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Covered market shop - no sale on
- Thread starter Ox4Eva
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Another balls up from the club, what the hell is happening? Whilst I'm on it being and exile living in North Yorkshire the online shop is crap. Oxford Utd sort your s**t out!!!!
Ox4Eva
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Not negative, it's pointing out that a commercial operation that the club needs, to bring in revenue is poorly run!
southcoastyellow
Active member
I think of the areas Tiger mentioned when he came in was the availability and quality of the stock, still can't see any sign of improvement, apart from possibly the Puma shirt (don't know why they can't offer scarfs which aren't a major fire hazard!!!)
In the last 30 years I cannot remember many shops the club has been operating. The club had one near the Manor many years ago. The shop in the covered market may make very little due to high rent. Perhaps a sale makes no financial sense! Let's stop pushing this theme that the whole club is a shambles. From all the recent owners of the Club I would judge ian linigan as the most financially astute and he chose not to open a shop.
Ox4Eva
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Nothing wrong with a city centre shop snd it's something I have supported but run it correctly.
Banbury2018
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He might have been financially astute but he did have Nick Merry and Kelvin Thomas in charge of running the club at various times.
I agree Nick Merry was far from the best!
Ox4Eva
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Selling nothing makes no sense
Village-Yellow
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If they are in negotiations for an insurance claim, going to sale on any goods would only give the insurers opportunity to devalue stolen stock
Steppers
Junior Member
Unless people are buying the stolen goods, you cant buy it anywhere else so if people want it, price probably wont come into it (no one is buying it for the quality are they)
In reality the only stock that will have a shelf life is the replica kit and they haven't had loads of that most of the season and will probably only start discounting that in a month or two.
Sales in the high street are a lot of fiction. Generally you ae buying stuff at the price it always should have been, cheap as it is a old model. Cheap as it has a short shelf life or because the buyer had a mare and they still have stock coming out of there ears.
holdsteady
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Isn’t having an actual shop in this day and age a bit pointless? Unless an Oxford United FC shop bucks the the trend of them shutting down and being replaced by online purchasing, which seems unlikely, then it could well end up costing us money.
Big clubs can make money out of tourists/plastics, but I don’t see a market for us.
In Rome when I was there recently their were a load of Roma shops, but I only saw a direction sign for a Lazio shop, perhaps the branding is an easier sell to tourists. I know it’s tigers plan to sell the Oxford brand but is a little shop tucked away in the covered market going to realise that?
Big clubs can make money out of tourists/plastics, but I don’t see a market for us.
In Rome when I was there recently their were a load of Roma shops, but I only saw a direction sign for a Lazio shop, perhaps the branding is an easier sell to tourists. I know it’s tigers plan to sell the Oxford brand but is a little shop tucked away in the covered market going to realise that?
Ox4Eva
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I think it's great to have a shop in the city centre but I am not sure the covered market is the right place. Lot of empty units in the Clarenden centre with more footfall. Also not enough choice of merchandise on sale in the shop either.
The online shop is pretty basic and again not much choice.
The online shop is pretty basic and again not much choice.
makv
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The covered market gets a lot of tourist footfall
sideshowrob
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The online shop charges £5 for an OUFC key ring and £5 p&p. That kind of pricing makes the physical shops far more attractive.
