BS: Zavvi go under

Subject: BS: Zavvi go under
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 24 Dec 08 - 02:10 PM

And another one bites the dust...


Zavvi News - The Guardian

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: Azizi
Date: 24 Dec 08 - 08:31 PM

Hello, Lizzie.

Here's a link to a dailykos dairy about the topic of this thread:

Watching the British high street implode
by expatyank
Wed Dec 24, 2008 at 01:12:33 PM PST

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/24/152942/56/374/676950


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Here's an excerpt from that diary which has 148 comments at this time:

"Things are not jolly on the British high street this holiday season (the "high street" is the shopping street in any town, or any large neighbourhood if you're in a big city). In the past 24 hours, three well-known store chains have "called in the administrators," i.e. gone bankrupt. Many others are teetering on the brink.

In the country famously described as a "nation of shopkeepers"--whether originally by Napoleon or Adam Smith, no one knows--this does not make for yuletide cheer.

The three stores to pack it in just now are Whittard of Chelsea, Officers Club, and Zavvi. Whittard is the kind of place you buy presents for your gran--tea and a nice mug, or a cute teapot. Zavvi is what used to be the Virgin Megastores music/film/games chain, which only changed over to trading under its new name recently. Officers Club is a low-cost men's clothing shop. Why worry? Well, none of these is a "high-end" retailer. They're places that sell affordable items that most people in work can afford.

And that's the problem--you need to be in work to afford to buy DVDs, or a new jacket, or some nice mugs. I happen to live at ground zero of rising unemployment in the UK, apparently--my ward (neighbourhood) is at 14.5 percent unemployed now and going up.

Other shops have also been closing down in the weeks running up to Christmas. The biggest of these was Woolworth's."...

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: GUEST,Mr Mincepie
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 03:59 AM

Zavvi gone down the lavvy..

continue this new folk protest song as early morning xmas cheer alchohol intake permits.....

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 05:16 AM

Another company exits. Not too painful that, we trust
Funny, I never heard of them, until the store went bust

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: akenaton
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 07:29 AM

Mr Branson offloaded it some time ago for £1.....did he know we were bound for shit creek?......Did they all know?

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 25 Dec 08 - 07:33 AM

HMV always had a better Folk section even though Zavvi / Virgin had bigger shops

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 05:07 AM

Good job they had a recent name change, or the headline might have read:

"Virgin goes down"

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 05:33 PM

They deserve to go! I was in the jazz/folk/classical/world section of the Liverpool shop recently, and the volume of the rock music that filled the room was ridiculous! To make the situation even dafter, there wasn't even any rock music for sale in that area of the shop.

Subject: RE: BS: Zavvi go under
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Dec 08 - 08:16 PM

One of their shops actually had a jazz/folk/classical/world section???

I think I went into the Edinburgh one twice since it opened as a Virgin Megastore. It must have been pissing with rain the second time.