February 3, 201312 yr I'm thinking the places that have duplicate stores (if there are any left) in will be first to go tbh, but I think the profitable stores within cities and major shopping towns will be the overall survivors.
February 3, 201312 yr It's been announced that Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Arcadia Group and Iceland have all put in bids for stores and there is massive interest in the Oxford Street store :nocheer: It will all come down to the fact if the administrators can earn more money out of selling the store leases rather than keeping them as HMV stores. Eugh at the thought of a supermarket bang in the middle of Oxford Street.
February 3, 201312 yr They simply mustn't get rid of HMV Oxford Street. So many memories :( Even as recently as 2007 they had an absolutely huge CD single area of the store with a massive alphabetical A-Z section. I've spent whole Saturday afternoons there in the past.
February 4, 201312 yr As long as Lakeside, Bluewater, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich keep their HMV's I will be happy (I think there is 2 or 3 in Norwich so as long as they keep 1 I will be happy) Oh and Brighton, as a place I like to travel to. Edited February 4, 201312 yr by Martyn
February 4, 201312 yr They simply mustn't get rid of HMV Oxford Street. So many memories :( Even as recently as 2007 they had an absolutely huge CD single area of the store with a massive alphabetical A-Z section. I've spent whole Saturday afternoons there in the past. yeah, those were the days... actually HMV Oxford always was one of the first places i visit whenever i travel to London..such a shame it has to go... one less day in my future trips... Edited February 4, 201312 yr by Big Mistake
February 4, 201312 yr That big CD single area in HMV Oxford Street disappeared sometime between August and September 2009...about two years after most other stores had got rid of their equivalents :P I remember because I bought Chicane's 'Poppiholla' there in the early August, then when I visited again a month later (around the time Mika's 'We Are Golden' and Muse's 'Uprising' were released) they'd relegated it to a tiny shelf in the middle of the store, which is around the time I finally stopped bothering with CDs and went 100% download. Last time I checked they had about six CD singles buried just after the pop/rock compilations, again about six more than every other store around.
February 4, 201312 yr I used to love the HMV in Oxford Street - they had a section with all the new imports with bonus tracks etc. Although that seemed to disappear a few years ago
February 4, 201312 yr The last CD single I bought from HMV Oxford Street was Elbow's "One Day Like This" in June 2008, at that time they still had the full Top 40 (missing the download-only tracks of course) plus the A-Z section. As BillyH says by the end of the 2000s there was little to speak of apart from a small shelf of new releases next to the vinyl section. HMV Lincoln had a pretty decent stock of new CD singles right through 2010 IIRC but I've not seen any apart from charity singles or fan-base releases like Alex Day's "Stupid Stupid" since.
February 4, 201312 yr Deloitte to announce HMV store closures this week - report Source:MW by Rhian Jones Deloitte is reported to announce plans to close between 60 and 100 of HMV’s 223 High Street stores this week, including one of the retailer’s flagship central London stores. The stores are to remain open until they run out of stock and closures will ultimately result in the loss of up to 1,500 jobs, according to The Telegraph. The location of the stores to close is still to be finalised, and which out of the HMV Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus sites will go is also yet to be decided. HMV, which employs more than 4,000 staff, was taken over by retail restructuring group Hilco. Last week, the administrators cut 190 HMV jobs at the company’s head office - including that of HMV's CFO Ian Kenyon.
February 4, 201312 yr Author Bloody hell the High Street really will be dead - In the last few weeks my local Jessops, Mothercare, Blockbuster have closed with 2 other stores having closing down sales - And with a question mark hanging over my local HMV and the fact it's being reported that Republic and Store Twenty One are on the brink of collapsing then my local shopping centre will be left with 11 coffee shops and little else!
February 4, 201312 yr There be more pound shops in the high street soon, our local shopping centre in Chatham the Pentagon Centre is getting refurbish soon to add more shops, that makes me laugh actually, when there are empty leases on the ground floor and the second floor, what a waste of money to refurbish the centre, when they can't fill the empty leases, there are about 12 empty shops, with DG Sports and HMV gone in the past few weeks.
February 4, 201312 yr Bloody hell the High Street really will be dead - In the last few weeks my local Jessops, Mothercare, Blockbuster have closed with 2 other stores having closing down sales - And with a question mark hanging over my local HMV and the fact it's being reported that Republic and Store Twenty One are on the brink of collapsing then my local shopping centre will be left with 11 coffee shops and little else! thought as much about Store Twenty One.. got an email saying that the online store was closing and i went in store last week and they had a massive sale on
February 7, 201312 yr It's been announced today that 66 stores will be closing :( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366009
February 7, 201312 yr Well, I guess I'm glad Westfield Stratford's one seems to be staying. Probably only a matter of time before it joins that list though :(
February 7, 201312 yr Aww the one in Braehead was really good :( but thankfully the one in my town is staying.
February 7, 201312 yr It's been announced today that 66 stores will be closing :( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21366009 Happy to see the Cheltenham one isn't on there (yet)...
February 7, 201312 yr Author My store is safe for now! Surprising to see some of the Top 50 turnover/most profitable stores in that list though!
February 7, 201312 yr I see they're closing down the Trocadero one instead of the Oxford Street one (for now)! Are companies still interested in buying HMV I wonder?
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