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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Music Stores Closing |
| Date | Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:25:45 -0500 |
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At Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:30:00 Bruce wrote:
>I'll take some of it. ;-P well, at least w/ the indie power pop side of
>things. I wouldn't buy major label stuff from Not Lame, either! ;-P
>
>A bit more seriously, w/ Media Play/Musicland closing stores left 'n right,
>renogiating leases w/ the stores remaining, it brings warm sweet memories
>of
>the only time I over worked for a corporation, when I managed Sam
>Goody/Musicland stores in LA for two years(the hair metal years in LA, late
>80's...talk about hell). And how explaining to the district manager and
>regional manager that we needed to set up the store store with what our
>customers were looking for and be able to buy what they were coming to us
>for and being met w/ derisive threats always revolving around the use of
>the
>phrase: "Follow The Planogram". Rot On.
This is exactly what has happened to HMV. The British head office has hired
consultants and bean counters to reformat the best use of their staff and
floor space per square foot vs. $$$ and have created a store model that is
now identical in every city no matter what size the facility is in (stand
alone store front or shopping mall cubical). With that decree all indie and
REGIONAL musical taste is now verbotten.
In 1991 the mothership opened on Yonge Street and as I was years away from
the national distribution deal we now enjoy, I was still banging on retail
doors doing consignment deals. HMV welcomed us with open arms....and then
the Barenaked Ladies blew the doors wide open with their yellow tape and
retail was never the same again. But I digress.
Currently, HMV only carries my titles BECAUSE I'm attached to a nationally
recognize, and influential distributor. I field dozens of calls a week from
acts wondering if/how they can attach their little red wagons to our retail
dragon. Some of these acts we've taken on...but we can't do it for everyone.
It's getting to the point now where I'm considering BEING a distributor
rather than giving what little money these acts make to a third party
(namely the distributor).
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
http://www.bullseyerecords.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
http://www.myspace.com/jaimievernonsmovingtargetz
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