tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post2265179538826459622..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: HMV's great new idea: Selling coffeeSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-65671224117622830672007-03-15T12:39:00.000+00:002007-03-15T12:39:00.000+00:00Whisper it quietly, but when I'm not reading blogs...Whisper it quietly, but when I'm not reading blogs in work time, I'm the MD of a limited company and that business idea sounds spot on. What's Castaldo's email address?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03218849163275868272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-25303726895235766272007-03-15T12:27:00.000+00:002007-03-15T12:27:00.000+00:00I loved your idea about their plan:You want a radi...I loved your idea about their plan:<BR/><BR/><I><BR/>You want a radical, turnaround plan, HMV? Why not turn yourself into a musical Argos - keep all the CD and DVD stock out the back, people come in and order from a catalogue. You could stock ten times the stuff you do now because you can fit more in when it's not on display, and pitch it as "Why wait for Amazon to deliver - come and get it now." Throw in a pledge along the lines of "if it's not in stock when you come, and it's on release, we'll post it to you for free." Challenge Amazon on its strength - breadth of stuff - and its weakness - the delay between order and delivery, and you might just have a compelling UPS. <BR/></I><BR/><BR/>I don't just mean to blow sunshine up your ass, but that really is good stuff. I hope they read blogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-71189585046121420582007-03-15T04:12:00.000+00:002007-03-15T04:12:00.000+00:00"...aimed at restoring HMV's image as a fashionabl...<I>"...aimed at restoring HMV's image as a fashionable place to hang out..."</I><BR/><BR/>How can you restore something that never existed? Dear old Gennaro Castaldo seems to be suffering from False Memory Syndrome.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-77777496878987234482007-03-14T14:05:00.001+00:002007-03-14T14:05:00.001+00:00Dammit, I got really excited as I read the suggest...Dammit, I got really excited as I read the suggested business plan, before realising it was just a suggestion... <BR/><BR/>It's a great idea - Presumably they'd save money on it (I'm no expert but surely a big warehouse full of racks and a couple of stock pickers is going to be cheaper to run than a two-storey fully-fitted shop full of stock displays and racks), so the prices could come down. Surely someone at HMV has spotted that there might be a link between plummeting sales and the fact that they charge £16.99 for something you could get for a fiver on CD Wow?<BR/><BR/>I agree on the speed too - Despite pratically living on the internet and being a complete tightwad, I'd rather buy a CD from a shop and listen to it on the way home than wait 3 days for it to arrive (although online retailers, in conjunction with the Royal Mail, do offer a handy service in which they smash out the CD case's teeth prior to delivery, saving me the bother).<BR/><BR/>What I don't want is to see yet another huge area of a record shop cleared of music to make way for some grotty sofas, a dirty X-Box 360 and the Nuts-reading dregs of society stinking the place out whilst exchanging happy-slap movies and getting sweary when they discover the internet terminal has blocked access to their mate's collection of 'Balls of Steel' clips on Myspace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-75559353800028208332007-03-14T14:05:00.000+00:002007-03-14T14:05:00.000+00:00So Starbucks are selling music, and HMV are sellin...So Starbucks are selling music, and HMV are selling coffee: I would say that they should stick to what they're good at, but that would presuppose that either of them were any bloody good at anythingMikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09639836396121576665noreply@blogger.com