Sanity

Sanity was founded by business heavyweight Brett Blundy with just a single store in 1980 called Jetts, in Pakenham, Victoria. It sold vinyl records and ...

"Our online business - sanity.com.au - will continue to operate, and will service the many loyal customers the brand has continued to be dedicated to over the decades." "With our customers shifting to digital for their visual and music content consumption, and with diminishing physical content available to sell to our customer, it has made it impossible to continue with our physical stores," Itaoui said. Now, as online shopping - particularly for music - takes an ever-larger share of the market, Sanity has announced it will close its 50 physical stores by the end of April this year, in line with their respective lease expiries.

Iconic music retailer Sanity will close its remaining physical stores in Australia this year after more than 40 years of operation.

Mr Itaoui said the online business will continue to operate after the closure of the remaining stores. The company said it will close its 50 remaining brick-and-mortar stores by the end of April 2023. - Sanity will close its 50 remaining stores by April 2023

Australian music and entertainment retailer Sanity is shutting its physical stores across the country. The company, which sells CDs and DVDs, will close its ...

"I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the Sanity team, past and present, and express my pride around their achievements, as well as thank them for their hard-work, dedication, and relentless commitment to ensuring they exceeded customer service expectations," he said. The outlet became the most popular music retailer in the country and at its peak was said to have more than 150 stores. "Our team is also working hard to ensure every customer receives all orders they have placed with us, including all pre-orders, which will be dispatched through our online business if the store is closed by the time their order arrives." "With our customers shifting to digital for their visual and music content consumption, and with diminishing physical content available to sell to our customer, it has made it impossible to continue with our physical stores," Sanity owner Ray Itaoui said. [sanity.com.au](https://www.sanity.com.au/) - will continue to operate, and will service the many loyal customers the brand has continued to be dedicated to over the decades. "Our priority right now is to ensure each of our team members knows exactly what this means for their career and employment future."

Iconic music and entertainment retailer Sanity has announced it will close all 50 of its stores by April with the brand moving solely online and the owner ...

Iconic music and entertainment retailer Sanity is closing all of its nationwide 50 shops - Music and entertainment retailer Sanity will close all of its 50 stores by April End of an era: Iconic Aussie retailer Sanity announces it will close all of its stores by April as it tries to recreate its golden days online

Iconic Australian music retailer Sanity has announced that it will officially close all of its physical stores in April this year.

However, the demand for the products sold at Sanity suddenly halted when music and content streaming became popular. Sanity currently has 50 stores open around Australia and sells CDs and DVDs. “With our customers shifting to digital for their visual and music content consumption, and with diminishing physical content available to sell to our customer, it has made it impossible to continue with our physical stores,” owner Ray Itaoui said, according to Nine.

Music retailer Sanity has announced it will close its remaining stores across Australia and move to an entirely online model by April.

Itaoui attributed the imminent closure of the company’s brick-and-mortar outlets to the significant rise in digital music consumption in recent years. The first store to trade under the Sanity name was opened in Doncaster, Melbourne in 1992. Businessman Brett Blundy started what would evolve into the Sanity brand in 1980, opening a single store, Jetts, in Melbourne.

Fifty retail outlets to close by April but owner says 'online business will continue to operate and will service many loyal customers'

Our priority right now is to ensure each of our team members knows exactly what this means for their career and employment future.” Itaoui said the online operations would continue to fulfil all existing orders and gift vouchers. [online business](https://www.sanity.com.au/) will continue to operate and will service the many loyal customers the brand has continued to be dedicated to over the decades.

Iconic Australian music retailer Sanity has announced it will be shutting up shop and closing all remaining physical stores this year.

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BRISBANE, Australia — It's closing time for Sanity, the once-great Australian music retail specialist which confirmed it would close all its ...

[in 2021](https://www.billboard.com/pro/australia-recorded-music-industry-growth-2021-aria/), for the third successive year of growth, according to trade body ARIA. “There is so much to be proud of,” adds Itaoui. The experiment ended in 2003 when Brazin sold its 118 Sanity Entertainment U.K. LoadIt shut down in With Blundy at the helm, his Brazin company entered the U.K. In a statement issued Wednesday (Jan.