V Shop

V Shop is the newest name on the music retailing High Street. Gradually replacing the scourge that was Our Price, Virgin decided that they needed to come up with an entirely new concept in order to embrace the online age, and so V Shop was born. Let's make no bones about it - this is a well thought out concept from the start - does the V stand for Virgin, for Virtual, or both? - And they have my support. The shops are modern, and trendy. There is ...
...that's exactly what they weren't. V Shop has a new attitude to pricing - there are a number of special offers around the store, which focus on the "multisave" principle. Chart DVDs are Buy One Get Second Half Price. There are other, less popular DVDs on Three for the Price of Two and compilation cds are Two for £24. V shop boasts common sense deals all year round and certainly since the shop opened last November the deals have continued to run. Current ...

LostWitness 04.03.2001 · Read full review
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Our very own V Shop, the replacement for Our Price. I used to enjoy browsing the large selection of CD's in my local Our Price and it had been the venue for many a meet-up with me friends on a Saturday morning. So one day when it just disappeared without any warning, I was a bit concerned, because where would we meet up again. When the brand spanking new V Shop opened up, I went inside and inspected what was to be my new music outlet. What I found ...
...down don't they? The V Shop is actually what appears to be a down-scaled version of the sizeable Virgin Megastores, and another one of Richard Branson's ventures sure to bag him millions of pounds for his trouble. The appearance of the shop is quite modern, quite an improvement on the out-dated Our Price design. I just love the new listening stations where you scan in the barcode in and the CD starts to play, I have hours (well ok minutes) of fun ...

rhiahnnon 31.07.2001 · Read full review
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...someone think of this earlier? V shops look V modern and futuristic but the make over to me is not enough. The main problem is that they're still V. pricey. Most albums will still set you back around £13 and doubles still cost around £16. However they have simplified prices a little and now they no longer use the £3.99 price tags, it's put in much more simple figures like £4.00. Clever idea, and you dont get the annoying penny change. So the prices ...
...are reasonably priced and seem V popular as they have always got phones which are sold out. Well it's either that or they can't order their stock properly. The also sell a selection of computer games and consoles but these really can be found much cheaper everywhere else, so i wouldn't bother looking in here. They also sell the usual blank tapes, head cleaners, blank videos, spare C.D cases, headphones, C.D holders and a load of other accesories ...

java 10.09.2001 · Read full review
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...You Can’t Leave Behind. In v shop you have to pay 14 pounds for this CD. Some people may find this acceptable but I don’t because if I go just round the corner I can buy the same CD and I mean exactly the same CD for 12 pounds I am sure that this is not the only CD that this has happened to and as a result smaller privately owned music shops are getting more business. However there advantages and disadvantages both ways. Advantage: hard ...
...the quantity of CD’s that v shop can. Although v shop has the capacity to stock many CD’s indeed it fails to do so. For example I was looking for The Presidents of the USA’s first album. The guy in the shop said that they didn’t have any currently and would have to order it in and it would take anything from four days to a fortnight to come in. totally outraged I stormed out of the shop and went to a shop in Ashford in Kent ...

S_Osborne 10.03.2001 · Read full review
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...the past year or two V shop has managed to earn my respect. And here is why. A few years ago our tried and trusted Our Price shop was unfortunately closed down (boo hoo). Despite everyone’s favourite music shop having disappeared off the scene. The glitzy glamorous V Shop no sooner replaced it. The style and colours shouted out meaning you didn’t miss it. As you’d also imagine it was overrun by customers wanting to get a peek of our brand new shop, ...
...clean crisp approach. V shop now hosts simply one rack of mobile phones, the other now taken up purely with chart albums. Along the shop smaller racks have been implemented hosting promotional offers and deals available at the current time. (ok V shop, you’ve caught my attention, what else). Beyond this hosts a small rack of vinyl (I know, I nearly fainted, I thought these shiny Mcgees thought vinyl was some kind of carpet). A large collection of ...

nictastic 14.01.2003 · Read full review
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The V Shop is a literally a smaller version of Virgin Megastore. The V Shop range are taking over Our Price but I don't see why people are complaining about it. I think it's for the better personally. There's lower prices, mobile phones, phone vouchers and Virgin are just simplily better than Our Price. MUSIC ~~~~~ V Shop sell a different range of Music at reasonable prices. The Prices are in round numbers, no silly 99 pence of the end. The music ...
...PHONES ~~~~~~ The V Shop don't only sell Music, they sell Mobile Phones in the Virgin Network. The network is getting bigger and the quality of it is brilliant. The Shop sells a whole range of different makes and kinds of the phones so you aren't stuck with one phone, it lets you dicide which one is suited best for you. They have a sale usually like £10 off which is really saying that you get the SIM card free. I like the shop and think it's a ...

jenny_carr 26.02.2001 · Read full review
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...bad layout I could continue. V shop's prices are reasonable, the store assisstants are helpful, and relatively nice (although there are times when it seems there's more staff than customers which must be pushing the prices up a bit). Chart music is easy to find. Non-chart music is however a nightmare - the music doesn't appear to be classified in general sections, let alone have all an artists releases in one place (admittedly there is a *vague* ...
...too close together - a fundamental design flaw which it would be practically impossibel for them to change. Still if you are prepared to put up with having to search for your favourite artists CD then you might be lucky and find it's slightly cheaper than elsewhere, although in general i don't think the prices are much better or worse than is standard. A friend of mine did have trouble returning a Spunge CD that hadn't come with the free extra ...

artemisia 21.05.2001 · Read full review
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...the new modern, funky, young V Shop. At last there semms to be some organisation and space for more than two people in the same aisle at the same time. Good first impressions. Then you start to look for that CD. Where have they all gone. Yes there is the TOP 40 but nothing else. The same CDs are placed on different shelves all around the stores. Well what is on all the other shelves. Mobile Phones! I'm sure that we've had enough of this boom industry. ...

filtr8 21.02.2001 · Read full review
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I visit my local V shop nearly every weekend. The local V shop is small but is still very good. The goods are nearly always in stock but it is only once in a blue moon that they are not in stock. I regularly buy Virgin top-up cards for my Virgin mobile phone. V shop sell a manner of different phones including the Nokia 3210 and the Nokia 3310. They also sell reconditioned mobile phones. The settings are reset and the phone is repackaged and sold ...

graham.m.carr 09.04.2001 (13.04.2001) · Read full review
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