http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21021073.

Founded in 1921, its now sucumbed to online traders.

Pity to see it go

It's probably why HMV and Virgin ended up being swallowed by Sanity here a few years ago, with no opposition from the ACCC. At the same time, all three companies had stores just about everywhere but since then there's very few of any of them and Sanity would most likely do most of its trade online. Sanity's stores would have cost them a King's ransom to set up too. All that structural steel being used as a set with all those large fans spinning slowly and doing very little.

Other names that have gone over the years (not so much in Britain but here in Australia) are Brash's and Edel's. Let's not forget that department stores once also sold music.

Sony and Universal control the music and film sector now. There's still other players but they are in the back line. I'm not so sure that is a good thing for the artists or the punters.

Anyone remember the old BI-LO supermarket chain. They went under only a few years ago, didn't they?

Yep, Bi-Lo is now swallowed by Coles although they did own them for quite a while before that. Years ago Bi-Lo bought out Shoey's which was popular in the Hunter Valley and also the first chain of supermarkets to adopt barcode scanning.