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As many of you know, I’ve been tracking the fate of Guitar Center for more than two years now, my mad, toothless Ahab against the White Whale of its private equity-blooded, retail Leviathan. When, oh when, shall it finally wash up bloated on the beach, a thousand harpoons from inconsequential bloggers, disgruntled former employees, and nonplussed customers festooning it from …
Man, when you look at the data, you see just how quickly e-commerce has been evolving just in the past few years.
Some of my most popular material of late has been about musical instrument retail, though focused on a single company and its effect on the marketplace. Nearly a million readers later, I have been hoping to do a much more thorough job of showing just why MI retail is undergoing a revolution, one with ample shocks for all players. I …
As a professional bassist, I buy a lot of musical gear. Let me highlight that, I buy as much musical gear as I possibly can, more than is reasonable or smart. As such, I patronize music stores – all kinds. I love ’em. There is no better therapy than OPG – Other People’s Guitars. One of the places I inhabit …
Ever been to the Champs-Elysées in Paris? It’s really quite nice! There are a lot of luxury shops there too – Louis Vuitton, car companies, that kind of thing. Just in case you were wondering what the tangible effects of wealth concentration really were, commercial rent on the Champs-Elysées, flooded with Chinese and Korean tourists looking for 10,000 euro handbags, …