Villa shop in New St now closed

[cdbearsfan]

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[Nev]

Poor move by the villa. Surely the shop would attract young kids dragging their parents in, beginning a lifetime love affair with everything claret and blue

If it did it wouldn't have closed. The world's changed and kids don't get dragged Up Town by their mom on Saturday afternoon any longer.

Jammy little bastards.

I used to negotiate a Wimpey out of it, or else I'd play up.

A jam dougnut from that Cafe underneath the Bull St/Corporation St island. It had bright orange seats.

[olaftab]

Depends how much it's losing. Or if the landlords are trying to screw us because we're Villa and they thought we'd pay it.

It's nothing to do with the Landlords.

The rent was £205,000 pa, the business rates approx £72,000 pa and a small service charge - less than £5k pa.

There was a few years left on the lease with a legal right to renew at market rent.

This was purely a commercial decision.

Commercial decisions can also be made differently. For me it is well worth to keep presence in the centre of out city even if the outlet is not making any money through retail sales. It should be in the main mall in the Bullring  and the total annual cost would be no more them 3 months of N'Zogbia's wages.

[Louzie0]

Stupid decision, I agree with olaftab.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

You want the club to go bankrupt through wasted marketing dollars ? Have sense. It's already going bankrupt through crap purchases !

[Mortimer's Bear]

Shame, although I always preferred the old one in the Pavilions.

[Chris Harte]

Shame its gone. I bought a few items in there before Christmas. And sounds like it has been handy to some for buying/collecting tickets too.

Even if it hadn't sold a single item it surely wasn't as big a money sink as Agbon's wage packet over the last eighteen months.

[BOB MANSFIELD]

Maybe Agbonlahor should be stood in the Pavillions with a bag of merchandise and some tickets to flog, instead, then ?

[Chris Harte]

Maybe Agbonlahor should be stood in the Pavillions with a bag of merchandise and some tickets to flog, instead, then ?

Stocks and rotten fruit spring to mind but that's for a different thread.

[Louzie0]

You want the club to go bankrupt through wasted marketing dollars ? Have sense. It's already going bankrupt through crap purchases !

You know, Bob, I don't think the club would go bankrupt.
Call me crazy, call me optimistic, but Dr Tony sold me on his story of unlimited £millions when he took over our beloved Club.

I am surprised at the relinquishing of a high viz city centre focus for The Villa.
Just when we are about to revive in the Champs, given the signings.

It makes no sense.

[dave.woodhall]

You want the club to go bankrupt through wasted marketing dollars ? Have sense. It's already going bankrupt through crap purchases !

You know, Bob, I don't think the club would go bankrupt.
Call me crazy, call me optimistic, but Dr Tony sold me on his story of unlimited £millions when he took over our beloved Club.

I am surprised at the relinquishing of a high viz city centre focus for The Villa.
Just when we are about to revive in the Champs, given the signings.

It makes no sense.

It (presumably) loses money, it's in an unappealing part of the city centre and there can't be many people who look at empty shops and think "I really must support them".

[Louzie0]

I don't think it's that unappealing.
On New Street, on the main route from the station to the entrance of the Bull Street extravaganza?

Of course, if there's a better location....

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd much prefer us having a shop in the city centre but it's easy to say it doesn't matter if it's losing X amount every year when it's not our money that's being lost.

[Louzie0]

I don't care. Sorry, PeterWithesShin.
We have to have a presence in the City Centre.

[PeterWithesShin]

No we don't. We've spent most of our history without one.