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Virgin Megastores have changed and are now called....

  • 16-01-2008 02:12AM
    #1
    eskimo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭


    Zavvi! Did anyone know about this??

    www.zavvi.co.uk


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  • #2
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    This joke:
    What do you call 500 nuns in a warehouse?


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    They must have popped their cherry.


  • #4
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    eskimo wrote: »
    Zavvi! Did anyone know about this??

    www.zavvi.co.uk

    At least Cork and Dublin City fora.
    Ex: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055215692


  • #5
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    It's all about the game.
    http://www.zavvi.co.uk/medias/sys_master/8556376536095168.gif


  • #6
    Charlie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,827 ✭✭✭Charlie


    When I was a young mucker, I used to love going up to the second floor of the old megastore and try and muster up the balls to look at the porn vids. I'd always bottle it and vear to the wrestling ones.....:rolleyes:


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  • #7
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Well there goes my last chance of getting into a virgin.





    Sorry, I'll go now...


  • #8
    Patricide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭Patricide


    God what a bad idea, cant see this rebranding making much buisness sense, virgin was a well known liked name. There just spending money changing everything and having people not like the brand name.


  • #9
    Reku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    They might want to make sure all their branch managers are aware, at Xmas they still had signs up in Kilkenny for the Virgin Megastore that was "coming soon". Though I guess if they'd said "Zavvi megastore coming soon" people would've simply thought "wtf?", whereas if they wait until it's been open a while at least people might come to associate the two names more easily.


  • #10
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    intersting thread.


  • #11
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Yeah, if you go into the Virgin megastore in Kilkenny, even since it opened, all the price labels on the stuff say "Zavvi".


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  • #12
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    They'd get more customers if they called it Mergin' Vaginastore:D


  • #13
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    It's a new hip name to appeal to the kids.


  • #14
    el rabitos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    It's a new hip name to appeal to the kids.

    nope, its a new hip name because branson sold it to the management company that had been running it and the name had to be legally changed and the stores completely rebranded as part of the deal.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Whats a Zavvi?


  • #16
    el rabitos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Whats a Zavvi?

    its a name the management people literally pulled out of their ass. they wanted a name that was one word and thats what they came up with, clever huh


  • #17
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"


  • #18
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,210 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Dudess wrote: »
    I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"


    You would have expected that from teenagers not older men.


    But still you should not have been disciplined for that. As i bet if them men had daughters your age and someone spoke to them like that, they would have been up in arms.



    *unless they were them dirty old men types.

    ******



  • #19
    Kess73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Dudess wrote: »
    I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"





    Sounds familiar, I could guess at who disciplined you too. I worked in the Cork store once upon a time, so I am going with either M or A that sided with the customer.


  • #20
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    :D Oh the "M" and "A" I knew were lovely! No, it was L.
    citytillidie wrote: »
    i bet if them men had daughters your age and someone spoke to them like that, they would have been up in arms.



    *unless they were them dirty old men types.
    I'd be willing to bet those "dirty old men" types would still be up in arms if their daughters were spoken to like that!


  • #21
    eamoss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭eamoss


    My post in the North East http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54863016&postcount=184
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavvi
    During the early to mid 2000s Virgin Group decided to sell off most of its Virgin Megastores to various companies, including Related Companies and the Lagardere Group. The UK and Ireland arm of Virgin Megastores was bought out by members of the management, led by managing director Simon Douglas and finance director Steve Peckham, for an undisclosed sum
    Virgin Megastores Ireland will change to 'zavvi Ireland' in January 2008.

    Found out a while back, Was watching sky and I was thinking Zazzi ads are the same as Virgin then did a google search and found out what happened.


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  • #22
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,937 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I presume all old Virgin Megastore vouchers (of which I got some for christmas) are still valid?


  • #23
    el rabitos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭el rabitos


    5starpool wrote: »
    I presume all old Virgin Megastore vouchers (of which I got some for christmas) are still valid?

    they are


  • #24
    Maximilian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,400 ✭✭✭Maximilian


    Damn it, I was hoping they were going to change it to something like Whore-Store® instead. Missed opportunity if you ask me.


  • #25
    pd101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭pd101


    Stephen wrote: »
    Yeah, if you go into the Virgin megastore in Kilkenny, even since it opened, all the price labels on the stuff say "Zavvi".

    Saw that today alright when I was down there. Didn't have a clue what it was about.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    charlie mchugh wrote: »
    When I was a young mucker, I used to love going up to the second floor of the old megastore and try and muster up the balls to look at the porn vids. I'd always bottle it and vear to the wrestling ones.....:rolleyes:

    lol

    So I wasnt the only one!


  • #27
    Kess73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Dudess wrote: »
    :D Oh the "M" and "A" I knew were lovely! No, it was L.


    I'd be willing to bet those "dirty old men" types would still be up in arms if their daughters were spoken to like that!





    Am pretty sure that L is still there.


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dudess wrote: »
    ...Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined ...

    Heh heh heh, I'll bet you were.....


  • #29
    yogert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭yogert


    This was posted on a site a while back bout the whole changeover funny stuff>>> http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1999&Itemid=206

    A few weeks later the folks behind the website were sent a zavvi gift card from the owners and had a much nicer view of the whole debacle! http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2027&Itemid=206


  • #30
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Heh heh heh, I'll bet you were.....
    :D


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  • #31
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Virgin in Belfast has been Zavvi for a good while - since maybe Halloween I'd say. I'm an HMV man though.


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