{"id":1918,"date":"2007-05-08T21:01:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/05\/currysdixons_to\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:01:35","slug":"currysdixons_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/currysdixons_to\/","title":{"rendered":"Currys\/Dixons to Stop Stocking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><Fill In Your Defunct Product Here><br \/>\nI can&#8217;t believe the number of times that Dixons Stores Group can put out effectively the same press release, and still get the media lapping it up.<br \/>\nToday, it&#8217;s the shock-horror <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6634553.stm\">news<\/a> that they&#8217;re no longer going to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=e0b40890-459b-4e35-a2e8-16fe9a8781c7&#038;CatID=c7b3b0f4-c2c8-4c48-994f-1e57e444b9a9\">blank cassettes<\/a>. Are we going to get this same story every time DSG makes a decision about what products they&#8217;re going to stock?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve already had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=0a4d6f13-2f11-4b6f-9c71-7efabe5687bf&#038;CatID=c5221fe6-3643-4c13-bb84-4a0afbdcd76b\">VCRs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=4509f490-1746-4bc3-bc1f-6e98ac5148bb&#038;CatID=6d0b3a78-378d-4856-b88d-9452c30e31db\">Analogue Radios<\/a> (not remotely true as they still sell worldband radios as well as AM\/FM radios built into mini-systems), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=ab7b924b-2806-4fe6-92c6-276f01113c23&#038;CatID=6d0b3a78-378d-4856-b88d-9452c30e31db\">CRT televisions<\/a> (even though in many cases, they&#8217;re still better than their flatscreen equivalents), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=1cc576a4-c34a-485c-9131-a37a6f119bed&#038;CatID=31a9b6c7-3285-418d-91e1-acb7df3168c0\">35mm film cameras<\/a> (nobody&#8217;s making them much, so it&#8217;s moot) and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsgiplc.com\/layout.aspx?ID=f7b4a975-b8c5-4f60-ac1d-0378aa353a3b&#038;CatID=c7b3b0f4-c2c8-4c48-994f-1e57e444b9a9\">incandescent bulbs<\/a> (seriously &#8211; who goes to Currys to buy bulbs?). I expect I missed the LaserDisc, Disc Camera and Eight-track Cartridge announcements.<br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t reporting these releases the equivalent to building a feature from a press-released &#8220;poll?&#8221; Mabe Argos is missing a trick by not listing junked items between its catalogues.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just lazy journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe the number of times that Dixons Stores Group can put out effectively the same press release, and still get the media lapping it up. Today, it&#8217;s the shock-horror news that they&#8217;re no longer going to sell blank cassettes. Are we going to get this same story every time DSG makes a decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}