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I used to be a big customer and receive their weekly e-mails. 

Last week I placed my first order in four years. [No longer buy as much classical.]

Today I got the following email. Kind of sad, like the end of an era.

A Note from Berkshire Record Outlet

 

Dear fellow music-lovers,

The time has come to announce our closure within the next sixty days. In the interim, we have a backlog of new and restocked titles that we plan to offer you via our usual updates, in preparation for the subsequent sale of the entire inventory to a consortium of wholesalers.

With one exception, we’re all well past retirement age, and the challenges of running a niche business in the year 2025 are more than this near octogenarian is willing to confront. In short, after fifty-one years, we bid you farewell.

Thank you all for your patronage.

Best wishes,

Joe Eckstein

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The say they'll be selling their inventory to wholesalers.

Where are the likely destinations for megabuttloads of all those micro-sized specialty classical labels?

With the lack of old-school record stores, are their cutout bins left anywhere?

Posted

I got some interesting items from them, but this was many moons ago. Shipping fees from the US to Europe simply were prohibitive. I wish them well. They deserve their retirement.

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1 hour ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I haven't ordered from them in a long time. I used to get great deals on small label Jazz CDs & SACDs but I bet my last order was close to 15 years ago now.

Same here.

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