Maplins bankrupt sale
Maplins bankrupt sale
I was in my local maplins in streatham seems like now the Alkaline own brand batterys eg AA, are all 70% off - I suppose they have so many of them
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And probably still 40% more than Amazon...
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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A combination of internet-based competition and (presumably) poor management has killed that business.
A few months ago I visited my local store and fund that they have revamped it so that it was full of disco mirror balls and such like. Of the kind of stuff I wanted to buy there was little sign, and what there was seemed to be very expensive.
For example I wanted some LEDs on a flexible strip a little while ago, and discovered that I could buy a length of strip 5m long (far more than I actually needed) on t'interweb or something similar in Maplins (with a deal more difficulty, because their paper catalogue no longer existed and their website was not very good) a very short length (0.5m I think, which wasn't quite enough). I reckoned it might be worth paying x5 or x10 for being able to source it locally and see it before I bought it. But the cost differential was actually closer to x100 per LED. I baulked at that.
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A few months ago I visited my local store and fund that they have revamped it so that it was full of disco mirror balls and such like. Of the kind of stuff I wanted to buy there was little sign, and what there was seemed to be very expensive.
For example I wanted some LEDs on a flexible strip a little while ago, and discovered that I could buy a length of strip 5m long (far more than I actually needed) on t'interweb or something similar in Maplins (with a deal more difficulty, because their paper catalogue no longer existed and their website was not very good) a very short length (0.5m I think, which wasn't quite enough). I reckoned it might be worth paying x5 or x10 for being able to source it locally and see it before I bought it. But the cost differential was actually closer to x100 per LED. I baulked at that.
cheers
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Brucey wrote:A combination of internet-based competition and (presumably) poor management has killed that business.
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Though they did have online shopping, delivery, etc. so I'd just say the poor management (product, price, failing to fully develop the internet side, etc.).
Ian
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it reminds me a bit of businesses like Kodak. It wasn't that they didn't try and embrace digital photography, it is just that they tried to embrace it as if it were more like wet film photography than it actually was, and they had a large vested interest in their old business model, like a millstone around their necks.
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Brucey wrote:it reminds me a bit of businesses like Kodak. It wasn't that they didn't try and embrace digital photography, it is just that they tried to embrace it as if it were more like wet film photography than it actually was, and they had a large vested interest in their old business model, like a millstone around their necks.
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Also for me a significant factor is that I don't buy than many e.g. overpriced disco mirror balls. So I can't even be bothered to look at their sell-off sales. The few cables (e.g. network cables) I have purchased from them were rather overpriced (but wanted immediately) and were complete rubbish. So I completely gave up on them and I guess I was not alone and I see the failure being management not recognising what was happening or failing to respond (hence my putting the blame of management).
Ian
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Woolworths, British Home Stores, Focus Do it All, and now Homebase.
Maplins has gone the same way and they won't be the last.
Maplins has gone the same way and they won't be the last.
Mick F. Cornwall
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It were all drones last time i went.
And they had none of the lecky bits that i wanted.
And they had none of the lecky bits that i wanted.
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Mick F wrote:Woolworths, British Home Stores, Focus Do it All, and now Homebase.
Maplins has gone the same way and they won't be the last.
Has Homebase gone bust? Not heard about that one.
Toys R Us no more, and CarpetRight in trouble too.
Sherwood CC and Notts CTC.
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TrevA wrote:.....
Has Homebase gone bust? Not heard about that one.
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My understanding (last I've seen) is that they are doing disastrously but mainly because Bunnings/Wesfarmers (by their own admission) have made a complete mess since purchasing the chain. Not sure if it's bad enough to go bust but likely they will be closing a fair number of stores. But I think more botched management than the challenges facing retailers in the UK.
Ian
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regarding challenges to retail, the modern way is for folks to be on contracts which don't stipulate fixed hours per se (i.e. in order to climb the greasy pole you have to basically exploit yourself...). Since they are at home so infrequently and unable to escape from work they do their shipping online and have it delivered to their workplace.
One of my chums works in a group of buildings that is shared between several hundred people who work for several different businesses. Amazon sends two trucks a day to those offices, containing all the personal purchases of the staff. Basically that is about two tonnes of stuff a day which is no longer sold by the local retail trade.
It is also about two tonnes a day of expensive landfill, a few years down the line, too....
cheers
One of my chums works in a group of buildings that is shared between several hundred people who work for several different businesses. Amazon sends two trucks a day to those offices, containing all the personal purchases of the staff. Basically that is about two tonnes of stuff a day which is no longer sold by the local retail trade.
It is also about two tonnes a day of expensive landfill, a few years down the line, too....
cheers
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I would not like to he the person who has to deliver it up and down the offices all 2 tonnes of it
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Brucey wrote:regarding challenges to retail, the modern way is for folks to be on contracts which don't stipulate fixed hours per se (i.e. in order to climb the greasy pole you have to basically exploit yourself...). Since they are at home so infrequently and unable to escape from work they do their shipping online and have it delivered to their workplace.
One of my chums works in a group of buildings that is shared between several hundred people who work for several different businesses. Amazon sends two trucks a day to those offices, containing all the personal purchases of the staff. Basically that is about two tonnes of stuff a day which is no longer sold by the local retail trade.
It is also about two tonnes a day of expensive landfill, a few years down the line, too....
cheers
I saw somewhere the other day that a big organisation ( forget which, but I think it was in London) has been so overwhelmed by staff internet purchase deliveries to their building, that the dozens of vans now deliver to a collection point in the suburbs, and one or two vans only then redeliver the accumulation to the HQ/staff.
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I get told off for buying off amazon. I personally feel it's up to governments to effectively tax companies! I did visit my very local-to-where-I-work branch of Maplins & bought a motion sensor & LED lamp for my Philips Hue system - only 20% off though! They will be missed!
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[XAP]Bob wrote:And probably still 40% more than Amazon...
24 alkaline AA for £3?
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-extra-long-life-alkaline-aa-batteries-24-pack-n78hq
100 for £9
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-extra-long-life-aa-alkaline-battery-100-pack-n53el
24 panasonic for £5
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/panasonic-pro-power-premium-alkaline-aa-batteries-24-pack-n26na
https://www.maplin.co.uk/c/batteries/non-rechargeable-batteries/aa-batteries
Maplin 15,600mAh Power Bank £15
https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-15600mah-power-bank-n32ee
They have lots of things like washer sets going cheap
https://www.maplin.co.uk/c/household-diy/diy/fixings/nut-bolts-washers