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.
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.
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!!
It was only a matter of time with Love Film and online streaming that blockbuster would go out of business.
Does anybody remember that man who use to have like a milk float type of van, and it would be stacked full of DVD's for rental??
Yep, I think he was from a video shop in holbrooks on the cross roads just up from the craftsman?
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!!!
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