Very little when I had a look.


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On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:40:34 +0100, ARW
wrote:

Very little when I had a look.

Glasgow, St Enoch had a lot last time I visited.

On 4/4/2018 7:42 PM, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:40:34 +0100, ARW
wrote:

Very little when I had a look.

Glasgow, St Enoch had a lot last time I visited.

East Kilbride looking very empty ....

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On 4/4/2018 7:42 PM, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:40:34 +0100, ARW
wrote:

Very little when I had a look.

Glasgow, St Enoch had a lot last time I visited.

bring back RME ....

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On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:55:32 +0100, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
wrote:

On 4/4/2018 7:42 PM, Scott wrote:
On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:40:34 +0100, ARW
wrote:

Very little when I had a look.

Glasgow, St Enoch had a lot last time I visited.

bring back RME ....

In the Saltmarket? Memories.... 50 years or so ago, wandering around
RME, saucer in hand, on a Saturday afternoon.

"ARW" wrote in message
...
Very little when I had a look.

Strange.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

Although any real bargains may have been cherry picked

Their windows are plastered with two posters.

"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

But as newspaper articles have pointed out even at 20% off, a lot of their stuff is
cheaper elsewhere - with sellers who might be able to honour guarantees.

While if it really is "Everything Must Go" no clearance specialist or auction sales
would offer them anything anywhere near to 80% retail. So theyl'll have to move
on the 20%. off.


michael adams

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On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:00:13 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
"ARW" wrote in message
...
Very little when I had a look.

Strange.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

Although any real bargains may have been cherry picked

Their windows are plastered with two posters.

"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

But as newspaper articles have pointed out even at 20% off, a lot of their stuff is
cheaper elsewhere - with sellers who might be able to honour guarantees.

While if it really is "Everything Must Go" no clearance specialist or auction sales
would offer them anything anywhere near to 80% retail. So theyl'll have to move
on the 20%. off.


michael adams

that's true of nearly every 'everything must go' sale. Once once have I seen retail stuff all 90% off. A lot of it still wasn't worth buying.


NT

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On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 20:00:13 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
"ARW" wrote in message
...
Very little when I had a look.

Strange.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

Although any real bargains may have been cherry picked

Their windows are plastered with two posters.

"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

But as newspaper articles have pointed out even at 20% off, a lot of their stuff is
cheaper elsewhere - with sellers who might be able to honour guarantees.

While if it really is "Everything Must Go" no clearance specialist or auction sales
would offer them anything anywhere near to 80% retail. So theyl'll have to move
on the 20%. off.


michael adams

that's true of nearly every 'everything must go' sale. Once once have I seen retail
stuff all 90% off. A lot of it still wasn't worth buying.


NT

It may be that they're moving stock out of branches so they end up with maybe a few
regional
branches acting as clearance outlets with rock bottom prices.

This will then also make it more convenient for clearance people to make them an offer.


michael adams

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In article ,
"michael adams" writes:
It may be that they're moving stock out of branches so they end up with maybe a few
regional
branches acting as clearance outlets with rock bottom prices.

They won't sell it all. It's only worth keeping the sale going while
the revenue covers the cost of the staff and shop, and they have been
significantly more busy than normal during the sale so far, but that
will tail off as the saleable items go. When that threshold is crossed,
it's cheaper to throw the stuff away.

This will then also make it more convenient for clearance people to make them an offer.

The stuff in the shops would cost vastly more to handle than its
clearance value. Stuff still boxed in warehouse can probably be sold
at figures like 1% of value.

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scribeth thus
In article ,
"michael adams" writes:
It may be that they're moving stock out of branches so they end up with maybe
a few
regional
branches acting as clearance outlets with rock bottom prices.

They won't sell it all. It's only worth keeping the sale going while
the revenue covers the cost of the staff and shop, and they have been
significantly more busy than normal during the sale so far, but that
will tail off as the saleable items go. When that threshold is crossed,
it's cheaper to throw the stuff away.

This will then also make it more convenient for clearance people to make them
an offer.

The stuff in the shops would cost vastly more to handle than its
clearance value. Stuff still boxed in warehouse can probably be sold
at figures like 1% of value.


A bit sad to say but there nothing there I want now that i would have
bought when they were trading, as it were..
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tabbypurr wrote:

once have I seen retail stuff all 90% off. A lot of it still wasn't worth buying.

If I was the boss of CPC, I'd be worried about the proportion of
"maplin style tat" in stock/catalogues ...

On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 21:02:21 UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:
If I was the boss of CPC, I'd be worried about the proportion of
"maplin style tat" in stock/catalogues ...

People still buy "maplin style tat", they just don't buy it from Maplin. Just like Woolworths folded because they sold poundshop goods at Woolworths prices.

CPC have their industrial customer backing and they don't have an expensive shops network.

Owain

michael adams wrote:

ARW wrote:
Very little when I had a look.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

I've been in two; while buying what I went in for, I trawled the shelves
and didn't really see anything else worth buying.

Their windows are plastered with two posters.
"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

Different types of items were 10%, 20%, 40%

a lot of their stuff is cheaper elsewhere

yep

"Andy Burns" wrote in message
...
michael adams wrote:

ARW wrote:
Very little when I had a look.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

I've been in two; while buying what I went in for, I trawled the shelves and didn't
really see anything else worth buying.

Their windows are plastered with two posters.
"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

Different types of items were 10%, 20%, 40%

Yup. There's some stuff up to 60% off now.

But the big discounts seem to be mainly off things like rechargeable batteries
which I noticed were 40% off.

But they really are all over the place.

I went into the Hammersmith Branch this lunchtime. I noticed an Ion USB
turntable, this one

https://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ion-digit...c-centre-a38xn

£95.99

knocked down from a silly price of around £140 which I found hard to beleve
in the first place.


Anyway checking it out online it seems Amazon themselves, not marketplace
sellers are offering exactly the same turntable

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-LP-...o+Music+Centre

for £89.99

even undercuttiong other marketplace sellers.

So that even when poor Maplin are laid out on the canvas, breathing their last, and
unable
to offer any guarentees, and despite having paid all their taxes, wicked tax dodging
Jeff Bezos, with his maniacal laugh still can't resist putting the boot in.

Boooooooo ! Boooooooo!

Its almost enough to make a person boycott Amazon althogether.

Well almost.


michael adams

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On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 19:59:58 +0100, "michael adams"
wrote:


"ARW" wrote in message
...
Very little when I had a look.

Strange.

In three branches in West London I've looked in, they've still got plenty of stock.

Although any real bargains may have been cherry picked

Their windows are plastered with two posters.

"Up to 20% off" and "Everything Must Go".

But as newspaper articles have pointed out even at 20% off, a lot of their stuff is
cheaper elsewhere - with sellers who might be able to honour guarantees.

While if it really is "Everything Must Go" no clearance specialist or auction sales
would offer them anything anywhere near to 80% retail. So theyl'll have to move
on the 20%. off.

Glasgow, St Enoch now showing 'up to 60% off'.

On 04/04/2018 19:40, ARW wrote:
Very little when I had a look.


Even their reduced prices are more than you would pay on the
internet.

In article ,
ARW wrote:
Very little when I had a look.

I'd guess they've moved stock to shops where they think it will get the
best prices quickly.

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In article ,
ARW writes:
Very little when I had a look.

Farnborough still a lot, although there are also empty shelves.
I bought all their project boxes in certain sizes a couple of
weeks ago, and there were more there later, so looks like they are
getting stock in from the warehouse, or found it round the back.

Even more amazingly, I happened to suddenly want a 74HCT4060
IC and a crystal to go with it. Thought no chance because
a) they usually didn't have things like that in stock anyway, and
b) they've moved a load of their component drawers into the shop,
with a "buy the whole drawer set including components for £100".
However, they happened to still have both the parts I wanted in
drawers still behind the counter, and reduced to 12p each so I
took the two of each they had.

The Reading store still looked pretty normal a week after the sale
started, but I haven't looked more recently.

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
b) they've moved a load of their component drawers into the shop,
with a "buy the whole drawer set including components for £100".
However, they happened to still have both the parts I wanted in
drawers still behind the counter, and reduced to 12p each so I
took the two of each they had.

Are those the chests of about a dozen drawers, each about 3" high?
Kind of Snap-On style (but white)?

I hadn't really been paying attention but ours seems to have lost the
component counter some time in the last 15 years, meaning the entire
components stock is held in two of those.

Or does your still have a counter with a zillion staff-only drawers behind
it, and you mean one unit of those?

Theo

Theo wrote:

Are those the chests of about a dozen drawers, each about 3" high?
Kind of Snap-On style (but white)?

Where I've seen those type, they seem to hold small bagged items (such
as BNC/SMA/F connectors, not sure what else) they do have individual
components in bigger drawers/dividers behind the counter at the back.

In article ,
Theo writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
b) they've moved a load of their component drawers into the shop,
with a "buy the whole drawer set including components for £100".
However, they happened to still have both the parts I wanted in
drawers still behind the counter, and reduced to 12p each so I
took the two of each they had.

Are those the chests of about a dozen drawers, each about 3" high?
Kind of Snap-On style (but white)?

I hadn't really been paying attention but ours seems to have lost the
component counter some time in the last 15 years, meaning the entire
components stock is held in two of those.

Or does your still have a counter with a zillion staff-only drawers behind
it, and you mean one unit of those?

These were behind the component counter. There are still some there,
but others are now in the shop "buy the whole drawer unit and what's
in it." They have listed what's in it, but as a bundle where you
might use 1% of the contents, they were way too expensive. If they
had been Racco Professional drawer units, I would have bought partly
for those (I use them a lot at home), but they weren't - I didn't
recognise the style.

The Reading branch had already moved those components into large
drawer units in the store so you didn't need to ask staff (a bit
like Tandy/RadioShack used to do).

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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
These were behind the component counter. There are still some there,
but others are now in the shop "buy the whole drawer unit and what's
in it." They have listed what's in it, but as a bundle where you
might use 1% of the contents, they were way too expensive. If they
had been Racco Professional drawer units, I would have bought partly
for those (I use them a lot at home), but they weren't - I didn't
recognise the style.

Ah, I see what you mean. Was just curious because 100 quid isn't bad value
if it's something like this:
https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/tool-...inets/8335900/
which is roughly what the 'front of house' drawer chests are like.

I had a look through in case there's any components worth 'banking' just in
case, but there's not much to make it worthwhile over getting if on-demand
next day from Farnell/CPC if needed.

Theo

On Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:59:18 +0100, Theo wrote:

I had a look through in case there's any components worth 'banking' just
in case, but there's not much to make it worthwhile over getting if
on-demand next day from Farnell/CPC if needed.



Conrad (www.conrad.de) were very good indeed (and way better than Maplin)
when I lived in Germany. Perhaps they might ride to the rescue of the
nerds among us?



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