HMV Closing ALL Ireland Stores

<p><a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"HMV Group" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;HMV&lowbar;Group" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">HMV<&sol;a> has announced that all sixteen of its Irish stores will be closed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This news comes after HMV announced more than 60 store closures last week and adds a further 300 jobs to the pile of redundancies which have been caused due to the company exiting administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stores in Ireland were attempted to be saved however as <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Deloitte" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;deloitte&period;com&sol;view&sol;en&lowbar;GX&sol;global&sol;index&period;htm" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"homepage">Deloitte<&sol;a>&comma; the administrator of HMV&comma; did try to find a buyer for the stores but had not been successful&period; Each of the sixteen stores were loss-making which didn&&num;8217&semi;t add any further support to the situation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HMV had in recent years seen an increase in video game sales&comma; whilst sales of CDs had continued to drop&period; With many gamers buying online or trading in games at exchange stores&comma; the decline in HMV&&num;8217&semi;s market was always on the horizon&period; With websites like Jackpot Capital Casino <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;jackpotcapitalcasino&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">hosting some great online casino games<&sol;a>&comma; with play for free options site wide&comma; there is still a lot of options for gamers during this difficult period for many high street gaming merchandisers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-02-12-300-jobs-lost-as-hmv-quits-ireland">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;0b06f5fc-9eac-44a6-9cc4-047fa1c0d236" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;