Zavvi Bouncing Back Online
March 3, 2009
Zavvi’s just about hanging in there, despite the majority of their UK stores either closing or switching to HMV/Head Entertainment, as they’ve launched a new website. Using this as good an excuse as any, they’ve also branched out into previously uncharted territories of perfume and lingerie. Since I know bugger all about the latter, I thought I’d compare it with online giants, Amazon and Play.com.
First I searched for Sennheiser, in the hope to compare prices, however my search had zero results; despite the stores selling earphones before they closed. Since it’s early days, I assume that the database mightn’t have been filled with all products as of yet though.
Next up, music, but alas there’s no option to download mp3s; a feature that most of their competition offer. So onto browsing their CDs, comparing the price of a random CD (The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing) shows that Amazon is the cheapest at £4.98, unfortunately just shy of the fiver you need for free delivery. But despite Zavvi’s introductory 10% off offer, Play is still cheaper at a respectable £5 with its standard free delivery.
Having said that, a few searches for other products across each site, brought up similar prices, and as ever it’s still best to shop around. If anything though, the online presence of Zavvi should aid the competition to ultimately drive down prices for customers.
Incidentally, they’re also jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, with their own Twitter account.
The new Zavvi site is run by The Hut who have recently gone into perfume and lingerie themselves, so that’s where that comes from.