Yep got to agree Risso, bought my nipper some speakers, but they were piled high off the floor and covered in multiple dayglo money off stickers. What an excellent way to devalue the perception of your own stock. It's just a shame they didn't employ somebody to constantly kick one around the floor shouting 'crap' at it.
I've gone all old school steam punk for my own stuff, bought a couple of CD's last week and put another two on order through an actual shop, staggered the order so as to pick up one later this week and one next week. I'm happy, shop is happy, shop knows what I like and cost me a bloody fortune.
HMV get none of my music money, which by coincidence is exactly the same cut as i-tunes and amazon get.