Businesses going bust

[gilesbus1]

RE: Businesses going bust
Yes the VAT loophole is closing I have heard as a result Play.Com is to stop operating as it is in March and all of its Channel Islands based staff are to be made redundant and Play will be turned in a Market Place site.

Nothing seems though to stop Amazon's domination of the market how long before shops like the Works, Waterstones and WH Smitsh follow suit and call in the Receiver, and even on a distant scale publishers that Amazon doesn't stock or promote?

Though shops really don't help themsewlves I am not happy about having to pay a 1p Tax on rubbishy poor quality carrier bags at WH Smitsh that display their advert, the green tax business is a load of rubbish its an excuse for WH Smith to rake up the tills, if it was really serious about it, it would only sell cloth reusable bags. The situation at WH Smiths with thsi is disgusting and I often feel like complaining about it. Amazon doesn't charge for its packaging which is more substantial so why should WH Smith????

Then there is the issue of car parking charges and also the issue of openning hours, shops and town centres are not helping themselves if they want to remain in business.

Then if we want to look further at it, did HMV care when they drove independent record shops to the wall in the 1960's - 1980's, and likewise did Waterstones care when it desimated the independent booksellers between 1984 and 2005???