DVD: Supermarket Price War

[MovieLover12]

This is very worrying, if not the end of the normal process of retail. The problem of offers on DVDs started in other entertainment outlets such as HMV and WHSmiths. By cutting prices on DVDs and selling them for less, retailers have enabled consumers to buy titles in bulk, threatening the profit margin for those in smaller businesses who are now either struggling to make ends meet or are closed down. The supermarkets pricing their own DVDs have led each other to compete, but has now gone into a state of semi violence and vendetta.



We, the consumers benefit from these price wars as we get cheaper goods, but that is now all we expect. The floodgates cannot be closed. If the markets revert DVD prices to what they were 4 years ago then people would walk away from the supermarkets. Cheaper DVDs means less profit, means more offers, mean more sales, means more in the home, means a lesser product. Now DVD has gone into a meltdown stage, where nearly everything is being reissued. You've seen the shelves they are full.



What do others think: Has DVD gone too far?

[batman]

It's called the free market economic system. It happens with many different products, not just dvds. Books are sold in a similar way since the ending of the 'net book agreement'. People buy food in bulk from supermarkets rather than from local shops. The reason dvd shelves are full is because they do charge too much in shops such as HMV. A £4 bargain in HMV can usually be found for £2 in Tesco or £1 online. It's the way of the world as they say. I can't say, however, that I am aware of this causing outbreaks of 'violence and vendetta'.

[MovieLover12]

I mean't the supermarkets threatening suppliers for stock for their buy price not the supplier sell price. I have often brought old movies off HMV and WHSmith online sites for £10 each and not from Amazon or E Bay because of the accusations made by forum members about a econd hand one being sold as new.



The free market system. Does this allow a supermarket to have a stranglehold on income and building space?

[batman]

name='MovieLover12']

The free market system. Does this allow a supermarket to have a stranglehold on income and building space?

If they have the money and the 'clout' yes. We used to have a great little local shop .... it's still going except it's now called Tesco Metro or something similar.

[MovieLover12]

£1 in every £8 Tesco get. Britains number 1 supermarket just keep going up and up.



Now comes my part to buy shares, and I don't mean a few hundred or a few grand. They are doing well, I should too by investing. Oh and everyone, this is how to beat any low incomes or money worries you may have. Invest in the biggesr source - may you either get rich or get well off.