![]() ![]() I summary, the only accurate thing to say about B&M stores pulling out of the market is that they cannot make money off it or they cannot draw enough people into the stores to make other purchases, its all about money. If digital downloads can offer greater quality in metadata, extras, and sound then maybe. New releases are coming out on CD, vinyl, digital, the market will sort that out. Vinyl is back and everyone said it was dead. Getting back to the CD’s becoming nonexistent, in stores maybe, but we have a long while to go before that may happen. I usually do not by from amazon unless it makes sense. Now that competition is gone amazons prices generally reflect list price with some amount of game playing on price. ![]() Its very hard for a B&M store to up against a internet store when there is limited value in paying a higher price. The price of CD’s at a retail store could be very high compared to amazon, the same goes for many other products, people would go to a store to look at something then buy it on the internet. When amazon started selling CD’s years ago they had wonderful prices on many of their CD’s also the RIAA was cracking down on music sharing sites. The cost/overhead of “brick & mortar” stores is huge, in comparison to a automated warehouse such as amazon. For the first reason you can look to the internet, amazon drove many or most of the music retail stores out of business. Note the 2 completely different reasons, selling and drawing customers. Retailers (here in the US) are stopping stocking and selling what does not move fast or what does not draw people into the stores. We can all site news releases like to support a point of view but people need to look closer at “why” Retailers are removing music from their shelves. ![]()
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