HMV Going into Admin

[peteyt]

Its all about iTunes though... :/ Never brought anything from HMV anyway.

Not really some people like myself prefer to buy physical copies of products so iTunes isn't for us.

[Aiden]

Not really some people like myself prefer to buy physical copies of products so iTunes isn't for us.

some though

[GommeInc]

What I don't understand is why these businesses refuse to adapt.

Rent, cost of stock (affecting cost to the customer), transport costs, international businesses (Amazon), huge all-purpose retailers (Tesco, Sainsbury's), they're an inconvenience... I could go on but that's the general gift of why bricks and mortar shopping is now becoming a thing of the past (I studied retail and contemporary issues a while back)

Consumers are to blame because they lack an interest in walking to a store because they're immensely lazy and not wanting to pay the extra few pounds, while businesses are to blame for not reducing rent, giving a good deal to the customer and being lack luster in their approach. Rent is another issue too, they do not necessarily own the buildings and the owners charge horrendous amounts though that is partially down to them upping the price back in the 90s when high street stores were doing well and when online retailers came in landlords didn't think to lower the rent to help make them compete.

[peteyt]

Looks like they are no longer allowing people to use their gift cards which is always bad

[xxMATTGxx]

Looks like they are no longer allowing people to use their gift cards which is always bad

Doesn't that always happen when a shop goes into admin? Pretty sure they did that with GAME.

[Kieran]

If you bought the cards at Tesco you can use them there and also if they were bought by credit card you're covered anyway.

[Chippiewill]

If you bought the cards at Tesco you can use them there and also if they were bought by credit card you're covered anyway.

ASDA too, good on them.

[wixard]

don't know about the UK but the HMV staff of ireland are not getting their holiday/overtime/REGULAR pay for the past couple weeks, so a few of the stores that still can are sitting in

https://www.facebook.com/StaffHMVIreland

[Martin]

Such a shame really, I thought it was quite a handy shop really. Had to remove all the gift cards from work yesterday. Personally I didnt see this coming, it always seems really busy when I go in there, but I guess its more browsers than actual sales, since more and more are downloading online and stuff I guess

[Chippiewill]

Not so much downloadin (Except for music but HMV sells a lot more), that's still not prevalent enough. It's more Amazon that's taking business.