Hi, any truth in the rumour that B&O are to pull out of Scotland? I've heard from a good source that two of the 5 outlets are to close on xmas eve. If so what does this mean for the UK?
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B&O to abandon Scotland...?
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I'd be surprised. I used to live in Edinburgh and there's a lot of disposable income around there. The Scottish government is based there, financial capital of Scotland etc etc. Maybe some of the smaller units may close, but I doubt Edinburgh and Glasgow, surely?
Why would B&O need a store in, say, the small town of Yarm (no-one ever is ever in the store!), yet not in the capital city of Scotland?
B&O will not beat any hasty retreats from any part of the UK !! If a store closes, it's because it's not viable and cannot now or would not be able to in future survive the economic downturn. If B&O of The Outer Hebrides could turn over £2m a year, i doubt B&O would care very much where the Outer Hebrides were!!
I don't think it's a Scottish thing, and as moxxey rightly points out, there's plenty of money up there if you look around..
Lee
How many outlets are there in the UK now ? And is that up or down on last year ?
It was a shame that the Durham shop closed but then I suppose they assumed that if you could afford a BeooVision, you could afford the petrol or a train ticket to get to Newcastle, which only 15-20 minutes or so away. Still, I did buy a few things when I was a student at Durham and I probably became hooked on B&O largely because I was given such great service, even though they knew I was never going to be spending as much as others.
If this rumour is true, and from what I have seen I suspect it may be so, then it is likely to be the smaller town outlets that close rather than the ones in the large cities like Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Didn't stop them closing down Brighton either.....hardly a lack of disposable income there...
Frankly I would be surprised if Scotland were to become B&O'less.
There is still plenty of money "up north" and by that I mean real up north not yorkshire which we all know is "down South".
The store in Aberdeen, for example, has lots of oil exec's to service and will do so for the next 20-30 years and the exec's get paid no matter what the price of oil.
The Durham store closing was because, I believe, the dealership was trying to push their higher spending customers towards the new flagship store in Newcastle. They looked at selling only pre-owned, a la Lifestyle AV, from the Durham store but I believe that was frowned upon from B&O uk.
We went down to perth today to shop (slightly more cosmoploiton than inverness......slightly!) and the store was closed :-(, am currently emailing from my laptop in a coffee shop (THAT is how up to date and techie Beoworld is, news to your doorstep faster than Sly News) much to my disappointment and the window had no stock at all in it, so either a long holiday or Perth is one of the ones going, or gone.
BS
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