Crashing Companies

[Phantom 2,469]

Boots are now charging their customers a "delivery charge" if they order goods online and collect them from a store. That'll really attract customers away from the competition, won't it!

 

It's free if you spend more than £20. There are many stores that don't even allow you to order online and have it delivered to a store, or you have to order it while you're in the store.

[Toast 14,839]

Boots are now charging their customers a "delivery charge" if they order goods online and collect them from a store. That'll really attract customers away from the competition, won't it!

 

It's free if you spend more than £20. There are many stores that don't even allow you to order online and have it delivered to a store, or you have to order it while you're in the store.

 

I know it's free if you spend over £20. That isn't the point. The point is that their direct competitors (eg Superdrug) make no such charge at all, so it's not a very good business move to introduce charges IMO.

 

I would say that ordering online and collecting in store is becoming an increasingly common system. I don't know of any other retailer that charges its customers extra for this. It doesn't cost them anything to implement it as the orders are simply added to the regular stock delivery.

[Phantom 2,469]

Boots are now charging their customers a "delivery charge" if they order goods online and collect them from a store. That'll really attract customers away from the competition, won't it!

It's free if you spend more than £20. There are many stores that don't even allow you to order online and have it delivered to a store, or you have to order it while you're in the store.

I know it's free if you spend over £20. That isn't the point. The point is that their direct competitors (eg Superdrug) make no such charge at all, so it's not a very good business move to introduce charges IMO. I would say that ordering online and collecting in store is becoming an increasingly common system. I don't know of any other retailer that charges its customers extra for this. It doesn't cost them anything to implement it as the orders are simply added to the regular stock delivery.

 

Hot Topic in the U.S. charge if you order online to have shipped to a store. The only way to avoid the charge is for one of the sales assistants to do that for you at the store itself.

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

Boots are now charging their customers a "delivery charge" if they order goods online and collect them from a store. That'll really attract customers away from the competition, won't it!

It's free if you spend more than £20. There are many stores that don't even allow you to order online and have it delivered to a store, or you have to order it while you're in the store.

I know it's free if you spend over £20. That isn't the point. The point is that their direct competitors (eg Superdrug) make no such charge at all, so it's not a very good business move to introduce charges IMO. I would say that ordering online and collecting in store is becoming an increasingly common system. I don't know of any other retailer that charges its customers extra for this. It doesn't cost them anything to implement it as the orders are simply added to the regular stock delivery.

 

Hot Topic in the U.S. charge if you order online to have shipped to a store. The only way to avoid the charge is for one of the sales assistants to do that for you at the store itself.

 

I think that customer chasing is now a thing of the past and now businesses are wanting quality not quantity. Those customers that cost them money (or don't make them very much) can go to their competitors and they will concentrate on the best customers. Customers may have to adjust their actions accordingly. I imagine free returns for online orders will not be around much longer.

[Banshees Scream 107]

Blockbuster will be forgotten thanks to Netflix and everything available on demand but it was an enjoyment for those who liked to rent.

[Phantom 2,469]

Blockbuster will be forgotten thanks to Netflix and everything available on demand but it was an enjoyment for those who liked to rent.

You can still rent, just can't go to the store and browse through the shelves like you used to. I only rented from Blockbusters a few times, they had other stuff than just videos and DVDs. I bought my "Kermit - Unpigged" t-shirt from one of their stores.

[time 7,950]

Tie Rack to close 44 remaining UK stores.

[Whitehouse 821]

This will make some of you a tad sentimental, including me. On December 20 this year owner AOL is pulling the plug on their music player Winamp after 15 years....

 

These days it's all about Itunes and Spotify. But the Winamp player was the true pioneer in the music exchange.

 

Makes me a bit sad....

 

Anyone who doesn't remember this incarnation was in diapers back then.

[Dr. Zorders 1,269]

This will make some of you a tad sentimental, including me. On December 20 this year owner AOL is pulling the plug on their music player Winamp after 15 years....

 

These days it's all about Itunes and Spotify. But the Winamp player was the true pioneer in the music exchange.

 

Makes me a bit sad....

 

Anyone who doesn't remember this incarnation was in diapers back then.

 

Wow..... yeah of course I remember that. Already just downloaded it again.

 

I actually still used it a little until fairly recently, only for a couple of useful, sound-bending add-ons. It was on my old, dying-on-its-arse computer which I used until Feb of this year but never got round to downloading a new copy on this one. And I often use VLC media player to listen to MP3s which is just as basic/primitive, if not moreso.

[the_engineer 1,405]

Rumour going around is HMV's last day of trading will be the 25th of jan 2014 they are closing alot of stores around that date and are basically saying to the landlords either give us rent free shops or we leave , looks like to me hilco uk are overseeing hmv's demise for their own profit.

 

http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/hmv-wanted-rent-free-shop-unit-says-shopping-centre-1-5766365

 

 

http://www.retail-week.com/companies/hmv/hmvs-flagship-technology-store-in-islington-set-to-close/5056078.article

 

http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/hmv-says-kettering-branch-closing-down-1-5760779

 

http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/news/local-news/nine-jobs-at-risk-as-leamington-hmv-to-close-in-january-1-5756027

[themaninblack 2,112]

That's what happens when you sign a deal with the devil venture capitalists...

[JQW 228]

Rumour going around is HMV's last day of trading will be the 25th of jan 2014 they are closing alot of stores around that date and are basically saying to the landlords either give us rent free shops or we leave , looks like to me hilco uk are overseeing hmv's demise for their own profit.

 

Oddly their Harrogate branch re-located only a few weeks ago. The new shop is roughly the same size as the old, but located in a shopping centre as opposed to on a major shopping street.

[the_engineer 1,405]

Rumour going around is HMV's last day of trading will be the 25th of jan 2014 they are closing alot of stores around that date and are basically saying to the landlords either give us rent free shops or we leave , looks like to me hilco uk are overseeing hmv's demise for their own profit.

 

Oddly their Harrogate branch re-located only a few weeks ago. The new shop is roughly the same size as the old, but located in a shopping centre as opposed to on a major shopping street.

 

They probably got a rent free agreement with another landlord.

 

another two hmv's to add to the 8 or so already closing.

 

http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/more-jobs-misery-midland-hmv-6457276

 

 

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10904211.HMV_in_Newport_to_close_in_January/

 

What is happening here is hilco wants to keep the stores running were they can get short term or long term rent free agreements so they can collect as much money as possible before the inevitable collapse . So maybe not complete closure in jan 2014 but hilco have no interest in keeping HMV going for the long term ,I give them 2 years max .

[Magere Hein 1,397]

Rumour going around is HMV's last day of trading will be the 25th of jan 2014 they are closing alot of stores around that date and are basically saying to the landlords either give us rent free shops or we leave , looks like to me hilco uk are overseeing hmv's demise for their own profit.

Oddly their Harrogate branch re-located only a few weeks ago. The new shop is roughly the same size as the old, but located in a shopping centre as opposed to on a major shopping street.

They probably got a rent free agreement with another landlord.

 

another two hmv's to add to the 8 or so already closing.

 

http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/business-news/more-jobs-misery-midland-hmv-6457276

 

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/10904211.HMV_in_Newport_to_close_in_January/

 

What is happening here is hilco wants to keep the stores running were they can get short term or long term rent free agreements so they can collect as much money as possible before the inevitable collapse . So maybe not complete closure in jan 2014 but hilco have no interest in keeping HMV going for the long term ,I give them 2 years max .

 

So:

That's what happens when you sign a deal with the devil venture capitalists...

 

The discipline of the market, or summat.

 

Laat de Rode Haan maar kraaien,

Als je 't kapitaal kunt naaien.

 

as an old Dutch socialist song goes.

 

regards,

Hein

[the_engineer 1,405]

Now all the Edinburgh stores are closing , That's 15 so far.

 

 

http://www.scotsman.com/business/retail/hmv-stores-in-edinburgh-to-close-1-3256008

[Whitehouse 821]

Mötley Crüe is calling it quits. tomorrow their last ever gig.

[Paul Bearer 5,650]

Mötley Crüe is calling it quits. tomorrow their last ever gig.

When did Motley Crew become a company?

[jujyfruits 2]

Mötley Crüe is calling it quits. tomorrow their last ever gig.

When did Motley Crew become a company?

 

Around the time they became an itinerant 80s nostalgia theme park.

[Whitehouse 821]

Mötley Crüe is calling it quits. tomorrow their last ever gig.

When did Motley Crew become a company?

 

Yeah, I know but I couldn't be bothered with a "Dying bands" topic. Don't think it exists as such though. Members die, and are given the proper attention but whole bands is a bit a of different monster. Maybe we should open one.

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

Well, who on earth would have thought an insurgent currency put together by a bunch of libertarian neckbeards would be unstable? Bitcoin's MtGox collapses, losing investors $0.5 billion.

[themaninblack 2,112]

That might prompt the Arabs to sell back that sand they bought...

[Dr. Zorders 1,269]

Some whining from Russell Kane and others about the BBC3 axing because it apparently it's a blow to young people's comedy or something........

Although, it's not actually being made clear yet whether it's being truly axed or just being moved to iPlayer only. Conflicting reports about that I see.

 

http://www.theguardi...plans-tony-hall

 

Boo the fuck hoo though. If those comedies featuring these oh-so-exciting and fresh young talents are so good, I'm sure they will find another outlet. Apart from that all they did was show Family Guy and a bunch of those shitty Channel-4-esque, obsessive, ludicrious body image issue programs and other similar shitty "documentaries" like "Young, Dumb and Worried About the Distinct Possibility That Are My OCD-Riddled Tits Are Too Big For My Gay Halibut Lifestyle" etc.......

 

And also, "Sun, Sex and Creepy Producers Leering About In the Hotel Asking You About What Happened In Bed Last Night."

 

Maybe some of that Gavin and Staceyesque stuff will actually move to C4. I'd be glad to see it there just to get Channel 4 making something other than those body issue shows for once........

[Spade_Cooley 9,022]

The channel won't be going away completely, BBC have assured viewers that they will be making all of their valuable BBC3 content available on other platforms.

 

[Bibliogryphon 8,652]

Internacionale goes into administration again

[Guest Corey]

In Usa Quiznos just filed for bankruptcy.  For you non Americans Quiznos is a sandwich shop homeless resort to eating from only when all dumpsters and trash cans in a town are empty.