FOPP news

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

http://www.retail-week.com/nav?page=retailweek.news.detail&resource=6897573

Music retailer Fopp has stopped taking orders online and is only accepting cash payments at its stores.

Fopp posted on its web site: “Due to circumstances beyond our control we cannot currently take orders online. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.” A notice on the tills said it was having problems with “authorisation systems”.

This follows an announcement on Friday that it had closed 50 stores for an extraordinary stock-take, a week after it told publishers to stop supplying new books and replenishments.

looking bad, as far as i can tell. administration at worst, THE MOST AMAZING CLOSING DOWN SALE EVER at best (apologies to those who work/know others who work there...)

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

That would be a terrible shame. I really like Fopp and their left-of-norm stock. And their prices...

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

I like Fopp but am apt to blame at least part of their troubles on the baroque 'file by genre' system their shops employ. Are My Chemical Romance 'Pop', 'Modern Alternative', 'Rock' or 'Metal'? They could easily fit into any of the above! BUT THEY ARE IN NONE OF THE ABOVE THEY ARE IN THE '£7' GENRE WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME FOPP I HAVE DONE YOU NOTHING BUT GOOD.

I would be unhappy if they closed, though. The sound in the TCR branch is superb, when they have in-stores.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hahaha, JINX! i just said pretty much the same below.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Truth! That's why I file everything alphabetically by FIRST LETTER OF ARTISTS NAME ie ABC, The Album Leaf, Annie, Annie Lennox, The Auteurs. Perfect system established by long-gone chain Andy's Records.