Consumer electronics retail hell
Shopping with Mrs Tosh for a new digital camera over the weekend was a reminder of just how dreadful offline gadget hunting is. The requirement was a digital camera for less than £100, and around 3 megapixels or better. Look online, and the task seems pretty simple. In bricks ‘n’ mortar world, it’s quite hard. John Lewis seemed uninterested in selling something for less than £200.
Dixons - surely a definition of hell, with some strident beep echoing round the store every ten seconds and a weary collection of merchandise - was utterly useless (Can anyone tell me how, exactly, Dixons prospers? Parent company DSG International announces interim results on January 18, and I’ll be very interested to see if - in today’s testing high street environment - they show any signs of suffering from the dire, dire shopping experience they offer).
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