £4 and £5 copies blue crossed. Madness.
Discovered one reason why the company got into this state, pricing. I know things are bad, but why should the same album be onsale at FOUR different prices within the same store, three on the same rack.
In Truro's store this morning
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, Same edition, I checked the barcodes, was either £4, £5, £7 in the same rack, and under the artist filed section £8. The £4 and £5 copies blue crossed. Madness.
I suspect that has very little to do with their downfall. It's not unheard of for a record shop to carry 3 or 4 different versions of the same album, either (which may look exactly the same and/or actually have the same track listing).DVB Cornwall wrote:HMV ...
Discovered one reason why the company got into this state, pricing. I know things are bad, but why should the same album be onsale at FOUR different prices within the same store, three on the same rack.
In Truro's store this morning
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, Same edition, I checked the barcodes, was either £4, £5, £7 in the same rack, and under the artist filed section £8. The £4 and £5 copies blue crossed. Madness.
The Blue Cross discount is applied manually at the till, which leads me to suspect they've just instructed managers to use as many blue crosses as they see fit so long as they avoid chart stock. Fopp had nowhere near as much as HMV also.
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DVB Cornwall
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Re-read. Identical versions, same on disk unique barcode on each.