This was all before we had a local Jessops, Virgin Megastore and HMV though, and (e.g.) Boots music range slowly degenerated to a single pitiful rack of CDs before disappearing. In fact, looking back, they were almost like a mini department store back then. They even sold homeware and electronics like TVs and hifis. They even had their own-brand equipment(!). beer not software!) and equipment there too- I'm sure they were still selling that well into the nineties. My Dad even used to buy his home brew kits (i.e. gimmicky camera filters I thought looked cool but couldn't afford nor use with my Instamatic(!)) My local branch (e.g.) also had a good range of both blank and pre-recorded cassettes in the early 80s, alongside more photo stuff (e.g. "I was starting to wonder if my memories of the 'lotions and potions' retailer selling computers was made up, its so different from what they normally sell."īoots used to sell a lot wider range of products in general back then.
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