krj
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Feb 4 20:53 UTC 2001 |
Another CD shop obituary... I hopped over to Windsor today and found
that Dr. Disc will be closing on February 11. The sign in the window
invited customers to stop in and pay their respects; viewing hours
end at 6 pm. My visit was cut drastically short; I had planned
on the store having its usual late evening hours.
Dr. Disc was part of a southern Ontario chain of indie-oriented stores,
and I didn't ask if the whole chain was going out of business, or
just the Windsor store. I'd only been there a few times over the years;
their folk stocks were always disappointing, but they did carry a
lot of Canadian rock bands which I might have heard on the CBC-FM
late night shows. Today, the stock has already been well
picked over -- the store was about half empty -- and the sale discounts
weren't too deep, so I wouldn't recommend a trip there for anything
except sentimental reasons.
Perhaps the relatively new (?) HMV store in the Devonshire Mall
pushed Dr. Disc over the edge; the HMV store had a lot of goodies
in it. ((preserved from item:154...))
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krj
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Feb 21 04:36 UTC 2001 |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32294-2001Feb20.html
The Post has a grim article on the consolidation of music retail power
in the hands of Wal-Mart, KMart and Best Buy, and similar operations.
Or, more specifically, in the hands of the buyers for those stores.
The people who run one such buying service don't actually listen
to the music. They don't care.
The article says that a typical Wal-Mart carries around 4,000 titles.
A Tower outlet would typically carry 20 times that many, but the
increased selection is not helping to protect Tower's market share.
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