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| From | DanAbnrml9@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: This Just In....... |
| Date | Mon, 31 May 2004 23:38:31 EDT |
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In a message dated 5/31/2004 8:01:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
<<and dimwitted sales assistants who
can't direct you to anything other than the latest Britney Spears CD. >>
This dimwitted sales assistant would like to note that sales are up fairly
substantially this year, and while we've closed a pair of stores (in both cases
because of lease issues), we also just opened a brand new one. We're also
faring far better than our music retail competition, both in terms of the
"giants" (the irrelevent Tower and HMV, with 1 and 2 Boston-area stores,
respectively) and the bread-and-butter music retailers (the equally irrelevent FYE and
Strawberries, who nevertheless do rope in the VERY casual, base-level
consumers). The problem with all of those stores? THEY'RE NOT FUN. No one wants to
spend time in them! Why would anyone bother to go to a store if it doesn't
have some surprises, if it isn't sort of an exciting place to dig through the
bins and look for stuff? If music retailers die, it's because, as Graham
Parker once said, they have a small brain and refuse to learn. The companies that
do learn may make it, if not forever (and frankly, probably NOT forever) then
at least or awhile longer. --Jason
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