Camera retailer Jessops goes into administration: Hull and Beverley jobs at risk

“Retail shops are still being built, so there must be people who still want actual physical stores. In Leeds they are opening a new £350m shopping centre. And they are getting £13.6m to upgrade their train station.

Maybe those in charge here in Hull, should get their 1st class train tickets and go and see how it is done properly in Leeds. Alternatively, as Hull is dying, when Lord Heseltine gets his penny thought in, he can arrange for David Cameron to pay for those who are unemployed in Hull to relocate to Leeds, as we are all in it together.”

“by JayOnly
There's no point in having a shop of any kind these days. I do ALL my shopping on line

Take the time to have a good look for the complaints dept on any of the online retailers and you will find they purposely dont exist for a reason so you c'ant complain,yes they have a returns policy with strict guides on reasons why it can be returned but there will never be any one you can rant to face to face or show what the problem is all you can do is follow their insructions which can take weeks to process....Give me a shop assistant any day...........”

“AishaDelaney. Download Adfender or Ad muncher. Both free programs, both kill off unwanted adverts, and helps pages load faster.”

“Lookie here, as Hull City go marching onwards to Premiership, local lingerie store GWENAP is a fine example of a business adapting. Only the other night he was in this rag telling how his Prinny Ave business has slowly gone down hill with the advent of the internet shopper. While he is still considering opening another shop further down the road, at least he seems to have enough sense to appreciate the new world happening around him and is trying and leap aboard the online bandwagon. Good luck to him.
One good reason he might think opening another shop is worthwhile; the name has value and, in Hull at least, has always been a 'high profile' curiosity and seen as a shop of beauty, fun and character.”

“In a genaration where our children spend best part of their lives playing online games or sat infront of a electronic device socialising with freinds on faceblob/tweeter etc do we not despair at the lack of physical exercise that this young generation are not getting?,do we not feel sorry for them and constantly compare our youth of running and playing outside,chasing around in the parks and playing street games to theirs!!!!...Yet we are becoming happy and content to do the same when it comes to shopping online because its easy and most probably cheaper to do so....This is why I like to get out,get away from the great modern ways of online living/communicating/shopping etc,this is why I purposely dont subscribe to the popular social networking beasts,am I realy "sad" as I am told by my kids and the younger generation for not doing so?...............If someone wants to communicate with me they can call me on a phone or even knock on my door and talk with me face to face,I use the the electronic world for what its there for but I dont let it rule/control/run/dictate my life and I'm happy to step away from it and live the life I knew before the internet took control of our lives.....The point I'm trying to get across is that the invention of the cyber world has taken over our lives and is also destroying our lives...”

“The local councils should bear some of the blame for this. Hull City centre, for example, is not a shopper-friendly place. Insufficient parking space, coupled with what seems to be an army of parking enforcement staff just waiting for you to stray a minute over your allotted time deters people (me, anyway) from venturing into the centre of town.
This, coupled with unreliable public transport, awful traffic planning and what seems to be a take-over by charity shops and pound shops, makes internet shopping a lot more appealing.
I can order in the afternoon from Amazon and have it delivered the following morning for less than it would cost me in petrol and parking, without the hassle.”

“There's no point in having a shop of any kind these days. I do ALL my shopping on line. I can't even remember the last time I went on a bus into the town centre; a taxi to the pub, maybe? Any electrical stuff I used to visit Argos or Comet to see / touch the goods, then go home and order from the Net...probably Amazon, the tax dodger. I couldn't give a monkey's about their tax position, I go where it cheapest. If Jessop et al can't adjust, they'll sink.
I bought a Dyson cleaner on line £60 cheaper than in the Comet shop. That kind of business sense makes me wonder if they deserve to be in business at all.
Anyone thinking a setting up a business, these days, just has to concentrate on the online sales...you wait, it won't be long before the council want their poll tax off the online business too. Ain't life a *****h”

“So many high st retailers going out of buisness in favour of online sales buying,towns are going to become ghost towns before to long and people will never leave their homes for anything.....Personally I like finding what I want in a shop that way you get to see/feel/try your products,and even the chance for a face to face haggle but dont get me wrong I do buy online but just like to balance things a little.”

“I'll mirror that. There are fewer a places you can get specialist knowledge on the high street these days. I have purchased a few things in store with them recently and very happy with customer service. Sad news.”

“Those sodding adverts in the middle of the articles are getting on my ****.”