Whats Killing The High Street

17-01-2013 02:17PM #1

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/what-really-killed-hmv-jessops-and-blockbuster-180416602.html

interesting yahoo article why lots of store are closing down , reason is why ?

there sereval reason , for me its price

there were so expensive in the first place

its cheaper to buy online and its posted to you for free (Amazon)

its more expensive to go out and buy whatever you wanted

can retailers not compete with amazon ? , in my house were big nintendo fans and a new release for nintendo is about 60 euro in HMV , it was only 44 euro on amazon and posted free .

smash · 17-01-2013 02:19PM

Why go to Grafton street when you can go to somewhere like Dundrum and be indoors? Then again, why go to Dundrum when you can be at home buying cheaper online?

admiralofthefleet · 17-01-2013 02:19PM

rent, rates, and shopping centres that were built away from main street's during the boom

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-01-2013 02:24PM

commercial rates is the big one in this country

will the councils reduce it and help save small business?

will they fcuk

not yet · 17-01-2013 02:24PM

Greedy multi-nationals with no soul.....

Mr Simpson · 17-01-2013 02:26PM

smash wrote: »

Why go to Grafton street when you can go to somewhere like Dundrum and be indoors? Then again, why go to Dundrum when you can be at home buying cheaper online?

Solution - Put a roof on Grafton Street! Problem solved, recession over

Dravokivich · 17-01-2013 02:26PM

Here's a novel idea, there's only so much shít people will buy.

ejmaztec · 17-01-2013 02:28PM

The robbers operating car-parks don't help either. Multi-storeys were thrown up all over the place because there were tax incentives to build them, and you get robbed blind when you use them. :mad:

My name is URL · 17-01-2013 02:28PM

The High Street is killing the High Street.

Zebra3 · 17-01-2013 02:29PM

We have High Streets?

Gummy Panda · 17-01-2013 02:29PM

I blame Tomo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1ZZNw-sq0

17-01-2013 02:30PM

I never go to shops in towns due to the rip off car parking prices. If parking were free or reasonable, i would go browsing and maybe make a purchase.

ITS_A_BADGER · 17-01-2013 02:33PM

piracy sites, torent sites and cheaper sites like amazon etc etc is whats killing the high street shops

17-01-2013 02:35PM

Recession.

Price transparency thanks to the web.

Kichote · 17-01-2013 02:35PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

Here's a novel idea, there's only so much shít people will buy.

This. I could walk into any given high street shop and not find a single item that would improve my life in any way that i couldnt get for half the price somewhere else. Most of what people have is good enough. Also here in Ireland particularly the shops have nothing unusual on offer only the same mass produced low quality garbage everyone already bought during the celtic tiger. Consumerism is still flourishing in China, the USA and England but it's days are numbered

squod · 17-01-2013 02:37PM

P-A-R-K-I-N-G

I don't want to spend an hour and a half of my life on a bus. I don't want to park may car a kilometer away from (and fourteen stories above) the shops.

Mostly I don't want to put my car in a place where its going to get clamped for some any reason. Too much hassle.

meoklmrk91 · 17-01-2013 02:37PM

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

piracy sites, torent sites and cheaper sites like amazon etc etc is whats killing the high street shops

Yeah I just pirated a T-shirt and a Toaster there a while ago

Fratton Fred · 17-01-2013 02:38PM

All the time that the likes of Amazon can get away with avoiding tax, shops will never be able to compete.

Stupidly high rents and rates make life hard enough, plus stupidly high charges for parking. An afternoon shopping in Grafton street will cost €12 before you start.

Add in the likes of Dundrum and you have a recipe for disaster that the councils seem oblivious to.

steddyeddy · 17-01-2013 02:38PM

As the admiral says high rents are involved. Landlords are killing our economy for their own personal gain.

Thud · 17-01-2013 02:41PM

this is AH so I blame the chuggers, root of al evil

ITS_A_BADGER · 17-01-2013 02:42PM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Yeah I just pirated a T-shirt and a Toaster there a while ago

The likes of HMV and blockbuster come under the heading of high street shops too

stmol32 · 17-01-2013 02:42PM

For me it has to be the ridiculous cost of bus fare.
It takes the best part of a tenner to get me and two kids into and home from town (Dublin).

It's about 8Km so walking isn't an option.
If I need to buy anything or go to the cinema then we walk to the nearsest shopping centre (2 Km).

Ten euros may not seem like a lot but it's a huge chunk out of my disposable income so I'm only able to go to town if it's absolutely unavoidable which is a shame because there's a much better buzz around than in any clinical staid shopping centre.

Dublin Bus can go and ask me hole the greed f**ckers.

Bullseye1 · 17-01-2013 02:43PM

MarkMc wrote: »

Solution - Put a roof on Grafton Street! Problem solved, recession over

If its good enough for Fremont Street. Maybe we could also have a light show.

not yet · 17-01-2013 02:43PM

Video....

Video killed the radio store, there ya go.

FloatingVoter · 17-01-2013 02:44PM

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

Yeah I just pirated a T-shirt and a Toaster there a while ago

My 3D printer is working away nicely. And yes, I would download a car.

anncoates · 17-01-2013 02:46PM

The big suburban reatile4rs have cheaper rent than town.

They are indoors (important in climate like ours) and they offer parking.

dd972 · 17-01-2013 02:46PM

I blame Michael Ryan and Derrick Bird

N64 · 17-01-2013 02:48PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

All the time that the likes of Amazon can get away with avoiding tax, shops will never be able to compete.

Stupidly high rents and rates make life hard enough, plus stupidly high charges for parking. An afternoon shopping in Grafton street will cost €12 before you start.

Add in the likes of Dundrum and you have a recipe for disaster that the councils seem oblivious to.

I think your talking a load of nonsense to be honest. I just checked my most recent amazon invoice and I was charged 23% Irish vat.

Got to love the AH economists

Baneblade · 17-01-2013 02:52PM

its more like they avoid corporate tax
there is a reason a load of online retailers are in jersy and im pretty sure its not the view

ejmaztec · 17-01-2013 02:53PM

N64 wrote: »

I think your talking a load of nonsense to be honest. I just checked my most recent amazon invoice and I was charged 23% Irish vat.

Got to love the AH economists

I don't think he was referring to VAT, and was probably talking about Corporation Tax.

Got to love the AH assumers. :P

Scanlas The 2nd · 17-01-2013 02:56PM

I fukcing hate the term " The high street".

Whats Killing The High Street

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