HMV is launching its new gamin center at one of its flagship stores in Edinburgh. It will turn itself into an old fashioned arcade where you can hang out with your mates, smoke round the corner and get the older lads to buy cider for you.
In all seriousness this decision makes perfect commercial sense - the disappearance of old style arcades (which I’m not afraid to admit took up a fair bit of my youth), the slow decline of traditional forms of income for record stores in addition to the complaints from urban ‘yoofs’ that there is nothing to do leaves a gap in market for a retailer who is willing to provide a top class gaming experience for you and 15 of your mates for the princely sum of 3 quid an hour.
HMV are on to a winner with this. Mark my words.
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Great idea. And about time they lifted their ‘game’. It’s been one bad decision after another for these guys so maybe this will bring them back.
I personally am well up for a zombie shoot ‘em up in the arcades. Bring it on.
Well done HMV. Maybe you’re not such a bunch of monkeys after all.
Cheap cider by the litre here we come.
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