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

Updated list of Sunrise stores to open MORE NEW SUNRISE LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED - Sunrise Records

SUNRISE ANNOUNCED STORES – UPDATED MARCH 22

BC
Metropolis at Metrotown, Burnaby
Coquitlam Centre, Coquitlam
Orchard Park, Kelowna
Pine Centre Mall, Prince George
Guildford Town Centre, Surrey

ALBERTA
Market Mall, Calgary
Southcentre Mall, Calgary
Sunridge Mall, Calgary
Chinook Centre, Calgary
Marlborough Mall, Calgary
Bonnie Doon SC, Edmonton
West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton
Londonderry Mall, Edmonton
Kingsway Mall, Edmonton
Peter Pond Mall, Fort McMurray
Prairie Mall SC, Grande Prairie
Park Place Mall, Lethbridge
Medicine Hat Mall, Medicine Hat

SASKATCHEWAN
Southland Mall, Regina
Lawson Heights Mall, Saskatoon
Cornwall SC, Regina
Midtown Plaza, Saskatoon

MANITOBA
Kildonan Place, Winnipeg
Polopark Mall, Winnipeg

ONTARIO
Bayfield Mall, Barrie
Georgian Mall, Barrie
Quinte Mall, Belleville
Bramalea City Centre, Brampton
Lynden Park Mall, Brantford
Burlington Mall, Burlington
Cambridge Centre, Cambridge
Sherway Gardens, Etobicoke
Cloverdale Mall, Etobicoke
Stone Road Mall, Guelph
Limeridge Mall, Hamilton
Fairview Park, Kitchener
Masonville Place, London
White Oaks Mall, London
Square One SC, Mississauga
Upper Canada Mall, Newmarket
Northgate SC, North Bay
Fairview Mall, North York
Place D’Orleans SC, Orleans
Carlingwood Mall, Ottawa
Rideau Centre, Ottawa
St. Laurent SC, Ottawa
Heritage Place, Owen Sound
Lansdowne Mall, Peterborough
Pickering Town Centre, Pickering
Station Mall, Sault Ste. Marie
Pen Centre, St. Catharines
New Sudbury Centre, Sudbury
Intercity SC, Thunder Bay
Devonshire Mall, Windsor

QUEBEC
Galeries d’Anjou, Anjou
Place du Royaume, Chicoutimi
Promenades Drummondville, Drummondville
Gatineau, Gatineau
Les Galeries de Hull, Gatineau
Carrefour Angrignon, Lasalle
Carrefour Laval, Laval
Les Galeries Chagnon, Lévis
Pointe-Claire, Pointe-Claire
Fleur de Lys, Quebec
Galeries Rive Nord, Repentigny
Place Rosemère, Rosemère
Carrefour du Nord, Saint-Jerome
Promenades St-Bruno, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Galeries Terrebonne, Terrebonne
Centre commercial Les Rivières, Trois-Rivières
La Grande place des Bois-Francs, Victoriaville
Galeries de la Capitale, Quebec

NOVA SCOTIA
Mic Mac Mall, Dartmouth

NEW BRUNSWICK
Champlain Mall, Dieppe
Regent Mall, Fredericton
McAllister Place, Saint John

 

Wow! I am very surprised (and happy) that Coquitlam in BC is on that list. HMV moved from a pretty decent sized store (like the same size as the Metrotown HMV in Burnaby now) into a smaller space about a third or quarter of the size when they restructured a few years ago. I didn't think that Sunrise would take on that space.
Hopefully it works out because it's a twenty minute walk to there instead of a 40 minute walk/transit to Metrotown or 30 minute drive over a toll bridge to Guildford Mall in Surrey.

Nothing on Vancouver Island though. That's surprising.

 

No "Erin Mills Town Centre" Mississauga as yet.
Still hoping.

 

Nothing in Montreal yet it seems.

 

I wonder if there's any possibility of keeping the big guitar in place? It's not as iconic as the Sam sign but still it is a distinctive. As for the HMV stores I never failed to enter one when I saw one but I rarely would buy anything and I'd feel like a louse.

 

Up until a couple of months ago I had no idea Carlingwood Mall in Ottawa had a Sunrise Records.
After stopping into the store a few weeks back I instantly wished I still had no idea it existed. Incredibly small store with an underwhelming selection.
We are incredibly lucky in Ottawa to have a handful of great independent stores like the Record Centre and Vertigo in this city.

 

If they are keeping Carlingwood open I doubt they will be taking over the Bayshore HMV location as the two malls are pretty close to each other.

 

I was in there on Thursday and already almost all of the music products were gone. But if anyone around here is in the market for a Harmonium vinyl box set or the last In-Flight Safety LP, I bet they'd still be in luck.

 

The Harmonium sets were gone, as was the XX ones, when I was in on Sunday, I expect they've been shifted to another store!!!

 

Is that list around 75-76 stores? So only 20 currently open HMV stores will live on as Sunrise.

 

Over to Gatineau presumably; I don't know what an HMV in a place like Rideau Centre was doing with, what, three copies of that thing? Anyway, I might swing by after work to see if there's any extra-stupid good deals on the remaining DVD/BR selection. It's at the point where I might go in for some things I wouldn't pay anywhere near retail for.

 

True, but you would have to think Bayshore would be a wiser choice. Bayshore is massive in comparison with better transit access.
Carlingwood has little drawing power for someone who doesn't live in the immediate area.

 

Sunrise coming to the Darkness (Dartmouth).

 

Rent in Carlingwood is probably significantly cheaper than Bayshore I would think.

 

One question would be where is Sunrise going to get all the stock to open up all these stores in such a short space of time, and will the demand from them for vinyl to stock the stores affect the availability to other independent stores?

 

Nice to see Sherway Gardens...I hope there's still a chance for Erin Mills.

 

In such situations, the survival/demise is often pre-determined by the existing lease and ability to re-assign the terms and conditions as much as any store traffic figures.

 

For the island proper, three locations:

East: Galeries d'Anjou
South: Carrefour Angrignon
West: Fairview Pointe-Claire

On the South Shore: Promenades St-Bruno (made the news recently for the pilot school plane crashes)
And across the river to the North: Carrefour Laval.

From the Facebook page, the megastore location doesn't seem to be an option. Too bad the warehouse location across the street that opened at the same time (in Les Cours Mont-Royal) was completely repurposed into a food court years ago.

 

What about Place Versailles?

 

2,000 vinyl titles per store for 75+ locations is 150,000 LPs if they only order 1 title per store. Hitting $3mil wholesale just on vinyl stock right out of the gate.

If they have a silent investor and labels are willing to do some back bends then I suppose they could fill orders with relative success on short notice.

 

Unless Shoppers decides to get into the music biz I really doubt it + I think Hard Rock is looking into relocation.

 

I agree with both comments. I am just having horrible images of the next time my wife drags me to Bayshore and there not being a music store to run into to keep my sanity!

 

They've made deals with most of their suppliers. I think a couple held out, but they've got most to agree to some sort of favourable terms. Still, they've got a lot of work to do to get all the stores stocked in time.

Not sure how their level of supply requirements will affect stores but I think there may well be some sort of an impact.

 

I hope it really doesn't have an impact on other stores.

What I do hope they do however is also have some sort of focus on cd's too, it still is the biggest selling medium out there after all, and I probably buy as many new releases on cd these days as I do albums, if I'm being perfectly honest there's some types of releases I prefer to get on cd than vinyl, but I'm finding I'm having to buy a lot more cd's on line now than what I used to, I certainly enjoy browsing cd's as much as browsing racks of vinyl.

 

The flagship store is now selling off awards, billboards, etc. in addition to appliances, furniture, etc.