Fopp closes all its stores

[nmg]

Nooooooooo!

Where will I get my impulse-buying-of-cheap-CDs fix now?

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I KNOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!

Hey we really need to meet up. Not around or Friday drinks today. How about lunch next week, Mon or Tues?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Monday would be good. What time?

[tlrmx.org (from livejournal.com)]

That explains why they weren't able to take my credit card and why they were just randomly price-reducing things while I took them off shelves on Saturday. I think I bought four CDs and two DVDs for about £30.

If the company really can't pay its employees is there some statutory cover for that? Or do they just lose out on a month's pay. Seems like the sort of thing you'd know.

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Oh, that explains all the weird opening and closing this last week. That's a disaster, though. I liked succumbing to that particular lunchtime temptation...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

12.30?
How about the Stile for a change??

[ah-see-argh.livejournal.com]

Reasonably Sound
Condescending link to the first hit from google. (http://www.insolvencyhelpline.co.uk/ltd-companies/what-happens-to-your-employees.htm)

Since they aren't four months behind on pay they won't even be preferred creditors. This puts me in mind of when Claims Direct Realised its Karma closed down, and the employees simply turned up and looted the offices.

But they can apply to the DTI for statutory redundancy pay, which is a far better deal than a lot of pension contributors got.

As for impulse buying of CDs? Well the market in SUSU will reopen this autumn... and I hate to say it but I found a lot of discs cheaper at HMV.

post mortem conducted elsewhere

[coffeeandtv0.livejournal.com]

I think Bath's economy will collapse, but its students will no longer be bankrupt.

- Rob

[nmg.livejournal.com]

The Bath Fopp was one of the better ones. Southampton has two branches of Fopp, neither of which are very good.

I'll miss the odd stuff that the Bath Fopp stocked; the sort of stuff that you don't know you need until you see it (like a CD of songs about nuclear war from the 1950s-1960s, for example).

[nmg.livejournal.com]

As for impulse buying of CDs? Well the market in SUSU will reopen this autumn... and I hate to say it but I found a lot of discs cheaper at HMV.

The market in SUSU is pretty poor, both that for CDs and that for books (especially that for books).

[coffeeandtv0.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to look that up now, you realise. You never saw the "other" Fopp on Avon St. did you? That was a great place - cavernous and full of obscure Amsterdam Hardcore DJ mixes and suchlike...

- Rob

[abrinsky.livejournal.com]

A very sad day. We have been donating money to them (for shiny disks) since they opened their first southern store (about ten years ago?), a tiny shop in Leamington which you soon could not get into on a Saturday afternoon due to the number of people. Will be very much missed as nothing is comparable.

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Indeed, dammit. I was going to pop in on Monday and see if they had the Indelicates' latest single, too. I didn't know about this until I walked up Park Street and noticed they were closed this afternoon (with suspicious "cash only" signs in the window) and then accidentally tripped over the story while browsing later.

Arse. They were good, they were.