On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:47:02 +0000, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:39:46 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Maplins big mistake was to open high street stores. They obviously did
not look at history and see what happened to Tandy. Tandy used to sell
a lot of good stuff. I bought one of their cassette decks and it was
the best one I ever owned. dead now of course as it actually wore out
in the end.
However you could buy almost anything electronic based there,
including
transistors and toys.
The high rents and rates on high streets scuppered it and this and the
Internet scuppered Maplin as well aas to some extent Comet who hoped
that selling large appliances would be lucrative of course.
Brian

They had a sweet deal pre-internet of *selling* their catalogue too. But
it was invaluable with spec sheets and the like.

They were still selling it recently.

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