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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Record Stores |
| Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:47:21 -0400 |
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From: "Christopher Kouzes" <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com>
> I've been to Boston a couple of times in the last year and while
> found
> more than my share of good new releases at Newbury, I'm really
> surprised
> how thin their used section is (at least the location near the
> Virgin
> store).
They deliberately keep the used bins pared down: end of November,
early December, they have a massive used purge that puts practically
everything in the bins at $1. They also have the strictest
used-acceptance policy I've ever seen. So it's definitely a
deliberate choice to keep their used bins small.
On the other hand, it's next to impossible to spend more than $12.88
for a new release there (new releases by baby bands regularly retail
for $5.99 for the first month or so), so I don't begrudge them the
small used selection. I swear, if Tower would study Newbury Comics
for a couple of months, they'd see how to pull themselves out of the
hole they've been in for the last two decades.
Bullmoose up in northern New England is another really good regional
chain, incidentally.
S
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