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  1. #191
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    I dare say any stores that are losing a lot of cash will be pruned unless they can trim them
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    FYI, an article in today's Financial Post about this:

    https://business.financialpost.com/n...unrise-records

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    Disappointed that the Fopp store in Bristol is closing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by willbewill View Post
    Disappointed that the Fopp store in Bristol is closing.
    Never heard of that. What's a Fopp anyway?
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Never heard of that. What's a Fopp anyway?
    they are record stores owned by hmv.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by willbewill View Post
    Disappointed that the Fopp store in Bristol is closing.
    That is sad news. Fopp was its own thing when it was independent and while Fopp under HMV was sort of HMV lite, they still retained some of the Fopp vibe so Fopp shops going is a loss.

    I see no mention of the Belfast HMV shop closing, cautious smile.
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    The vinyl section in my HMV seems to have been on steroids lately and now covers about a fifth of the space. Even better, they've installed waist height racks with a bit of space in them. The old ones were stepped so that the rear (highest) section was pretty much unviewable even for someone 6 foot tall, and the albums were all rammed in so you couldn't browse them without bending them. Several titles at £9.99 now too. Things are looking up

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    Vinyl saves HMV! If only they hadnt stocked those pesky cds

    Now all they need to do is convert some space to beard trimming and a delicatessen.

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    No, they need to open up a café like they do in Waterstones, where you can read and have a coffee at the same time! There is an acute shortage of coffee shops in the high street these days - we need a few more.

    Either that, or employ staff who know a bit more about the records they sell, apart from the price.
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