Virgin Megastores have changed and are now called....

eskimo

Zavvi! Did anyone know about this??

www.zavvi.co.uk

Genghiz Cohen

This joke:
What do you call 500 nuns in a warehouse?

AlmightyCushion

They must have popped their cherry.

Karoma

eskimo wrote: »

Zavvi! Did anyone know about this??

www.zavvi.co.uk

At least Cork and Dublin City fora.
Ex: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055215692

Terry

It's all about the game.
http://www.zavvi.co.uk/medias/sys_master/8556376536095168.gif

Charlie

When I was a young mucker, I used to love going up to the second floor of the old megastore and try and muster up the balls to look at the porn vids. I'd always bottle it and vear to the wrestling ones.....:rolleyes:

Doctor DooM

Well there goes my last chance of getting into a virgin.





Sorry, I'll go now...

Patricide

God what a bad idea, cant see this rebranding making much buisness sense, virgin was a well known liked name. There just spending money changing everything and having people not like the brand name.

Reku

They might want to make sure all their branch managers are aware, at Xmas they still had signs up in Kilkenny for the Virgin Megastore that was "coming soon". Though I guess if they'd said "Zavvi megastore coming soon" people would've simply thought "wtf?", whereas if they wait until it's been open a while at least people might come to associate the two names more easily.

togster

intersting thread.

Stephen

Yeah, if you go into the Virgin megastore in Kilkenny, even since it opened, all the price labels on the stuff say "Zavvi".

ejmaztec

They'd get more customers if they called it Mergin' Vaginastore:D

Genghiz Cohen

It's a new hip name to appeal to the kids.

el rabitos

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

It's a new hip name to appeal to the kids.

nope, its a new hip name because branson sold it to the management company that had been running it and the name had to be legally changed and the stores completely rebranded as part of the deal.

Whats a Zavvi?

el rabitos

Deleted User wrote: »

Whats a Zavvi?

its a name the management people literally pulled out of their ass. they wanted a name that was one word and thats what they came up with, clever huh

Dudess

I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"

citytillidie

Dudess wrote: »

I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"

You would have expected that from teenagers not older men.


But still you should not have been disciplined for that. As i bet if them men had daughters your age and someone spoke to them like that, they would have been up in arms.



*unless they were them dirty old men types.

Kess73

Dudess wrote: »

I worked in the one in Cork when I was 19. We had to wear black t-shirts and a badge which was just the logo (red circle with "Virgin" in white). Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined once for asking one of them "how would you like a man of your age to speak to your daughter like that?"

Sounds familiar, I could guess at who disciplined you too. I worked in the Cork store once upon a time, so I am going with either M or A that sided with the customer.

Dudess

Oh the "M" and "A" I knew were lovely! No, it was L.

citytillidie wrote: »

i bet if them men had daughters your age and someone spoke to them like that, they would have been up in arms.



*unless they were them dirty old men types.

I'd be willing to bet those "dirty old men" types would still be up in arms if their daughters were spoken to like that!

eamoss

My post in the North East http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54863016&postcount=184
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zavvi

During the early to mid 2000s Virgin Group decided to sell off most of its Virgin Megastores to various companies, including Related Companies and the Lagardere Group. The UK and Ireland arm of Virgin Megastores was bought out by members of the management, led by managing director Simon Douglas and finance director Steve Peckham, for an undisclosed sum

Virgin Megastores Ireland will change to 'zavvi Ireland' in January 2008.

Found out a while back, Was watching sky and I was thinking Zazzi ads are the same as Virgin then did a google search and found out what happened.

5starpool

I presume all old Virgin Megastore vouchers (of which I got some for christmas) are still valid?

el rabitos

5starpool wrote: »

I presume all old Virgin Megastore vouchers (of which I got some for christmas) are still valid?

they are

Maximilian

Damn it, I was hoping they were going to change it to something like Whore-Store® instead. Missed opportunity if you ask me.

pd101

Stephen wrote: »

Yeah, if you go into the Virgin megastore in Kilkenny, even since it opened, all the price labels on the stuff say "Zavvi".

Saw that today alright when I was down there. Didn't have a clue what it was about.

Riesen_Meal

charlie mchugh wrote: »

When I was a young mucker, I used to love going up to the second floor of the old megastore and try and muster up the balls to look at the porn vids. I'd always bottle it and vear to the wrestling ones.....:rolleyes:

lol

So I wasnt the only one!

Kess73

Dudess wrote: »

Oh the "M" and "A" I knew were lovely! No, it was L.


I'd be willing to bet those "dirty old men" types would still be up in arms if their daughters were spoken to like that!

Am pretty sure that L is still there.

Dudess

Dudess wrote: »

...Loads of sleazy middle-aged and auld fellas would constantly chuckle "heh heh, bet you're not!" to us. I got disciplined ...

Heh heh heh, I'll bet you were.....

yogert

This was posted on a site a while back bout the whole changeover funny stuff>>> http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1999&Itemid=206

A few weeks later the folks behind the website were sent a zavvi gift card from the owners and had a much nicer view of the whole debacle! http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2027&Itemid=206

Dudess

Deleted User wrote: »

Heh heh heh, I'll bet you were.....

Jigsaw

Virgin in Belfast has been Zavvi for a good while - since maybe Halloween I'd say. I'm an HMV man though.

robinph

Jigsaw wrote: »

Virgin in Belfast has been Zavvi for a good while - since maybe Halloween I'd say. I'm an HMV man though.

I'd noticed all the ones I'd come across in other places around the UK had been rebranded early last year, they just seem to be taking a lot longer to bother with them over here. They have half done the one in Liffey Valley now but left up the main signs over the shop for the moment so as not to confuse people too much I guess.

citytillidie

Dudess wrote: »

Oh the "M" and "A" I knew were lovely! No, it was L.


I'd be willing to bet those "dirty old men" types would still be up in arms if their daughters were spoken to like that!

Yea your right i dont understand who anyone could side with somebody who said that.

porn_star

robinph wrote: »

I'd noticed all the ones I'd come across in other places around the UK had been rebranded early last year, they just seem to be taking a lot longer to bother with them over here. They have half done the one in Liffey Valley now but left up the main signs over the shop for the moment so as not to confuse people too much I guess.

The uk ones were changed over in November, Irish ones are officially Zavvi from this week on and the main signs over the shop will be taken down and replaced.

Latchy

porn_star wrote: »

The uk ones were changed over in November, Irish ones are officially Zavvi from this week on and the main signs over the shop will be taken down and replaced.

Yup , our Virgin store in Liverpool became a Zavvi one a few months ago .Our HMV closed to make way for a Primark store .

robinph

latchyco wrote: »

Our HMV closed to make way for a Primark store .

Now that is some very weird re-branding going on there.

Latchy

robinph wrote: »

Now that is some very weird re-branding going on there. [/QUOTE

Hmv are still Hmv .It's just they closed down the lager store in church street to move up the road a bit to a smaller premises .Primark are opening up everywere although not sure if they have reached ireland yet (or will ).

Bob the Builder

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

It's a new hip name to appeal to the kids.

Ya, nobody wanted to be virgin anymore.

Lets make it more Zavvi... (as in savy)

Dudess

latchyco wrote: »

Primark are opening up everywere although not sure if they have reached ireland yet (or will ).

Primark has been here for donkeys years - in the guise of Penneys.

Latchy

Dudess wrote: »

Primark has been here for donkeys years - in the guise of Penneys.

Except Primark has only being around a few years as in company name in uk .

Penneys has being around for decades.A satalite company no doubt .:)

eamoss

latchyco wrote: »

.Primark are opening up everywere although not sure if they have reached ireland yet (or will ).

Dudess wrote: »

Primark has been here for donkeys years - in the guise of Penneys.

latchyco wrote: »

Except Primark has only being around a few years as in company name in uk .

Penneys has being around for decades.A satalite company no doubt .:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primark

Primark Stores Limited is an Irish clothing retailer, operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain.

Latchy

[QUOTE=eamoss;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primark

[/QUOTE]Now i didn't know that Primark was an irish company until now so ya do learn somthing every day .So i am really in penneys when in primark uk .