The failure of High Street shops

[Padgates staff]

So, recently Comet and Jessops have gone and HMV looks very likely (to me) to be the next and really I can't see how HMV can do anything to help themselves. I had a massive amount of CD's and DVD's at one bit but over the course of the last year, I've sold about 98% of them and I listen to most of the music I want online and I don't have to dust them. I can't really say I'm bothered either way if I have music/radio/ipod on in the car or not.
I also wonder if stores on the High Street suffer due to out-of-time supermarkets have got bigger and sell more things at a more competative price and people don't have to pay for parking, in Sheffield, because the shops are spread out over a mile long route, it's not always a good move to park up and walk about because whatever you buy, you're forced to carry about until you get back to the place where you're parked and it has got quite expensive to park too.
I just wonder how many other stores will meet their downfall this year.

[Angelo222]

Times are a changing Joanne and shoppers are becoming more price conscious.  Supermarkets are primarily concerned with selling food stuffs and are using the carrot of cut price merchandise as a way of attracting more shoppers into their stores.  It may be good for the consumer but the ordinary High St retailers just cannot compete any more.  It is a shame watching the likes of Woolworths, Comet and now HMV disappear for good but they are only the start.  Many more well known brands will go before this recession is over.

[Tim Invictus]

It's mainly Amazon, iTunes and the likes fault imo ....... I hardly ever buy anything like DVD's anywhere but on line these days. Amazon are based in Luxembourg where they pay little tax ..... Hopefully they will now have to pay their fair share in the UK.

[Padgates staff]

Blockbuster today, I was suprised actually to learn that people do still rent DVD's....Obviously they don't!

[Myster]

Blockbuster today, I was suprised actually to learn that people do still rent DVD's....Obiously they don't!

I hold my hands up.... I'm to blame.... I've never been in Blockbuster in my life!

[Padgates staff]

Nor me, I don't think I've rented a film since about 1988!

[insider]

Blockbuster today, I was suprised actually to learn that people do still rent DVD's....Obiously they don't!

I hold my hands up.... I'm to blame.... I've never been in Blockbuster in my life!

Nor me or at least it was such an insignificant event that I have forgotten about it   >@@(*&)    The same for HMV but I think I once paid them a visit in London about 25 years ago as that store looked quite interesting.

[Padgates staff]

After the collapse of Virgin record stores and then the closure of Zavvi, I should have seen it coming.