Currys Kills-Off Cassette Tapes
Electrical retailing giant, Currys has pressed ‘Eject’ on music cassette tapes, announcing that it will no longer sell the once dominant audio format.
It is also planning to phase out the sale of cassette decks too, blaming MP3 players as the key reason why music cassettes are finally coming to the end of their reel.
According to research from Understanding & Solutions, in Cassettetape the UK 83 million music cassettes were sold in 1989, 53 million in 2000, 500,000 in 2005 and only around 100,000 last year.
Peter Keenan, managing director of Currys, told the Daily Telegraph:
"I remember the tape with some fondness. The hours spent putting together compilation tapes and the all-too-familiar experience of finding that your deck had chewed your tape will resonate with many now in their 30s and 40s. For today's MP3 generation, it's just a few clicks of the mouse to achieve what's arguably a better outcome."
Currys is the last big player to abandon music cassettes, as Woolworths and HMV ditched them over 18 months ago.
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