HMV Finally closing down for good?

I’ll admit it, I gave my high street the elbow this year and done all my Xmas shopping online. Couldn’t be doing with the cold, the parking and the crowds. I’d say 90% of it was done on amazon (I have prime), the rest on Pandora and perfume shop.

Was the most relaxing Xmas shopping I’ve ever done.
 
robfosters said:
Yeah, I worked near the flagship Piccadilly Circus one. Used to spend ages in there. Does anyone know what became of that building? It still stands empty on google maps?
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Sorry, that was HMV. The Virgin store became a swanky clothing store, I actually maintained that building for a couple of years. There's an old two story post office vault under it complete with disused royal mail mini-railway and those antique lifts with the trellis doors. Very interesting stuff.
 
Diddums said:
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Sorry, that was HMV. The Virgin store became a swanky clothing store, I actually maintained that building for a couple of years. There's an old two story post office vault under it complete with disused royal mail mini-railway and those antique lifts with the trellis doors. Very interesting stuff.
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I think this is it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_&_Edgar
 
Here they go again (tbh surprised it’s taken this long!)

I went out trying to find a CD for my partner for Christmas, tried my local W H Smiths and a few supermarkets and gave up, bought it on Amazon and it arrived the following morning.

I could have driven to Hanley to go to HMV but couldn’t be bothered with the traffic and parking to get it and there lies the problem.

Won’t be sorry to see them go tbh, a shame for the staff but the writings been on the wall for a good while....
 
Uther said:
There'll be nothing left on the high street soon other than coffee shops and charity shops.
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And that's in no small part to local authorities not allowing there to be. High Streets need to be multi-purpose spaces, with more residential and more services introduced back in to them.
 
With the rise of just eat, Deliveroo and Uber eats, high streets are just packed with fast food gaffs as well. My local high street is ridiculous. Mc D’s, KFC, BK, Dominos, Papa Johns, pizza gogo, pizza 2nite, loads of kebab places, curry houses etc, and about 6 greasy spoons. It’s utterly farcical.
 
Business rents are too high and customers have to pay for parking, there's just no incentive for businesses or customers to be on the high street anymore. The more rents go up the more shops close, the less customers come and so the councils put up rents even further to compensate driving even more shops/customers away. I suspect it'll continue until the high streets are turned into residential areas and all shopping is done online. That'll be fun when Amazon etc join in on the "you said something offensive so we're terminating your account" mob mentality.
 
mmj_uk said:
Business rents are too high and customers have to pay for parking, there's just no incentive for businesses or customers to be on the high street anymore. The more rents go up the more shops close, the less customers come and so the councils put up rents even further to compensate driving even more shops/customers away. I suspect it'll continue until the high streets are turned into residential areas
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I can see that happening one day, just be residential areas instead with the odd shop, Maybe have more mall type complexes instead.
 
beachBOYken said:
In what way can they move with the times?

I get that digital is the way forward, but how can a high street shop adopt that approach and compete with the big boys like Spotify, Apple, Netflix...
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They cant. No shop can compete with the online giants. Thats why the high street is in decline. Make them social destinations because purely for shopping they have no future
 
I went through a phase when I bought blu-ray heavily from HMV.
But then the prices started creeping up (Although that's pretty much all over). But when HMV did do some sale stuff, they weren't as cheap as expected.

Plus they had this whole thing about sticking random blu-rays at random prices. You could walk in and find Iron Man 1 for like £10.00 today.
 
Pretty sparce amount of games in there. It'll be a shame, I do like to look at blue rays and 4k, my download speeds are still too slow for digital media and it's nice to window shop.

My GF's home town has nothing, Debenhams shutting, M&S closed, all you got is Iceland and home bargains, and boozers, and a barage, and a large shopping park on the outskirts
 
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This is really sad & Bad news for me :(

My Local HMV store is the only local place that I can buy 4k movies and many of the Blu-ray movies I want
As ordering them online can take ages to come sometimes (Am in channel islands) :(

That will be are second major big Store to close within days of each other (Are CO-OP Homemaker is closing down)
https://www.channelislands.coop/gg/home/homemaker-closing/
 
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I do have to wonder if my council is trying to kill the highstreet - rents are up, parking charges are up and they've been fiddling with the road layout for about 2 years now causing it to become grid locked if it is even slightly busy.
 
Rroff said:
I do have to wonder if my council is trying to kill the highstreet - rents are up, parking charges are up and they've been fiddling with the road layout for about 2 years now causing it to become grid locked if it is even slightly busy.
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Never confuse incompetence with malice.
 
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