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Brian Gaff wrote:
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.

Maplin - when they were a serious electronics supplier - were at the
forefront of fast mail order. First by phone and then via their website.

But before that, they had a high street presence. Perhaps at the poor end
of the street, but there nevertheless.

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