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Here's a nice story about how the owners went out of their way to get me a discontinued Caparison guitar I'd always wanted...
https://medium.com/fretboard/new-guitar-day-caparison-horus-m3-revive-series-a1842c670dff
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Top guys.
If you found a new baja tele for £499 posted or your local shop had one for £549.00 what do you do? support your local shop and lose £50 ?
In the 80's it was go to your local shop and buy what they had .Its not just guitar shops all local high streets have for sale ,to let ,closing down sale shops ,everyone is shopping on their laptop/phone ,or tablet
We are all guilty i'm afraid
Yet equally as a very small store, well over 60% of my business is now mail order and this week alone it is nigh on 100% and I hardly think such a business model, of mine, is the failing of the high street
I've been in the trade now for over 40 years and the last 15 years has changed so much - hardly recognisable from what I was taught by my dad and granddad - I spoke to another dealer a few days ago and he expressed thoughts about closing down his brass/woodwind dept, within his store - Not due to lack of turnover but due to the fact that it is only making around 8% - Factor the whole cost of running such a part of the business and it is a non starter - In short £80K profit on a 1 million pound turnover - pay 2/3 staff and nothing left in the kitty
15 years ago it was booming industry. Now I know of Partners who can't afford to have two kids because it means moving house. Ridiculous.
All music stores have to adopt to the new way of selling otherwise I'm afraid they won't survive :-(
If I could do anything now I'd train in food and drink and run my own place.
People want cheap, and they want it now.
We all scramble for cheap, cheap, cheap, and bemoan the lack of local shops, and fail to see the irony.
We all argue that stuff should be delivered free, complain about crap delivery drivers, and fail to see why one leads to the other.
You get what you pay for. You don't get what you don't pay for. Only then do you realise what you've lost.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Anyone who has checked something out in a shop, liked the item, then bought it cheaply online is part of the problem.
i do wonder if bemoaning the closure of high street shops is a bit like complaining about the disappearance of the blacksmith. The world is changing and we shop differently than we used to. The high street won’t disappear but it will change. Our town centre now has plenty of coffee shops, restaurants, nail bars, hairdressers, etc - essentially the things that internet shopping can’t provide. The town centre is still busy; it’s just busy with different things than it was a decade ago.