HMV Will Close Up To 100 Stores With Up To 1500 Jobs At Risk

<p>Although it could be a lot worse&comma; even though this doesn’t make this news any better&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"HMV Group" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hmvgroup&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">HMV<&sol;a> has announced that it will close between 60 and 100 stores in the UK&comma; putting 1500 jobs at risk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Although people may assume that &OpenCurlyQuote;it could be worse’&comma; the bad news doesn’t stop there as Deloitte and Hilco&comma; the company which now own HMV&comma; are aiming to closer more stores&comma; aiming to close 120 – 160 stores in total&period; With only 223 HMV stores in the UK this could leave just 63 stores left ojn the high street&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Our best wishes are with those and their families who will be impacted by these store closures&sol;loss of jobs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;telegraph&period;co&period;uk&sol;finance&sol;newsbysector&sol;retailandconsumer&sol;9844299&sol;HMV-set-to-close-up-to-100-stores&period;html">Telegraph <&sol;a>via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-02-04-hmv-to-close-up-to-100-stores-report">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" alt&equals;"" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;a74ac0e8-f8a4-4d40-8db0-39c1336fe348" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;