HMV to close Bolton store

12:38pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 in News

HMV to close Bolton store HMV to close Bolton store

Bolton’s HMV store will shut despite administrators announcing it was safe from closure just two weeks ago.

The shop's 10 staff on Exchange Street are now under threat and they join around 1,500 other HMV workers facing redundancy in other branches.

The administrators axed 66 branches in a first wave of closures but there has been a second announcement of 37 closures. It will lead to another 464 job losses.

Manchester city centre’s iconic 90 Market Street store has already been earmarked for closure although the nearby Arndale Centre store is staying open.

Other smaller shops in Rochdale, Ashton, Wigan and Blackburn are also to close as part of the recovery plans for the music, DVD and games chain. The Trafford Centre site remains open.

Administrators at accountancy firm Deloitte announced the news today. All shops which will continue to trade in the meantime. However, it is expected that closures will take place over the next two months. HMV currently operates from 220 UK branches.

It opened a lot of smaller branches in the 2000s but was traditionally based only in large towns and city centres. The closures will return HMV to a smaller chain reflecting its size during its 1980s heydays.

Other north-west shops to close include Warrington, St Helen’s and Birkenhead. Other big cities are affected as well as Manchester, with closures in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London.

Comments(14)

boltonnut says...
1:03pm Wed 20 Feb 13

This is like a game of musical chairs.

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I, Ludicrous says...
1:04pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Long live X Records!

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tommy says...
2:34pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I, Ludicrous wrote:
Long live X Records!
Hell yes! X-Records will always live on!

I'm dreading coming back down to Bolton again. I went last weekend and had to walk through towards the train station. It was the most depressing thing I think I've ever seen.

I had no idea Dixons had closed either...

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limey redneck says...
3:53pm Wed 20 Feb 13

typical of these type companies,they lul you into a false sence of security & then bam,they kick you while youre down.

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xxenigmaxx says...
4:47pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I dread to think what this empty shop will become probably yet another gambling establishment

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Don Kiddick says...
5:23pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Well, sadly HMV won't be missed - on my part anyway. I've been in a few times but looked at the prices and thought "You're having a giraffe!". Halfords is the same, stupidly laughable prices compared to Amazon (on fact they are commonly known as Halfrauds) plus with Amazon, you don't have to put up with horrendously loud music designed for drugged-up teens when you're buying your spark plugs. Halfords Middlebrook - full shelves, empty store - days numbered. The economy needs ro re-adjust itself and the price p**s-takers like HMV and Halfords must die to make way for a new era. Teens have no jobs and no money, I'm a minted 40-something with more available cash than i know what to do with - give me a high street to spend it on where I'm not subjected to X-Factor pulp at every available opportunity, give me interesting eateries instead of 70s steak bars and pie shops. The idiots in local government think their out-dated ideas will help - really? Mark Zuclerburg's character in the film - ". . . my colleagues and I are doing things that no-one in this room . . . are intellectually or creatively capable of doing" The sooner the self-serving old dinosaurs on our council are replaced by creative, dynamic and driven young minds - the sooner our town will take a fresh direction and the £48m folly of a bus station will have a use.

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Don Kiddick says...
5:39pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Cliff Morris can barely walk he is that over-weigh, he shuffles through the corridors of our town hall like a lumbering walrus across rocks. He's old and decrepit - how can this waste of blood and guts EVER bring Bolton into the modern era? He has no concept of today's world and how it is changing and so is powerless to halt Bolton's slide into destitution - he is simply not equipped intellectually to stop the ship sinking. He's Atari in a Playstation world, he is not capable of hatching ideas, he is not capable of grasping concepts and their implications and possibilities. He will however be able to recite the Pasty Shoppe price list from memory. Morris is the problem and he must be removed and replaced with someone with the vision to re-generate Bolton and the drive to bang his (or her!) fist on the table instead of using fat fingers to grasp their pasty money.

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Don Kiddick says...
5:49pm Wed 20 Feb 13

The Bolton News is no better, a useless rag which has as much to do with journalism as Oscar Pistorius has to relationship councilling. If Bolton had a press that took the council to task and cast a watchful eye over their every move (you know, like a real newspaper does) this town would be much better for it. But no, it's far easier to report that Elsie's cat has a remarkable likeness to Cheryl Cole. The Bolton News is a shameful comic not fit to serve chips in.

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Don Kiddick says...
6:06pm Wed 20 Feb 13

It was all a dream, teenagers amd twenty-somethings out every night, expensive haircuts, clothes with the must-have designer badges, arms full of shopping bags on a Saturday. All a dream founded on credit cards doled out by wreckless banks - "work in a call-centre do you? - oh that's okay, here's a few grands worth of debt to use to prop up your low self-esteem and under-achievement, go get some retail therapy and pay us later". I guess I was dull when I bought a house at 21, but it's paid for now along with the others i bought along the way. I guess i was poor because i couldn't afford Toni & Guy or Starbucks - it was those dam mortgages you see . . . i couldn't afford to try and be cool. Those days are gone, the young no longer have the credit euphoria, neither do the Jones who just had to have a new TV and car every year on the tick - it's all gone and taken the economy with it. No going back, no cash, no credit and our local economy must react or die.

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Don Kiddick says...
6:17pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Now shush, our Rioja Shiraz is on X-Factor singin a bit of Mariah - how the talentless waste of space with the IQ of a sausage hasn't been snapped up by a talent scout by now, I'll never know. Anyway, she's taken a night off from breeding and bitterness to emulate her role-model.

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ownerdriver says...
8:53pm Wed 20 Feb 13

Don Kiddick wrote:
Now shush, our Rioja Shiraz is on X-Factor singin a bit of Mariah - how the talentless waste of space with the IQ of a sausage hasn't been snapped up by a talent scout by now, I'll never know. Anyway, she's taken a night off from breeding and bitterness to emulate her role-model.
Jesus Christ Don I bet you feel better getting that lot off your chest. Agree with everything you said though.

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BWFC71 says...
8:55pm Wed 20 Feb 13

I just hope that Cllr Cliff "3 jobs" Morris has egg all over his fat face. Only a week or so ago when they announced the first round of closures he was bleating how much confidence HMV has to choose to keep the Bolton store open!!!!

What a pathetic individual.

I just hope that this now opens his eyes open to what is happening to his " beloved" town centre - although I get the feeling ot won't!

COUNCILLORS OF ALL PARTIES GET YOR ACT TOGETHER BEFORE THE TOWN CENTRE BECOMES A RELIC OF PAST SUCCESS - WHAT YOU HAVE ALL DONE TO THIS TOWN CENTRE IS A COMPLETE DISGRACE!

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hoboh2o says...
7:11am Thu 21 Feb 13

They knew the 3.5% tax rise was coming to drain that little extra you had to spend in their store, so they thought 'sod it' and left.

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myfanwy7 says...
3:28pm Fri 22 Feb 13

Don Kiddick wrote:
Cliff Morris can barely walk he is that over-weigh, he shuffles through the corridors of our town hall like a lumbering walrus across rocks. He's old and decrepit - how can this waste of blood and guts EVER bring Bolton into the modern era? He has no concept of today's world and how it is changing and so is powerless to halt Bolton's slide into destitution - he is simply not equipped intellectually to stop the ship sinking. He's Atari in a Playstation world, he is not capable of hatching ideas, he is not capable of grasping concepts and their implications and possibilities. He will however be able to recite the Pasty Shoppe price list from memory. Morris is the problem and he must be removed and replaced with someone with the vision to re-generate Bolton and the drive to bang his (or her!) fist on the table instead of using fat fingers to grasp their pasty money.
I take it you'll be standing at the next election then. There's no doubting your self-confidence. Democracy needs good people like you.

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