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3rd July 2007, 11:21 PM
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| Dark Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Falkirk
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| Fopp's demise For those of you in the UK, you might have heard of the demise of a particullarly good music/DVD/Book store, Fopp. Up here in Edinburgh there were two, both closed now. I do wonder if this is a sign of the times, the web taking over from real stores. Any thoughts. |
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3rd July 2007, 11:47 PM
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| resident pedantissimo  | Re: Fopp's demise It most certainly is; partly electronic downloading, partly ordered by post; it's not entirely a bad thing, but the little independants are already a threatened species, and with them go the expertise and personal contact; if the chains follow them into oblivion it will be a sad day, despite the number of people in obscure regions who can, for the first time, have a decent choice of music, film and literature. |
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6th July 2007, 04:40 PM
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| Dark Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Falkirk
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| Re: Fopp's demise Indeed many lunch times wasted in their, many times the wife asking, "where did that CD come from" and me replying "why honey weve had it for years  and it was cheap!"I hear some rumours tha they might be looking for a buyer. Which one were you in most I did like the one up Co burn St, but the Rose st one was where I spent most of me time that and CEX next to it. Oh well just going to have to browse CEX more  |
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9th August 2007, 02:48 PM
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| Dark Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Falkirk
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| Re: Fopp's demise Hello all I've recently heard that HMV are taking over a few of Fopp's stores to keepthe name alive, one wonders will this be a good or a bad thing. Will they keep the pricing policys that Fopp had or will they just use it as an extension of theyre already bloated and over priced franchise.  Lets hope not.. |
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9th August 2007, 05:56 PM
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| he's the madcap pusher  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: West Dunbartonshire
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| Re: Fopp's demise HMV have taken over the chain and have reopened some shops one in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow and a couple down south, unfortunately my local store in Clydebank remains closed which is unfortunate as it is directly across from HMV which was handy as I could find what I was looking for in HMV then go across to Fopp to get it cheaper, I have had so many bargains in Fopp and have spent many an hour in their various stores I will miss it |
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