Comet Collapse.
 

I got an e-mail from our corporate discount scheme today about Comet.


Seems they are on the brink of collapse.

Re: Comet Collapse.
 

Yep it's been all over the bbc news this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20164228

Re: Comet Collapse.
 

It's been on the cards for a while sadly. Our local Comet has looked like it's been in the middle of a clearance sale for ages.

Re: Comet Collapse.
 

They were bought for £2 a couple of years back so not really much of a surprise. I look at this as their own fault for buying out the competition without improving on anything over the years, it's much like the whole GAME debacle.

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I noticed the same when I went into my local store a couple of weeks ago, ended up going to the Pc Ŵorld/Currys superstore instead.

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l remember us buying a washing machine from them and we asked for it to be plumbed in and then 2 days later after it was plumbed in we had a flood in the kitchen due to their incompetence and yet they refused to pay any compensation even though it was quite clearly their fault.

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Not much of a step up there lol. ;)

Re: Comet Collapse.
 

I have never bought anything from Comet but I did check out the Comet store in Kettering some 20 odd years ago.

Sadly it looked just as you describe. :(

So their demise is no big surprise to me. The only surprise is they lasted for so long.

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Good Riddance..... rubbish store is rubbish. :td:

very unpleasant for the employees,though.

Re: Comet Collapse.
 

O2 will be happy as they will not have to offer staff discounts

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So that pretty much leaves the Dixons group with the entire UK electronics market to itself? That's got to be bad news for the consumer.

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There have been unsolicited bids to OpCapita for the company caused ironically by rising sales which has caused the suppliers to get a bit twitchy and insist on payment up front for stock so i doubt that comet will disappear just be a lot smaller and part of another group

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most of these stores are in out of town shopping centres not the high street. Just being doubly pedantic lol

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Comet, Dixons, Currys. Get rid of them all.

Stopped shopping there many years ago.

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the one near me looks like a charity shop



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