Our Price was a chain of record stores in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland from 1971 until 2004. Founded in 1971 by Gary Nesbitt, Edward Stollins and Mike Isaacs, their first store was located in London's Finchley Road. Until 1976, the first six stores were branded, The Tape Revolution, and concentrated on selling the - then - new compact cassette format and 8-track tapes.
From 1976, the up-start chain rebranded to Our Price Records in response to local demand for vinyl records over 8-tracks. In 1988, it rebranded again to Our Price Music as new CD formats started being distributed by record labels. In 1993, a final brand relaunch occurred with the then, 300-store chain, calling themselves simply, Our Price.
The company was based in London, with a head office above the shop in Kensington High Street. It initially focused on the committed rock album buyer, with regular imports of "cut-out" US albums, a remainder store on Charing Cross Road branded Surplus Records, and a mail-order business driven by advertising in the music press. These different routes to market fell away after the core chain grew in 1980 with the purchase of the Harlequin Records chain. Thereafter, national expansion followed, with the 100th store opening in the Kings Road, Chelsea; the 200th at Stirling, Scotland; and the 300th in Brixton, south London.
Famous quotes containing the word price:
“If there is a price to pay for the privilege of spending the early years of child rearing in the driver’s seat, it is our reluctance, our inability, to tolerate being demoted to the backseat. Spurred by our success in programming our children during the preschool years, we may find it difficult to forgo in later states the level of control that once afforded us so much satisfaction.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)