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Club shop coming back in house

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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,683
    Remember bringing a girl back to my place. That's all. 


    Na I remember bringing a girl back and I had those same design bed sheets. Let's just say like a lot of Charlton matches they didn't see much action. 

  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,484
    shine166 said:

    Don't think that silver shirt Salmon is wearing ended up being sold, was the grey one the kid is wearing. 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,876
    DA9 said:
    It’s difficult to imagine the retail offer to fans getting worse from Castore, so this is a good thing for fans and generally. However, anyone seeing this as lucrative for the club is likely to be in for a disappointment. Retail wasn’t a big success at Charlton even in the Premier League.
    You've sometimes got to have loss leaders or break evens to attract other spending elsewhere
    Like Scott Fraser you mean ? 😆😆😉
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    shine166 said:

    We still have C 24 and C 26 from when my daughter was born !!!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,740
    shine166 said:

    I’ll take one C3 shirt
  • Brownie12
    Brownie12 Posts: 1,525
    Remember bringing a girl back to my place. That's all. 


    Na I remember bringing a girl back and I had those same design bed sheets. Let's just say like a lot of Charlton matches they didn't see much action. 

    Unlike Charlton to keep a clean sheet.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,345
    Remember bringing a girl back to my place. That's all. 


    Na I remember bringing a girl back and I had those same design bed sheets. Let's just say like a lot of Charlton matches they didn't see much action. 

    Reckon it was the matching jiimjams, slippers and toy Floyd and Harvey that put her off mate!

    People can be so judgemental...
  • CheshireAddick
    CheshireAddick Posts: 1,304
    shine166 said:

    Surprised how expensive merchandise cost 28 years ago relative to today.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    fenaddick said:
    It’s difficult to imagine the retail offer to fans getting worse from Castore, so this is a good thing for fans and generally. However, anyone seeing this as lucrative for the club is likely to be in for a disappointment. Retail wasn’t a big success at Charlton even in the Premier League.
    While I agree it probably won’t be lucrative you can’t compare now to 20 years ago. Football has got much more commercial and people are more likely to buy training gear than they were for example. Still don’t expect it to be a massive earner but the world is a different place to when we were in the prem. 
    That may be true and online has grown considerably whereas location was a problem, but the fact is the market was many times bigger in the  Premier League. The interest in Charlton has shrunk and people just don’t want to be identified with the club to the same extent.

    Retail and commercial generally are areas which expose the structural weakness of the business, even in relation to apparently similar clubs, and are hidden behind the attendances / season ticket take-up.
    I'm curious what this means in this context. Is it lack of good souvenirs, is it lack of promoting them, is it the complete outsourcing of the club store leading to reduced profits, something else I'm not thinking of?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,824
    shine166 said:

    Surprised how expensive merchandise cost 28 years ago relative to today.
    I thought that too, the price deflation in textiles caused by moving production to China hadn't happened yet.

    Never mind the shirts, the single duvet cover is £35.99  :o Looking the pathetic club shop website, the original price for a single duvet (now on sale for a £5!) was still only £22.
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,821
    Ahhhh, that picture of Belinda Charlton in a Charlton dressing gown (just about!) .....
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,824
    Off_it said:
    Ahhhh, that picture of Belinda Charlton in a Charlton dressing gown (just about!) .....
    That brings back memories.

    The picture of Sweaty Balmer opposite, as if he were eyeing her up, is quite amusing too!


  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    shine166 said:

    Would love a Charlton fork as offered on Page 4 top left. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,823
    Off_it said:
    Ahhhh, that picture of Belinda Charlton in a Charlton dressing gown (just about!) .....
    Believe she died a few years ago. 
    Was always a favourite of mine 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,913
    shine166 said:

    Surprised how expensive merchandise cost 28 years ago relative to today.
    Had to pay £1 for the catalogue too. I counted at least 20 items that Id owned in there, joys of those days too was that merch wasnt turned over every single season... so the club could sit on stock and you (parents) were not spending £200 just replacing kits every year. 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,739
    fenaddick said:
    It’s difficult to imagine the retail offer to fans getting worse from Castore, so this is a good thing for fans and generally. However, anyone seeing this as lucrative for the club is likely to be in for a disappointment. Retail wasn’t a big success at Charlton even in the Premier League.
    While I agree it probably won’t be lucrative you can’t compare now to 20 years ago. Football has got much more commercial and people are more likely to buy training gear than they were for example. Still don’t expect it to be a massive earner but the world is a different place to when we were in the prem. 
    That may be true and online has grown considerably whereas location was a problem, but the fact is the market was many times bigger in the  Premier League. The interest in Charlton has shrunk and people just don’t want to be identified with the club to the same extent.

    Retail and commercial generally are areas which expose the structural weakness of the business, even in relation to apparently similar clubs, and are hidden behind the attendances / season ticket take-up.
    Club literally can’t win with you, can they? 
    Literally?! Oh, shit.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,739
    shine166 said:

    There’s a left handers’ mug here @KiwiValley
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,650
    edited May 2024
    Could do with some Charlton slipper's / sliders, and a Charlton wall clock.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,116
    fenaddick said:
    It’s difficult to imagine the retail offer to fans getting worse from Castore, so this is a good thing for fans and generally. However, anyone seeing this as lucrative for the club is likely to be in for a disappointment. Retail wasn’t a big success at Charlton even in the Premier League.
    While I agree it probably won’t be lucrative you can’t compare now to 20 years ago. Football has got much more commercial and people are more likely to buy training gear than they were for example. Still don’t expect it to be a massive earner but the world is a different place to when we were in the prem. 
    That may be true and online has grown considerably whereas location was a problem, but the fact is the market was many times bigger in the  Premier League. The interest in Charlton has shrunk and people just don’t want to be identified with the club to the same extent.

    Retail and commercial generally are areas which expose the structural weakness of the business, even in relation to apparently similar clubs, and are hidden behind the attendances / season ticket take-up.
    Club literally can’t win with you, can they? 
    Literally?! Oh, shit.
    Yes, literally.
  • KiwiValley
    KiwiValley Posts: 3,378
    shine166 said:

    There’s a left handers’ mug here @KiwiValley
    Fock me that's amazing! Charlton Athletic - the club that cares. No fan will be 'left' behind. 'Right' on, man.
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  • clive said:
    Probably seen the success of Retro Red Robin, and the kits they've been doing. Good idea to try and get people to buy them via the club shop instead.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,012
    Hopefully the 80's tops will be brought back for sale.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,619
    Hopefully the 80's tops will be brought back for sale.
    Stop living in the past 😉
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,012
    Hopefully the 80's tops will be brought back for sale.
    Stop living in the past 😉

    Sorry dad :)
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Remember bringing a girl back to my place. That's all. 


    Na I remember bringing a girl back and I had those same design bed sheets. Let's just say like a lot of Charlton matches they didn't see much action. 

    Wouldn’t have kept many clean sheets all that time alone either. 
  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    clive said:
    Anyone on here on the working group? I accept you won't want to admit it given the possible deluge of requests, but if anyone is I'd love to see the 2003/04 shirt, given that season was out highest ever Premiership finish, make a comeback along with the 1997/98 shirt from the Play-off Final. My first season was the 1980/81 season. That Addidas shirt was the mutts and I think would still go down well today! 
  • I’ve stopped buying club shirts each year, probably because the team has been pretty rubbish.

    Much prefer buying retro shirts instead because of better times.
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    clive said:
    Anyone on here on the working group? I accept you won't want to admit it given the possible deluge of requests, but if anyone is I'd love to see the 2003/04 shirt, given that season was out highest ever Premiership finish, make a comeback along with the 1997/98 shirt from the Play-off Final. My first season was the 1980/81 season. That Addidas shirt was the mutts and I think would still go down well today! 
    Put my name down but not had a reply, albeit I did get a DM on twitter from one of the fan advisors saying that they would be in touch when pressed
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,913
    I’ve stopped buying club shirts each year, probably because the team has been pretty rubbish.

    Much prefer buying retro shirts instead because of better times.
    Decided to do the same with a England shirt this summer, retro prices seem to have dropped again unless you go back the 80's the prices are quite good.