Musica shuts down

Inevitable unfortunately. Life is constantly changing. We have to adapt or die.

Like me, sitting with R50m in commercial property that is standing empty due to most tenants opting more for WFH and giving up office space. Quite te conundrum as available options are limited.
 
RedViking said:
I wonder where they guy that has been working there the past 15 year work now.
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Clicks...

In the stores which have been closed since September 2020, the Musica staff have been absorbed into the Clicks Group’s expanding health and beauty store network.
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Yup the one in Clearwater now seems to be an arcade.
 
RedViking said:
One of those dark lit ones or the modern ones?
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That's a memory.

The Magic Company near me when I was a teen had a whole bunch of concerned parents lobbying against it. This one had pool tables in the back, dimly lit and all kinds of shenanigans were going on back there. They eventually instituted an age restriction to go play pool and then removed it altogether.
 
RedViking said:
I wondered how Incredible Connection managed to stay open.
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no idea actually, I did walk past it and it was pretty desolate. I mean the sales people were almost like vultures coming closest to the door.
 
Anyone remember the MASSIVE arcade they had in Westgate? Spent all my pocket money there. When the tokens were still R1 each.
 
RedViking said:
I wondered how Incredible Connection managed to stay open.
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I think they already started scaling down their stores pre-pandemic and hold a lot less stock than they used to.
Also Dion wired closed so perhaps a bit more breathing space in the market ?

The other thing they have is a PC repair business which would drive traffic and perhaps that is making the difference now.
 
RedViking said:
That is not IC. At IC they are all behind the counter playing on their phones, couldn't care less about anyone walking in or out.
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For me that was hifi Corp :) maybe lockdown has made the IC guys a bit more thirsty
 
Nerfherder said:
I think they already started scaling down their stores pre-pandemic and hold a lot less stock than they used to.
Also Dion wired closed so perhaps a bit more breathing space in the market ?

The other thing they have is a PC repair business which would drive traffic and perhaps that is making the difference now.
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Probably same as Matrix then. Although at least IC still have hardware in theirs stores. Matrix only have empty shelves.
 
RedViking said:
That is not IC. At IC they are all behind the counter playing on their phones, couldn't care less about anyone walking in or out.
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And absolutely clueless as to the products they sell:

So I see this vinyl-record-to- MP3-converter thingy on display in the window and ask the salesman whether it could play seven singles as well as LPs as there was no mention of it on the outside of the box that is visible.
"What's a seven single", he asks.
Since he seemed to know something about an LP record, I replied: "That vinyl record that's slightly larger than a CD and plays at 45rpm".

He had no idea, and did not even offer to get advice from anyone else, even his manager perhaps, the little pipsqueak-that-thinks-he-knows-it-all.

So I turned around and walked out - never even looked at getting that device again (Coda.fm wink-wink) and have never been back to any of their branches ever since.
 
Got some DVDs (Big Bang series) at Brooklyn, but they have also closed now. The seemed to lose their way in the new SA and Covid was the final straw. Makro and Pick & Pay had already closed their CD and DVD sections like two years previously. They tried to diversify with all kinds gadgets etc but it was clear they were going down. Good news for the network operators.
 
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