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Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 18 Jan, 2013 20.53
by DVB Cornwall
Disk inlay card.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 18 Jan, 2013 22.16
by WillPS
DVB Cornwall wrote:Disk inlay card.
*disc
And in any case, it doesn't really prove anything. The common issue seems to be that the price is too high rather than the price is unclear. Under the circumstances you've described I'd simply take the one marked £4 and expect to pay that price regardless of which was correct.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 18 Jan, 2013 22.20
by Sput
DVB Cornwall wrote:Disk inlay card.
Re-write.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Fri 18 Jan, 2013 22.49
by JAS84
Yeah, having free wifi wouldn't go amiss either, that would encourage PSP, Vita, DS and 3DS owners to go there, as well as the obvious techies with their laptops and iPads.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 12.08
by Pete
indeed, Blockbuster should have bought LoveFilm or Netflix whilst they were in their infancy and therefore cheap.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 12.16
by WillPS
Blockbuster had online rentals before Lovefilm in the UK, it's an often forgotten fact.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 12.23
by Philip
Pete wrote:indeed, Blockbuster should have bought LoveFilm or Netflix whilst they were in their infancy and therefore cheap.
2000: Blockbuster declines several offers to purchase Netflix for a mere $50 million. Instead, the company inks a 20-year deal to deliver on-demand movies with Enron Broadband Services, a subsidiary of energy trading giant Enron.
2001: Enron files for bankruptcy amid accounting scandal.
From
http://www.fastcompany.com/1690654/bloc ... de-decline
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 14.15
by Sput
I'll always have a grudge against Blockbuster for making it impossible for me to sign up during my first year of uni, despite my attempts to give them money. Balls to them, I say.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 19.40
by scottishtv
Well put! There is (soon to be was) one close to my Halls of Residence at uni, but any first year student without household bills in their own name are turned away from that Blockbuster. An innovative business would have accepted other forms of ID and maybe a small deposit to be returned after an initial number of rentals or something... but they didn't.
A small independent place across the road took more of a punt on the huge student population of the area, and is still trading well by all accounts. I have a friend that still rents DVDs from there. She's afraid of technology, no smartphone etc.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 21.30
by Pete
I've just realised. All three of the companies in Lobster's opening post have now gone.
Re: High Street chain collapse sweepstake
Posted: Sat 19 Jan, 2013 21.36
by Critique
Pete wrote:I've just realised. All three of the companies in Lobster's opening post have now gone.
Little Chef is still hanging on, isn't it?