HMV Canada to close all 102 stores April 30 (Sunrise to take over approx 70 HMV stores)*

Noticed somewhere that they don't have a plan for Halifax. (Where there are 2 HMVs...)

 

These are only the initial batch and look to be locations were HMV stores are shortly closing. It states in the article that further announcements of new stores will be made in the future.

 

60 something locations that are still up in the air.

30 apparently getting Sunrise locations.

The bottom 3 are new Sunrise locations that may have had different city/mall names than HMV's site.

Robson Street Vancouver, British
Coquitlam Centre Coquitlam , British
Guildford Town Centre Surrey, British Columbia
Willowbrook Shopping Centre Langley , British Columbia
Woodgrove Nanaimo , British Columbia
Mayfair Victoria, British Columbia
Pine Centre Prince George , British
Market Mall Calgary , Alberta
Southcentre Mall Calgary , Alberta
Chinook Centre Calgary , Alberta
The Core Shopping Centre Calgary , Alberta
CrossIron Mills Rocky View, Alberta
Bower Place Red Deer, Alberta
South Edmonton Common Edmonton, Alberta
Southgate Edmonton, Alberta
Millwoods Town Centre Edmonton, Alberta
Kingsway Edmonton, Alberta
Bonnie Doon Centre Edmonton, Alberta
Lloyd Mall Lloydminster, Alberta
Midtown Plaza Saskatoon , Saskatchewan
Lawson Heights Mall Saskatoon , Saskatchewan
Cornwall Centre Regina, Saskatchewan
Portage Place Winnipeg, Manitoba
St. Vital Centre Winnipeg, Manitoba
Intercity Shopping Centre Thunder Bay , Ontario
New Sudbury Centre Sudbury , Ontario
Devonshire Mall Windsor , Ontario
Masonville Place London, Ontario
Conestoga Mall Waterloo, Ontario
Fairview Park Mall Kitchener , Ontario
Georgian Mall Barrie, Ontario
Cambridge Centre Cambridge , Ontario
Bramalea City Centre Bramalea, Ontario
Upper Canada Mall Newmarket , Ontario
Vaughan Mills Vaughan , Ontario
Erin Mills Town Centre Mississauga, Ontario
Mapleview Centre Burlington, Ontario
Sherway Etobicoke, Ontario
Eastgate Square Stoney Creek, Ontario
Dufferin Mall Toronto, Ontario
Fairview Mall Willowdale, Ontario
Toronto Superstore Toronto , Ontario
Scarborough Town Centre Scarborough , Ontario
Oshawa Centre Oshawa, Ontario
Lansdowne Place Peterborough, Ontario
Cataraqui Town Centre Kingston, Ontario
Bayshore Shopping Centre Nepean, Ontario
Les Promenades Gatineau Gatineau, Quebec
Rideau Centre Ottawa, Ontario
St Laurent Shopping Centre Ottawa, Ontario
Carrefour du Nord St Jérome , Quebec
Place Rosemère Rosemère, Quebec
Fairview Pointe-Claire Pointe-Claire , Quebec
Carrefour Laval Laval , Quebec
Galeries d'Anjou Ville d'Anjou , Quebec
Galeries Rive Nord Repentigny, Quebec
Place Versailles Montréal, Quebec
Carrefour Angrignon Lasalle , Quebec
Montreal Megastore Montréal, Quebec
Quartier 10X30 (Brossard) Brossard, Quebec
Carrefour Richelieu St. Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Les Promenades Drummondville Drummondville , Quebec
Galeries de la Capitale Québec, Quebec
Place Laurier Ste-Foy , Quebec
Les Galleries Chagnon Lévis , Quebec
Carrefour de l'Estrie Sherbrooke, Quebec
Champlain Place Dieppe, New Brunswick
Halifax Shopping Centre Halifax , Nova Scotia
Mic Mac Mall Dartmouth , Nova Scotia
Avalon Mall St.John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Peter Pond Mall – Fort McMurray, AB
Centre commercial Les Rivières – Trois-Rivieres, QC
La Grande place des Bois-Francs – Victoriaville, QC

 

West Edmonton Mall store today still had only 30% off on CDs Blu-rays and DVDs

 

You and me both

 

I'm sure we're not the only ones. Back in it's prime A & B Sound was the best.

 

A & B Sound was the best record store in the world!

 

Just left the flagship store on Yonge St.
Empty handed I might add.
They need deeper discounts on the stuff that is left.
Would love to buy one of those King Crimson box sets.
Sticker price is 329.00.
I can buy it from Amazon for 170.00.
The Stones mono CD boxes are gone.
Lots of DVD but only 30%.

 

Popped in to the location at the Avalon Mall in St. John's, NL. It's pretty much picked clean with respect to vinyl, which was pretty meagre in there at the best of times and CDs. Regular priced CDs were only 30% off. They had some deals on the two for a given price but there was no selection to tempt me. Left empty handed. To be honest, if Sunrise takes over that location in the mall I still won't be in there much as I can't stand the mall.

 

I wouldn't go quite that far, but for an A/V electronics store their selection of CDs was pretty incredible. Even in secondary markets the outlets had a great selection of indie and import discs.

 

A&B was cheaper than anywhere else, that's why people liked it so much.

 

Western Canada was known as the best place in the world to buy CDs due to A & B Sound. New releases were $11.88 or $12.88. There were also Super Sales a few times a year about every 2 months where white tag CDs were 20% off and red tag CDs were 10% off. Lot of white tag CD were regular priced at $18.99.

 

I remember their back catalogue being quite comprehensive as well. I bought many complete or almost complete artists' catalogues in one go a lot.

The last few years they had that sale every long weekend. The opportunity to have three fantastic days driving to the various locations ranging from Marine Drive near the airport to Abbotsford was fun.

 

I was in the St.Vital Centre (Winnipeg) HMV on Tuesday and was talking to a couple of guys who work there. There were 4 stores here, they told me the KP Mall and Polo Park locations were getting Sunrised, their location and Portage Place were not. I asked them how they knew, and they told me that their location and Portage Place were selling off store fixtures, racking etc and that Polo Park and KP locations were not.

 

Their Boxing Day sales were pretty awesome as well.

 

Well they better fill the stores with vinyl, new and used. The record show this weekend was very busy with both young and old dropping big money on over priced Scarborough basement pressings. The market is hot and they should really capitalize.

Problem with HMV was too much floor space given to movies, tv shows, and toys. I mean they had rows of dust covered DVD's! People download or by bluray now. So whenever you went in there to buy music you left empty handed and went online to buy the cd or lp you were looking for since they only stock "best of" cd's and the new pop releases.

 

Interesting. Easy to understand why Polo Park is getting a Sunrise since it's the biggest mall in the city, but isn't St. Vital the second biggest? I've never been to the other two.

 

Not sure, St. Vital and the KP mall I don't find much different. Yep, I'd say Polo Park is the biggest. My theory about St.Vital not getting a Sunrise is that St. Vital has the only London Drugs in the city, who also sell vinyl. But I'm just guessing at that being the cause...

 

I didn't realize LD sold vinyl. They must have started that recently...the last time I was there (probably Christmas 2014) they didn't have any music at all, that I saw.

 

Isn't the Blu/DVD split still 30/70 or 20/80?

 

They may have started carrying vinyl shortly after the date you mentioned. The one here has always carried BD and DVD movies and concerts, and CDs. They also sell audio/video equipment and have a small listening room.

 

Vancouver London Drugs(HQ located here) has had vinyl for at least 5 years.

 

Has the discount changed at the flagship store.
My wife was at Sherway Gardens Mall today and it was 60-70% off

 

It was still 30% off CDs, DVD, and BR at St Laurent today. They had also received more stock in as they certainly had CDs they didn't have a couple of weeks ago, they also had a Bowie "Who Can I Be Now " box, which was about $130 after discount.

 

Same thing at the St.Vital location here in Winnipeg, they had some stock that wasn't there a couple of days ago. I overheard someone at the till saying they had got more items in from store(s) already closed in Sask. I picked up Alexisonfire blu ray concert for my son that wasn't there a few days ago, $14.99 then 30% off.