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Re: [LUG] Amazon Music downloads

 

Alan / Rob

Many thanks: finally found the CD at a store in Exeter where I can collect it in 
time for Christmas.

The problem was really two fold

1/ I did not want to install the *deb file, although I may have had to but was saved 
and I can get a physical CD.

2/ The music was a classical piece and most of the common sites were sold out. This 
APPEARS to be a function of the collapse of Woolworths who apparently were behind 
quite a lot of the physical distribution of music CDs. As they are now bankrupt, 
quite a few stores have not been able to free the inventory from Woolworths or set 
up alternative distribution from the music companies.

Going on from the bankruptcy of Woolworths I pass on an article in the Sunday Times 
this morning. Not sure how true it is but no doubt we will find out soon enough

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article5375478.ece

Quote

    UP to 15 national retail chains are predicted to go bust before the middle
    of January, forcing thousands more shopworkers onto the dole.

    The prediction came from insolvency expert Begbies Traynor as well-known
    retail chains clamour to sell enough goods to meet their quarterly rent
    payments on Christmas Day. Nick Hood, partner at Begbies Traynor, said: “I
    would not be surprised if between 10 and 15 national and regional chains
    collapsed before the middle of January.”

    Hood refused to name specific store groups, but this weekend it emerged
    that The Officers Club, a 150-strong national menswear chain, had been put
    up for distressed sale through KPMG, while the specialist tea retailer,
    Whittards, and music store Zavvi remained on the critical list. 

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