I've never seen the point in click and collect. You've got to go and pick it up anyway, so why not just go to the store and pick it up? Waste of time doing the 'clicking' bit.
So you know they have stock and don't have a wasted journey.
I've never seen the point in click and collect. You've got to go and pick it up anyway, so why not just go to the store and pick it up? Waste of time doing the 'clicking' bit.
Me to no way will I wait ages to download a film which buffers out halfway through. and Watch it on a laptop screen when I have a 42 inch TV in the room with surround sound.
When you live in the country Superfast broadband is still a dream here.
I refuse to use things like Netflix and whilst I did use Lovefilm I just got fed up waiting and waiting for the DVD I wanted to become available.
The streaming of rental media is another nail in HMV business, I could watch lovefilm.com from a smart TV, ITunes content through Apple TV or rent a film from Virgin media, there are so many convenient options!
The thing that needs to be looked into is how you can sell a download film at the same price as a physical copy?
HMV were stuck in a time warp and couldn't adopt a strategy to combat losses. What you don't do is charge prices that can't compete with other High St retailers let alone the internet. The writing was on the wall a long time ago but the management were too blinkered to see it.
HMV were stuck in a time warp and couldn't adopt a strategy to combat losses. What you don't do is charge prices that can't compete with other High St retailers let alone the internet. The writing was on the wall a long time ago but the management were too blinkered to see it.
If you are not making the money you made 5 years ago as people buy less physical format discs what do you do?
The technology in stores arrived too late. People will miss HMV so nobody can moan. Everytime you click and order online another shops going bust.
Support the high street is the answer otherwise there won't be one.
Also with Game shutting half there stores last year does anybody feel HMV never did much in the gaming market?
Yes they did game launches but there walls of games never changed and the prices remained high. Even under new ownership Game and it's higher prices were STILL cheaper than HMV.
Again people will complain that they're not able to use gift cards, but they will still go and buy them from another store. :rolleyes:. Gift cards are a pointless exercise, i'm sure people would prefer £10 with no strings attached than £10 that must be spent in a specific shop anyway.
The thing is..
Before Christmas I found the 22 dvd bond collection for £50 on HMV Online..
Their stores where selling it for £100..
Now examples of this..
No wonder they are in a mess..
Well perhaps under new ownership there's room to turn them around.
Even *if* a large number of stores shut the current owners set up pop up shops quickly. They could easily get back to where they were depends on how things go.
Next PS3 looks to be disc based. Blu Ray is still popular so there's still a good 5-10 years of physical format. If no new owner comes along obviously supermarkets will just add more to fill the void.
Again people will complain that they're not able to use gift cards, but they will still go and buy them from another store. :rolleyes:. Gift cards are a pointless exercise, i'm sure people would prefer £10 with no strings attached than £10 that must be spent in a specific shop anyway.
Morrisons is basing one of their core marketing activities around gift cards at the moment, in exchange for a discount on fuel.
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So you know they have stock and don't have a wasted journey.
Closed their one and only store in my local town a good 15 years back (still empty now). Who rents DVD's today......in fact who buys DVD's??
Is it really that hard to work out?
I buy DVD's!!!!
When it comes to supermarkets, yes. When it comes with items that will obviously be in stock, yes. Other things no.
Me and a whole load of other people.
Me to no way will I wait ages to download a film which buffers out halfway through. and Watch it on a laptop screen when I have a 42 inch TV in the room with surround sound.
When you live in the country Superfast broadband is still a dream here.
I refuse to use things like Netflix and whilst I did use Lovefilm I just got fed up waiting and waiting for the DVD I wanted to become available.
The thing that needs to be looked into is how you can sell a download film at the same price as a physical copy?
No.
Gift vouchers were stopped tonight.
If you are not making the money you made 5 years ago as people buy less physical format discs what do you do?
The technology in stores arrived too late. People will miss HMV so nobody can moan. Everytime you click and order online another shops going bust.
Support the high street is the answer otherwise there won't be one.
Going on previous admins like game etc they started taking vouchers once a buyer was found.
I can't tell if you are being serious or not??
Comet was a one off as they started taking them again.
Also I wonder if somebody does buy HMV do they take on the existing debt I take it? That could be the downfall.
There's more chance of some stores being saved unlike Comet which relayed on big warehouses.
Zavvi saved about 15 stores after they went under and it was under Head Entertainment but that venture never lasted long.
Yes they did game launches but there walls of games never changed and the prices remained high. Even under new ownership Game and it's higher prices were STILL cheaper than HMV.
So they could have done more in the games market.
He was being serious.
Oooo no.
Before Christmas I found the 22 dvd bond collection for £50 on HMV Online..
Their stores where selling it for £100..
Now examples of this..
No wonder they are in a mess..
Well perhaps under new ownership there's room to turn them around.
Even *if* a large number of stores shut the current owners set up pop up shops quickly. They could easily get back to where they were depends on how things go.
Next PS3 looks to be disc based. Blu Ray is still popular so there's still a good 5-10 years of physical format. If no new owner comes along obviously supermarkets will just add more to fill the void.