Article: Company presses eject button for the humble cassette tape

THE days of the cassette tape are doomed - after a major electrical retailer announced it was pressing the eject button on sales.Currys, with more than 500 stores in the UK, said stocks of blank cassette tapes would be sold but not replenished.The move comes in the face of the runaway success of digital music formats such as the iPod and the MP3 player.Currys has also said it anticipates that cassette decks, which are now installed in less than five per cent of audio equipment stocked by the retailer, will disappear within 18 ...

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