£3 and a bargain!
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
FOPP BUY 67 MUSIC ZONE STORESWell, a bit of good news from the world of music retail. Glasgow based Fopp yesterday announced it was buying 67 of the stores formerly owned by its rival Music Zone, making them, over night, the biggest independent music retailer in the UK.
As previously reported, Music Zone went into administration earlier this year, and formally closed down the whole of its 100+ chain on 25 Jan after a buyer for the company could not be found. Fopp will now take on 67 of Music Zone's stores, saving some 775 jobs that had been lost when Music Zone ceased trading. The deal sees Fopp triple the size of its UK wide empire, going from 35 stores to over 100.
Confirming the deal, Music Zone's administrator, Bill Dawson of Deloitte, told reporters: "We are pleased with the disposal to Fopp, and wish them every success in the future. This represents a much better outcome for creditors and other stakeholders than a piecemeal disposal".
source:http://www.cmumusicnetwork.co.uk/daily/index.html
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Fopp previously had 35 stores + 67 acquired Music Zone store locations = 102 stores
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Fopp Shopshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fopp_%28retailer%29
if Fopp can have shops in smaller towns such as Andover, Bedford, Horsham why not Maidenhead?
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
46 + 67 = 113 stores
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
If there isn't a Fopp Shop already there = likely to become a Fopp
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I think Fopp have their admin offices above the Chiswick branch. Not sure if that makes it more or less likely that they will relocate.
― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
= more work for the Sign Makers !
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a very shut MVC here.
Guess it's not going to be a Fopp in the next 3 days.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Maidenhead = small town, hip motherfucker population = 1 (me)
Hang on, I'm forgetting to factor in DVD sales.
Where's my board rubber?
Maidenhead = small town, DVD buying population = several million, including Rolf Harris and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
QED. I shall start camping out now.
They are going to get so sick of me.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link
The main reason I didn't think they would come is because there is already a Fopp in Reading, which is "just down the road".
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― treefell (treefell), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
That bird with the dyed red hair in the TCR shop is a bit arsey when you take stuff back under the popular "suck it and see" policy.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D., Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff W, Thursday, 22 March 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Today, seen and/or bought!
The Sly/Family Stone remasters = £5
Also, Metal Machine Music = £5
go deh!
― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Gah, this thread always resurfaces when I have £0.00
― braveclub, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
The Maidenhead Music Zone/Fopp hybrid has now closed completely.
I would like SHUT IT! for a pound.
― PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ah right, won't go to Maidenhead then.
I'll be visiting the Fopp in Charing cross on Friday. What's good in there at the mo?
― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (£5).
I don't know if that's a good deal, but I might get it if it's still there next time I go in.
― PJ Miller, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Um, today is Friday...
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I meant friday next week.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
>> The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (£5).
It is. Get it. I know I will next week!
I wouldn't bother with their other albums though (Bloodbrothers isn't bad but not great either).
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Exeter's Musiczone is definitely becoming a Fopp; all the POS stuff has changed, the price points, the silly genre sections, etcetera, just not the sign above the door yet.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
:'( Couldn't find Dictators CD in TCR Fopp...
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I might have been hallucinating. I hallucinated it on their PUNK display rack though. Perhaps it was THE DEAD BOYS.
― PJ Miller, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I have checked though and you can get it for very cheap off the internet if you don't mind waiting for it to come from the colonies.