Blockbuster Video are the next to go (2 Viewers)
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derbyskyblue
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The way were going everybody will online shop for everything and the high street will be no more.
Now that really will be a shame.
Now that really will be a shame.
Lets all sing together
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had the exact same conversation with a snack van owner whilst buying a Bacon and Egg sandwich at the weekend , he was parked in front of an empty Comet store , rumours are 'Dreams' (the bed place) are next , We could in a few years be left with very very different town centres and retail parks
WillieStanley
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Playing Devils Advocate, it could be a good thing for the highstreet.
For as long as I've known, high streets and city centres have been filled with larger or smaller versions of the same shops. Now, with former titans such as our beloved HMV vanishing and the ability to buy pretty much anything on Amazon and the like, it could potentially drive down the ridiculous rent for comercial spaces in these prime locations along with obscene business rates. This then could fill those spaces with specialist and niche stores ran by sole traders, with local produce, obscure music shops, independent cinemas and resteraunts. It could be a utopia of the unique. We all expect to pay a little extra for that one of 200 copies of a Divo bootleg, if you fancy one, you need to get to Coventry City Centre... oh you're after burger made from Impala... Nuneaton's your place!
Just after a cheap shopping trip? Right, you need to head out to the sticks of Coventry to Arena Park, there's a giant Greggs and a Tesco, shouldn't be much of a queue.
Just dreaming? I hope not!!
For as long as I've known, high streets and city centres have been filled with larger or smaller versions of the same shops. Now, with former titans such as our beloved HMV vanishing and the ability to buy pretty much anything on Amazon and the like, it could potentially drive down the ridiculous rent for comercial spaces in these prime locations along with obscene business rates. This then could fill those spaces with specialist and niche stores ran by sole traders, with local produce, obscure music shops, independent cinemas and resteraunts. It could be a utopia of the unique. We all expect to pay a little extra for that one of 200 copies of a Divo bootleg, if you fancy one, you need to get to Coventry City Centre... oh you're after burger made from Impala... Nuneaton's your place!
Just after a cheap shopping trip? Right, you need to head out to the sticks of Coventry to Arena Park, there's a giant Greggs and a Tesco, shouldn't be much of a queue.
Just dreaming? I hope not!!
lordsummerisle
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Was saying Blockbuster would be next to go, think Waterstones hasn't got long either with the growth of Kindle and E-books.
Haven't helped themselves by starting to sell Kindles, turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind.
Haven't helped themselves by starting to sell Kindles, turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind.
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I laugh loudly at anyone who rents dvd's. It's the equivalent of buying eggs when you have a populated hen house at home.
lordsummerisle
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I literally don't know anybody who has been for Blockbusters for years, which is the problem of course.
Tad
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This is what I was saying in the HMV thread. A few years ago if you went from city to city most of the shops were all the same. This could start something better for the future though. Imagine going from one city to the next and having loads of different unique shops selling things. There really would be a reason for people to shop on the streets again if it wasn't the same 6/7 companies. The only thing about DVD's/Music/Games that's different mind, is the technology. Most of these things are going to go digital download. It's happening already. But, that doesn't mean we could have retailers selling special editions and so on.
skybluejelly
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well with blockbusters going i now feel really old it was only the early eighties that we were full of excitement at the thought of renting a video from the local video shop..its amazing when you think that we have witnessed the rise and fall of such an iconic thing in just 30 years..
god bless high speed internet
god bless high speed internet
Coventry La La La
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Renting DVDs is more ancient than Madonna’s boobs
derbyskyblue
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Its still a shame tho, who on here remembers going to jil hansons, or fennels to get the latest single, then a bag of chips from fishy moores, get home, jumpers for goalposts....fook i'm getting old.
Houchens Head
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dutchman
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Blockbuster put dozens of video rental stores out of business in Coventry alone so fuck 'em. They did it by signing exclusive distribution deals with the major studios that no independent store could possibly compete with.
What goes around comes around.
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Nick
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Yep, I think he was from a video shop in holbrooks on the cross roads just up from the craftsman?
Marty
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Oh really? I didn't know he had a shop. I'm not to bothered about the loss of Blockbusters, but it's crap that there will be many job losses (don't know on numbers). Like someone posted, hopefully this current trend will allow for more independent shops, I would pay more to shop at an independent then a big chain store.
WillieStanley
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The great thing about music is, you can have all the downloads in the world, but nothing beats the tangible product. The artwork, the reading of the sleave. What the advent of internet downloads has done as a positive, though, is force record companies to make the tangible product more appealing. I bought an album for £10 in HMV about 2 months ago. It had the original album, an acoustic album, a DVD of the making of the album and about the band, 4 guitar picks pranded with the bands logo and 2 posters - TEN POUNDS!!!
Colonel Mustard
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A quick hat tip to Video World on Daventry Road. The only independent video/DVD rental store I can think of that was there before and after Blockbuster. Long may it continue.
ajsccfc
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I bought a re-release of GZA's Liquid Swords which had an instrumental CD, little book and came in its own chess box. Magic.
I prefer books, CDs and Blu-ray/DVD over downloads any day of the week. If I'm buying something I prefer to have a physical product.