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To be fair, Our Price was proper shit too...
Its sad but with any high street retailer if they fail to adapt to the changing requirements of their customers then they will fail. The truth of it is my local hmv used to be always busy but after the last time they went into administration they changed to the new style it’s days were numbered, and I imagine that it was not unique within the company.
Tower records in hlasgow in the distant past was great they seemed to actually employ people who cared about music, had a vast range, plus comics and specialist mags.
The staff at fopp always seemed good too.
As much as I love buying CDs and Blu-rays I'm not surprised that HMV is fecked given the people I have met at uni age...
(Also, I've found that a surprising amount of teenagers on computer science based degrees also have never installed windows, built a PC, owned PC (or owned a mac, literally no desktop or laptop computers!), and have no idea what a megabyte might be - so I've decided that teens these days are uninterested in virtually everything that isn't sport and reality shows)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I buy some CDs but that's the odd cheap one from a supermarket or an online buy. I'm not good enough at deferring my gratification to the next time I'm in a town big enough to have a HMV.
They've been selling music since records began.
So the company is saved but my store is among one of the 27 thats closing from immediate effect.
Literally immediately.
So I've had a text to say 'don't come in this afternoon, thats it'.
Pissed.
Sad, I'll never see the majority of those guys again..
Guess I better get down the job centre!
By the sounds of it, they've bought specific assets rather than the company. Presumably to avoid redundancy liability etc. Hope you find something else and are not too out of pocket.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youAll the early and mid shift are already at the store so theyre just hanging about waiting for news to then text on to us late shifties.
Aye ya ya!
There's hope for the company as he's done a good job turning around the Canadian stores. And he seems genuinely into music, rather than being an asset stripper.
@skunkwerx - do you have a list of the shops that are closing? If one of them is Glasgow Argyle St, the guitar shop I work for may have a vacancy.
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@ICBM Glasgow Braehead is closing but not Argyle Street.
Full list of ones to be closed is here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47132310