I read with sadness the Tower Records were closing doors until I asked my when was the last time I actually bought from Tower?

It was almost twenty years ago, as far as I remember.  Reading the story, all the usual culprits were there, young kids buy online, illegal downloads, etc.  Not one iota about what might have Tower Records done wrong.

I stopped shopping there way before downloading music from the Internet.  Tower was a place where you could go through stacks of records and find that precious jewel.  And should you not get it there, an incredible staff, as crazy about obscure albums as you were, would find it.  That all changed at the end of the eighties and Tower lost its image.  Sure you would find in some stores a great person who was truly interested in rare to find albums but it became an exception.  So is it really surprising they closed door since they did not differentiate themselves from others anymore, since their business model was not agile and did not adapt?

And on another note, the second resignation of Donahue, the Sprint chairman.  The article quoted a struggling business model also.  Ever since Sprint swallowed Nextel, with the FCC’s blessings, Nextel’s great quality service has spiraled down to awful.  I am going to break my contract this month as it makes very little sense having to call every month or so to complain about charges that show up randomly, as well as calls I never make.  This was, and apparently still is, a tactic that lead me to run away from Sprint 9 years ago…