The Celtic Thread

This is a f**king shocking decision to be honest and just means a lot of us will be buying our celtic stuff from Jd sports as opposed to online from the club. 

Is that a serious question? 

You obviously arent a Celtic fan I'm taking it? If you were you'd know the only place you will be able to get Celtic merchandise here is JD sports and they only have a limited selection of clothing. The Celtic shop in Dublin had every form of merchandise that is stocked on the website. For example there's a quality framed photo of celtic players down though the years that I've been meaning to get  - it wouldn't be feasible to bring that on a flight home and postage from Glasgow would be insane. The club told the AICSC that people were buying more stuff online and that's the clubs rationale - of course they were buying online- everywhere has been closed for the last 18 months! 

Is the same not true for most supporters though of Scottish/English teams though? I havent exactly seen any shopping centre or street full of club shops of any club although Liverpool did have a pop up store for xmas two years ago in Blanch SC. As for stockists, I don’t know what arrangements Celtic have, but I have definitely seen merchandise in more than JD Sports, although this would have been pre Covid I grant you and restricted to clothing. 

However, Celtic clearly have made their reasoning known to supporters here, and it appears that its simply not financially viable in order to keep small numbers of a fans happy who may visit the shop once or twice a year. Online shopping also is hardly a covid related phenomenon either although its impact has likely sped up the inevitable a small bit.

Again, I fail to see how its a shocking decision once the sums add up. On the contrary, If it makes financial sense then whats the point in running a physical store at a loss? Im sure youre happy enough to leave those antics up the mathematicians on the other side of Glasgow.