Failure to adapt and survive

Before the likes of Amazon ever entered the music retail market, HMV had the infrastructure and set-up to establish themselves in online retail - they didn't and hence have been left wanting

Posted By: inutero on January 15th 2013 at 08:27:44

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Congratulations to all the student types whose theft of music has contributed to the (NCFC) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jan 15, 08:09:04
- All the same warning signs at Portman Road.......... (NCFC) - usacanary, Jan 15, 15:36:57
- Cock (n/m) (NCFC) - yellowman, Jan 15, 11:48:34
- 'Contributed' being the operative word (NCFC) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jan 15, 11:31:01
  - I imagine this is the same story the directors of HMV will be telling themselves (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 11:50:14
- To be fair, HMV stung the average public enough times. A band's debut would be ?4.99 (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:18:07
  - Yup. Very sad for their staff though, until they are officially unemployed, at which point (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 10:39:47
    - I think the gov will try and keep it all going (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:46:34
      - Good article about the rise and fall of HMV (NCFC) - Hertz van Rental, Jan 15, 10:51:31
- F**k HMV (NCFC) - sixthgo, Jan 15, 09:57:49
  - haven't HMV been on the brink for ages? (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 10:22:32
    - You are assuming that all generations (NCFC) - sixthgo, Jan 15, 11:06:29
    - or Amazon vouchers. Amazon keep a lot of the independents afloat (n/m) (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:25:16
- The only ones to blame are HMV. They are not a charity. (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Jan 15, 09:31:25
- Harsh, that's only one of a number of reasons they've gone tits up! (n/m) (NCFC) - Kirrie, Jan 15, 09:24:36
- the reason I stopped buying things in HMV (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 15, 09:12:17
- High Street stores could be more competitive if they didn't super heat their shops (NCFC) - Ben, Jan 15, 09:08:17
- thanks pal (n/m) (NCFC) - Charles21, Jan 15, 09:04:40
- Or the bloke who used to run Jessop's, who now happens to be in charge of HMV! (n/m) (NCFC) - bellamys_knee, Jan 15, 09:00:26
- no worries (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 08:42:45
- Nonsense. Business is dog eat dog... nobody buys CD's the quality is shit compared to FLAC (NCFC) - ChengdeCanary, Jan 15, 08:41:01
  - I buy Cds. Haven't a clue what FLAC is and always hated vinyl. (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:24:17
- HMV are still (n/m) (NCFC) - Duck, Jan 15, 08:30:54
  - ...open for business but no longer accepting gift vouchers (NCFC) - Duck, Jan 15, 08:31:36
    - If I had a voucher I would go in and steal up to the value in goods (NCFC) - Ben, Jan 15, 10:23:43
    - Which is theft in it's purest form surely? (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:23:04
- Failure to adapt and survive (NCFC) - inutero, Jan 15, 08:27:44
  - They needed to set up a tax-dodging scheme (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:29:13
    - the high street deserves to die imo (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 08:43:46
      - Don't think they had CDs then (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:46:36
- Seriously? Nothing to do with Amazon? (NCFC) - 51eve, Jan 15, 08:18:01
  - you want to blame someone, blame Tescos (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 15, 08:21:21
    - And iTunes and Spotify (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 08:25:17
      - Spotify is brill, kind of like the old listening booths in record shops. (NCFC) - CB41, Jan 15, 10:27:08
      - yes, iTunes in particular (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Jan 15, 09:39:14
        
        My 14-year-old daughter wouldn't even *think* of buying a CD (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 09:43:30
        
        When I was 14, a gig would be about ?6 at somewhere like the O2 venues (NCFC) - pants, Jan 15, 10:37:34
        
        Well, yes, but I meant she just downloads from iTunes (n/m) (NCFC) - duke of york, Jan 15, 10:52:37
        
        lol (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Jan 15, 10:55:48
      - and steve morison (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Jan 15, 09:35:37
- I'm nearly as wound up as HMV (n/m) (NCFC) - lurd, Jan 15, 08:11:12

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