Hastings Music/Movie store chain filing for bankruptcy

the sentinel wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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They were a huge graphic novel dealer

Yep, I just read that Hastings' bankruptcy is now threatening the survival of the Diamond Distribution company, which supplies comic books to comic shops/newsstands and other retailers. Hastings was their biggest customer and they're in the hole with Diamond for several million bucks. Ouch.

Wow. I had no idea about that, FF. My best friend ran a comic store for about a decade and a half so I am quite familiar with Diamond. Crazy.

Shit that's not good, no way the comic book industry can survive another crash like it had in the 90s thanks to the speculator boom, I hope Diamond pulls through.

Another one bites the dust, this time in Canada. HMV, the largest Canadian music/video retailer, will close all 100+ of their stores by the end of April:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/business/7669919/hmv-canada-in-receivership-all-stores-to-close-by-april-30-update

Road trip to Canada is in order!! Lets flock like vultures to pick apart the bloated carcass and fill our gullets with more outdated media formats!!