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Originally Posted by danielf
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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Not really, Supermarkets like Tesco have been steadily eroding the market of the box shifting, but non specialist electronics store. You also have increased presence of more specialist retailers like Richer Sounds that certainly in Sound and Vision have far excelled the Comet / Currys and Supermarkets. And of course retailers with perceived quality like John Lewis have also been moving into the market.
I find it interesting that where for a while the Dixons group were opening separate PC world stores to their Currys chain, the majority of them now seem to be combined PC World / Currys outlets. They seem to at least be trying to evolve.
Comet stagnated and couldn't update themselves to compete with either modern box shifting retail or internet, yet were too bloated to be seen as specialist. Staff are unfortunately the losers as management failed to manage.