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From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
Subject | Re: HMV in NYC, R.I.P.? |
Date | Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:29:40 +0000 |
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Does Newbury Comics have a decent online service?
>From: "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: HMV in NYC, R.I.P.?
>Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:56:46 -0400
>
>I've made this point before, so I'll keep it short, but I think the record
>business is the only business that caters to the light consumer. Your HMVs
>and Towers are geared to the people who buy 0-5 CDs a year. I used to love
>browsing in record stores; now when I buy CDs I almost always do so online,
>from someplace that will have the inventory to meet the shopping list of my
>heavy purchaser needs. Like Not Lame. Even like Stewart's Newbury Comics;
>haven't been in one in ages, but they carry the Instant Live CDs that Clear
>Channel produces at their online store. I still like browsing the cool
>indie stores of course, but there are fewer and fewer of them.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:04 PM
>Subject: Re: HMV in NYC, R.I.P.?
>
>
> >
> > Christopher wrote:
> > > I'm not one to sob for any chain that charges upwards of $19 as
> > > their
> > > standard CD price, but it *is* a passing of an era, no longer to be
> > > able to
> > > count on a brick-and-mortar with huge (i.e. wide *and* deep)
> > > selection for
> > > those days when you know what you want and don't want to wait for
> > > your
> > > favorite internet retailer to ship it to you. And of course, a
> > > not-inconsequential side-effect, the art of browsing is nearly dead
> > > now too.
> >
> > Well, of course a huge part of the problem in both HMV and Tower is
> > that I would know what I wanted, but THEY didn't -- both chains had
> > fairly limited selections when it came to indie-label and import
> > items. And, as you say, they also wanted me to pay full list price.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm naïve (okay, I'm definitely naïve), but I have to wonder,
> > > did it
> > > have to be this way? Might there not have been a way for HMV to do
> > > what the
> > > other chains can't seem to, put together a staff who are excited
> > > about the
> > > product they're selling, to provide customers a real service?
> >
> > In other words, to act like -- and yes, I'm going to talk about them
> > again -- Newbury Comics. Again, it's a small chain -- although there
> > are now more Newbury Comics stores than there are HMVs in the US, and
> > at something like 22 locations, I bet there's more than there are
> > Virgin Megastores too -- but they're a chain that knows who their
> > customers are and what their customers want, and they're not out to
> > completely hose us, either. Newbury Comics knows that if I come in on
> > release day to buy, say, SMILE and they have it for something like
> > $11.88, that's money that I have left in my pocket that I might be
> > willing to spend on, say, the new Snow Patrol album for $7.99 and the
> > new Bevis Frond for their regular list price of $14.99. Because I
> > think I'm getting a bargain, I end up spending MORE money and buying
> > more albums than I would have if I'd spent $18.99 on the same Brian
> > Wilson album at HMV! Simple retail logic, something that most stores
> > don't have anymore.
> >
> > And if the art of browsing is dead, then nobody's told the folks at
> > Newbury Comics. Hell, I can be in there for hours.
> >
> > It can be done. It's just that only one company (that I know of) is
> > doing it.
> >
> > S
> >
> >
>
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