The follwing year Rayback itself was the object of a management buyout by a consortium of its employees, but very quickly was taken over by Next and effectively ceased exist.
Christopher Bourne's efforts to acquire the store freehold also had an ironic denouement.
Rayback bought the Bourne and Hollingworth freehold for 750,000.
Some commentators thought this undervalued, but the valuation of commercial properties seems to have been a slippery issue.