Two more retail companies look doomed

[meeesh]

Kleeneeze gone now,only bought some sink and drain unblocker off them last week,and a useless cheese grater,about 5,000 door to door sales reps fucked now

 

[che_don_john]

Video games retailer? Doomed. Most games these days are downloaded. Why pay rates, rents, staff costs etc etc. It's not surprising. And nowt to do with the economy.

Video games are somewhat of an anomaly in that the downloadable/digital versions of games are usually more expensive than the retail ones; and then of course you have the pre-owned market which only applies to physical copies. So, there is still room and a need for video game retailers.

It's a shame that Grainger Games is going; they're kind of the nice guys to the more cynical and slightly nefarious GAME.

 

[jimharri]

Harvester and O' Neill's are both part of the same group, Mitchell and Butler. That site was never right for a Harvester, which is a pretty successful and long-standing chin tbf.

 

[peoffrey]

Harvester and O' Neill's are both part of the same group, Mitchell and Butler. That site was never right for a Harvester, which is a pretty successful and long-standing chin tbf.

Gotcha. Just rebranded then.

Perhaps we were just plain unlucky; but they had no fish at all for her and then one chicken dish was off too. First time I've experienced something like that eating out.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Homebase went into administration today

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Homebase went into administration today

I’m surprised they’ve lasted this long, rip off prices, why go there when you can get stuff from Screwfix etc.?

 

[asaluttar]

I’m surprised they’ve lasted this long, rip off prices, why go there when you can get stuff from Screwfix etc.?

Problem is we will end up with just KFC, mcdonald, Asda, pound shops and gambling shops on the High Street

 

[RACHACE]

Problem is we will end up with just KFC, mcdonald, Asda, pound shops and gambling shops on the High Street

The new FOBT regulations might even see off the gambling shops.

 

[dickie davies]

Problem is we will end up with just KFC, mcdonald, Asda, pound shops and gambling shops on the High Street

I've never seen a Homebase on a high street

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Problem is we will end up with just KFC, mcdonald, Asda, pound shops and gambling shops on the High Street

Things need to evolve on the High Street, it’s essentially stayed the same for the last 50 years+ that model is broken, it can’t compete with on line retaywho have out of town hubs that operate at a much lower cost to a High Street rent rate, time the councils woke the fuck up and made it cheaper to open a shop on the High Street. It won’t be long before Amazon open a physical store in the UK, they have trucks appearing in major Cities, they’re testing out Physical stores in the US with no tills, hi-tech cameras scan the store and customers are billed as they leave the store with items, how that will work in reality if gangs target them I don’t know, but it’s the future, and it is coming....