The administrator of HMV have announced that a total of 66 stores will close shortly which will result in the loss of 930 jobs which the company had created.
At a dismal time in the current economic climate this is sad news for all involved but it could had been a lot worse as HMV covers many areas of the United Kingdom and keeps hundreds more people in work as the company desperately continues to fight for your attention in the high street.
The company also released a full-list of stores which will be closing, all of which have been identified as ‘loss making’ stores, hence the closure. Courtesy of IGN, here is the list;
Ashton-under-Lyne, Ballymena, Barnsley, Bayswater, Belfast Boucher Road, Belfast Forestside, Bexleyheath, Birkenhead, Birmingham Fort, Blackburn, Boston, Bournemouth Castlepoint, Bracknell, Burton-upon-Trent, Camberley, Chesterfield, Coleraine, Craigavon, Croydon Centrale, Derry, Dumfries, Durham, Edinburgh Fort, Edinburgh Gyle Centre, Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh Princes Street, Edinburgh St James, Falkirk, Fulham, Glasgow – Fort, Glasgow – Silverburn, Glasgow Braehead,Huddersfield, Kirkcaldy, Leamington Spa, Leeds White Rose, Lisburn, Loughborough, Luton, Manchester 90, Moorgate, Newry, Newtonabbey, Orpington, Rochdale, Scunthorpe, South Shields, Speke Park, St Albans, St Helens, Stockton-on-Tees, Tamworth, Teesside, Telford, Trocadero, Wakefield, Walsall, Walton-on-Thames, Wandsworth, Warrington, Watford, Wellingborough, Wigan, Wood Green, Workington, Wrexham
Has your local HMV store closed up? Do you think the company will ever fight back to become profitable again? Let us know your views, as well as if you know someone who has been affected by these closures, in the comments below.
[Source: IGN]
