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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I remember encountering Fopp for the first time visiting byebyepride in Edinburgh and being STAGGERED by how cheap, friendly, un-like a normal record shop it was.

I think I bought too much from it over the years though - it was always a "£3? go on then" kind of a place and I've come to feel that's a crap way to buy music. That wasn't why I stopped going - a certain worthiness crept into their choice of £5 picks so I stopped finding stuff I wanted (lots of "ought to have" but really life's too short) also the Cambridge Circus place always seemed to play REMORSELESSLY miserable and offputting music.

I still really liked the Edinburgh ones whenever I went tho :(

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

you know what i blame? endless over-classification of the music. where the hell am i going to find, for example, Paul Simon:

classic rock
singer songwriter
pop

WHERE????? what is the problem with a to z by artist????

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Ha, jinx...