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Over the last week in the UK, the last national chain of music shops has gone into administration, the only national chain of camera shops has gone into administration, and the only national chain of DVD rental shops has gone into administration. Obviously the profits from each of these three businesses
wasn't sufficient to pay the rent on the shops and pay staff. So, logically, combining these three businesses into one will spread these overheads and allow these venerable bricks-and-mortar chains to continue.
Damn! - just realised I forgot about Comet.
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Perhaps the better approach would be to have a generalised shopping experience where all sorts of retail purchasables are available under one roof. |
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Actually, maybe the thing is that super/hyper-markets need to rejig their branding to run along the lines of "Just like amazon but doesn't make your eyes ache if you stay in it for more than 40 minutes" |
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//Perhaps the better approach would be to have a generalised shopping experience where all sorts of retail purchasables are available under one roof.// Interestingly, this is what John Lewis has been doing, rather sucessfully for the last 4 years or so. |
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[hippo] - it's probably less than topical today, but if you included pick-a-mix in your proposal, you might be able to cover the gap left behind by Woolworths as well. |
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As an American I find it vaguely foreboding that
'administration' is UK for 'bankruptcy.' |
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Now you mention it, that is a bit euphemistic. |
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Great idea hippo, unfortunately I have no need for
any of these. If they were relying on guys like me for
business, they would still as you say "go into
administration". |
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Sorry, but "administration" is not the same as
bankruptcy. Administration is a term used to refer to
the appointment of a professional firm that specialises
in rationalisation and rescue of companies that are in
financial trouble. |
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The next stage is Receivership, which is appointment
of a company to collect the debts owing to a company,
followed by disbursement of monies collected, the the
company's creditors. |
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The final stage is Liquidation, which is the selloff of
stock and assets of a company. |
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Bankruptcy is a term more commonly applied to
personal financial insolvency, rather than corporate
insolvency. |
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You liquidated a roo. bad man |
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Its really too bad you guys don't have Walmart.
Youre missing out! |
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Someone should start a chain of high street shops specialising in the sale of insolvent high street shops. |
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Meet [calum], professional parallax comedian. |
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I'm not sure it is obvious that merging those businesses together would provide enough profit to cover overheads. Renting DVDs is a declining business because people can rent films via cable or illegally download them. I'm not sure about CD selling, but Amazon MP3 market and iTunes certainly are helping the business boom. As for selling cameras, there is no lack of chains offering them. [-] |
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Perhaps we simply need a "replace what's been lost" list that people could add to. |
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Move into the CBD (High Street) stores that have been
vacated recently. There's a good chance they have fast
internet so you can buy everything online and thereby
hollow out the next layer of retailers, too. |
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