Many many businesses DEAD

[Zu]

Fingering them all to find the most mint condition one of course

Not only me who does that then...

 

[Eddie]

I‘m still tormented by arriving home to discover that the Boney M single I‘d bought in WHSmith in Hemel Hempstead wasn‘t Boney M at all but SO YOU WIN AGAIN thanks to some dozy assistant mishearing the request

Hope they ALL close down

Is that when they used to keep the ACTUAL CDs separate from the jewel cases? What a STRANGE TIME that was. Our Price did that as well as far as I recall.

 

[Zu]

Is that when they used to keep the ACTUAL CDs separate from the jewel cases? What a STRANGE TIME that was. Our Price did that as well as far as I recall.

Oh no, this was pre-CDs. We‘re talking SEVEN INCH SINGLE

 

[octophone]

Oh yeah, that reminds me the last time I was in one was with Mr Kate wanting to buy Electronic Sound with Ultravox on the front. Fingering them all to find the most mint condition one of course

You have to do that in Smiths tho' - I remember once going to be The Wire magazing in there - they had two copies, both of which had clearly been in a puddle. No ta.

 

[Eddie]

How OLD are you again Zu?

 

[Eddie]

(just asking for a friend)

 

[AGinAg (37)]

.

 

[Zu]

How OLD are you again Zu?

OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER

 

[Ellie]

Is that when they used to keep the ACTUAL CDs separate from the jewel cases? What a STRANGE TIME that was. Our Price did that as well as far as I recall.

Theft was RIFE in the high street music shops. When I worked part time in Virgin Megastore (99-02) even though the CDs all had those magnetic security boxes around them they still got nicked on a regular basis and they just legged it out of the store to get chased by security. The only things we had to keep behind the counter were games or we’d have been cleaned out by thieves on a regular basis.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I used to hack the security cases off in the loos at Tesco and then flog them to my classmates at cut cost.

 

[Jark]

OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER

if you're only as old as the MAN YOU FEEL then SUGAR DADDY ZU is a mere ZWEI UND ZWANZIG

 

[Eddie]

Theft was RIFE in the high street music shops. When I worked part time in Virgin Megastore (99-02) even though the CDs all had those magnetic security boxes around them they still got nicked on a regular basis and they just legged it out of the store to get chased by security. The only things we had to keep behind the counter were games or we’d have been cleaned out by thieves on a regular basis.

I'd never buy CDs from either establishment because quite frankly I didn't want manky ones.

 

[Zu]

if you're only as old as the MAN YOU FEEL then SUGAR DADDY ZU is a mere ZWEI UND ZWANZIG

Oh God no I didn‘t do Z UND Z even when I was Z UND Z. Chuck on another ZWANZIG FÜR ZU

 

[FetchFugly]

Is that when they used to keep the ACTUAL CDs separate from the jewel cases? What a STRANGE TIME that was. Our Price did that as well as far as I recall.

Even Sainsbury's were still doing this up to the early 2000s. They used to put a numbered sticker in the tray where the CD sits and anyone buying a CD or DVD with their shop would have to wait for a supervisor to be summoned to collect the precious disc from the cigarette kiosk. How quaint.

 

[Eddie]

Oh God no I didn‘t do Z UND Z even when I was Z UND Z. Chuck on another ZWANZIG FÜR ZU

So you're more ancient than me. Jolly good.

 

[Eddie]

Actually I got my mathematik wrong.

 

[Zu]

So you're more ancient than me. Jolly good.

Not really how I choose to self-define but as you will

Also, what I meant was that I‘d rather go for someone who was 42 than some 22 year old dollybird, rather than saying I‘m 42

 

[Eddie]

Ooh ok

 

[Zu]

My age was a bit of a Soldi obsession and I find it quite boring. Either people like my posts or they don‘t. I‘m not here for DATES

 

[Zu]

Anyway, where were we?

 

[Eddie]

I'm STILL not sure what that's meant to be y'know.

Is it just worn carpet?

 

[Zu]

I'm STILL not sure at that's meant to be y'know.

Is it just worn carpet?

It‘s scabby old WHS raking in the cash from desperate travellers and still leaving their shops looking like shite

 

[Eddie]

NATCH

 

[Tisch]

WH Smith used to have the worst price stickers on CDs that wouldn’t come off in one go. It was the main reason I didn’t buy from there.

Oh that was always MVC for me.

DEAD of course

 

[Tisch]

I'm STILL not sure what that's meant to be y'know.

Is it just worn carpet?

@Zu-Klara needs to start a lovely WH Smith carpet thread in the lifestyle forum so you can see many more fab examples. My favourite is when they stick lines of tape over it no real reason

 

[octophone]

My favourite is when they stick lines of tape over it no real reason

Oh, that's not for no reason...that's when it has finally become an actual health and safety hazard. It's very rare anything gets done until someone goes base over apex.

 

[Tisch]

That's a shame. I assumed it was a nice design!

 

[octophone]

That's a shame. I assumed it was a nice design!

A bit of subtle rebranding? You want Tesco for that...they use actual red and white striped tape when their flooring is fucked.

 

[Diddy]

Theft was RIFE in the high street music shops. When I worked part time in Virgin Megastore (99-02) even though the CDs all had those magnetic security boxes around them they still got nicked on a regular basis and they just legged it out of the store to get chased by security. The only things we had to keep behind the counter were games or we’d have been cleaned out by thieves on a regular basis.

yeah it wasn’t so bad at mine, but there was a bloke who would come in and lick the CDs, so the plastic keepers were very necessary.

He was some combination of deaf and blind too, and apparently the only way to hear us was by grasping our NECKS like he’s choking us one-handed, an experience I had to go through once when I was the only male staff member on my floor one night

 

[Kate]

He was some combination of dead and blind

Oh no, as if being dead wasn’t bad enough poor bloke

 

[Ellie]

Wow! I certainly never had to deal with anything that. I just remember a regular strange girl who was an obsessed Hear’Say fan coming to the counter quite often to discuss their music in detail. I honestly have no idea how she got so much traction out of them.

 

[SDF]

Oh no, as if being dead wasn’t bad enough poor bloke

 

[Diddy]

Oh no, as if being dead wasn’t bad enough poor bloke

bloody autocorrect, I had to do that 3 times and still somehow it got through

 

[SDF]

Dead like John Menzies

 

[octophone]

Dead like John Menzies

I have very fond memories of the John Menzies on Argyle Street. Bought my first album ever there and I have other memories of both their enormous book and music departments. I have an equally vivid memory of the record/cassette dept in the Menzies in the Mitchell arcade on Rutherglen Main Street, mainly because it was upstairs in its own wee alcove which made it feel like a shop within a shop - to my 9-10 year old mind, that made it seem all the more magical.

 

[SDF]

I spent many a Saturday afternoon in the bottom floor of Menzies on argyle street. The music section was huge.

 

[Kate]

Peacocks and Jaeger DEAD.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Peacocks was alive?!

 

[Kate]

Someone said they were ON THE VERGE last week

 

[GNL]

The writing was on the wall when they hired HONEY G for their Christmas campaign