The 19 stores set to close their doors are:
- Carousel, WA
- Garden City, WA
- Glen Waverley, VIC
- Green Hills, NSW
- Hay Street Mall, WA
- Highpoint, VIC
- Hornsby, NSW
- Macarthur Square, NSW
- Macquarie Centre, NSW
- Malvern Central, VIC
- Marion, SA
- Newmarket, NZ
- Parramatta, NSW
- Robina Town Centre, QLD
- Sunshine Plaza, QLD
- Warringah Mall, NSW
- West Lakes, SA
- Woden, ACT
- Wollongong Central, NSW
You’re not kidding. At least four floors in the city store. The owner of all those bricks and mortar is going to need to get creative to tenant all that again.
Maybe JB Hifi? :p
Remember when they had all those tiny stores dotted around the CBD? Remember when they had a huge CD selection?
Given that the average music consumer just has a Spotify or YouTube subscription and occasionally buys a piece of collectible vinyl if it’s something very special (like the new Taylor Swift album or something), there’s probably no economic case to be made for multiple racks of CDs, unless you build it out into a specialist new-music retailer like Tower Records in Tokyo or something.