HMV, under pressure from the City to rebuild collapsing sales, last week unveiled a bold concept store featuring a wider range of entertainment products, smoothie bars and internet terminals designed to lure shoppers back to the high street and encourage them to spend more. If successful, it will be rolled out nationwide.
errorgorilla reads the HMV music retailer its last rites:
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Can I stick my neck out? It won’t be rolled out nationwide because it won’t work. Sorry guys but it’s over. You’ve jumped the shark and now all that’s left is your lingering demise. There are those for whom Jamie Cullum is rather good and they’ll buy his latest pap at Tesco, then there are those who want to have the latest from Rilo Kiley on their iPod and they’ll download it for nothing and there are those who want that rare Delia Derbyshire reissue on vinyl and will use their favourite niche retailer who thrives giving the customers what they want. No amount of laminate flooring and fruit smoothies will erase the memories of those years you dominated and charged us extortionate prices.
Fuck yeah.