Re: Maplin stores
Whenever a shop closes the usual pundits pop up and say 'online sales have done this'. There is of course an element of truth in this, but in some cases it is not that people prefer to buy online but that they have found it impossible to buy on the High Street. Lots of items which we know are made are either not stocked or poorly stocked in shops, and in most cases nowadays you cannot get any useful advice in a shop. I would like to look and feel something in a shop, weigh up whether it will do the job I have in mind, and ask the shopkeeper what he knows about it (beyond merely reading the sales tag - which is what happened in PC World). Maybe someone should re-open some Maplins, but run like John Lewis rather than Woolworths?
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