I personally think HMV had its day many years ago. Anyone trying to save it will fail and lose a lot of money in doing so. Yes its a shame but thats business today. We are living in troubled times and there are going to have to be many more closures of zombie shops and businesses before we get out of this mess. Bit of a shame but that reality. Online is the future.
So far all the BoE and government are doing is prolonging the agony by stupid forced lending to via banks (FFL scheme using OUR money!) to businesses which really should have never started up or are beyond saving. Same goes for mortgage lending on overpriced houses trying to prop them up again with taxpayers money stolen from the prudent who did not create this mess.
Inflation 3%. Interest rate 0.5%, absolutely crazy plus devaluation of the pound. Idiots and so far none of the parties gets it.