That could be said for 80% of shops, they are all in the boohoo's. No one is buying unessential items any more. A sign of the atmosphere we are in at present, not to indulge. It's best to pay down mortgage, it's a dog eat dog situation we are in, which does not look good for the longer term.
We have a govt; which further wants to downgrade wages and put more pressure on small business, so something has to give, and that happens to be retail.

Great news. The ABC would have run their shops like their stations. Over staffed, by over paid dills, & funded by the poor bl**dy tax payer. It is a good sign that they are cutting a little waste.

Now if we can force them to get rid of all staff on over $100,000 a year, we will be starting to get some where.

I love the ABC shops and am so sorry to see them go.
It's the only place as someone stated where you
can buy Humpty Dumpty.

I'm not that into online shopping.
I prefer to feel, and touch, before I buy.
Of course TVSN is another story - especially
Kellys Kloset Kaftans - so gorgeous!

Hasbeen You would be a hatchet man just like Abbott. How many have ABC shops given jobs to. Online stores only have a fraction of employees.
There is not enough jobs around now, without penny pinching.

It all adds up to longer dole queues. So who wins.

I also like to browse through the ABC Shop. The staff are always most helpful with advice on a particular DVD or Book I might enquire about. Moreover I feel comfortable having a brief chat with them, usually about some no account matter ? Yes indeed I will miss them when they close.

The online ABC shop had no reason to exist, that's why it failed.

I can go to my local JB Hi-Fi and there's a whole aisle of ABC/BBC DVDs.

I could also buy them from a number of other online DVD stores that also sell 1000's of other titles ABC don't have.

Online only works it you have a huge range or a hard-to-find or luxury niche specialty.
ABC had neither.