Zavvi

Ravage1616

I say most people know this by now, but zavvi are pretty much seling every thing at really reduced rate! Even new titles. Worth calling in you might get few bargins!

Raze_them_all

hell yeah for liquidation!!(well not really for the people losing there jobs)

highgiant1985

Raze_them_all wrote: »

hell yeah for liquidation!!(well not really for the people losing there jobs)

was up there saturday bit disappointed was hoping there would be more off. Still ended up picking up REC for 4.99 and 28 weeks later for i think possibly same price so one or two bargins to have. Wasn't that much off most of the boxsets I thought though.

Does anyone know when it'll be closed for good? (I'm assuming the kilkenny zavvi isn't one of the few stores virgin megastores are looking at buying back.

Firetrap

I don't want it to close. It's better than Heartbeat City

jiggajt

I asked one of the staff what the story was and she said they dont know. I heard recently that Richard Branson was gonna buy them back for a quarter the price he sold them for. Might mean it might stay open. The only reason why they closed was because woolworths owns them.

Raze_them_all

jiggajt wrote: »

I asked one of the staff what the story was and she said they dont know. I heard recently that Richard Branson was gonna buy them back for a quarter the price he sold them for. Might mean it might stay open. The only reason why they closed was because woolworths owns them.

was it not because woolworths suppliers went kaput, which caused woolworths to go kaput too??

jiggajt

Maybe. Either way, They're still kaput!

Is there really that much of a reduction of stock in there. I went in last thursday and bought The wire season 4 & 5 and there was only 10% of marked price. Have they increased that? If they have,im gonna be pissed!

Sully

Raze_them_all wrote: »

was it not because woolworths suppliers went kaput, which caused woolworths to go kaput too??

Who supplied Zavvi. When they went bust, Zavvi lost all the internet sales and with high street sales down they simply struggled to survive.

Haven't heard anything bar speculation about them being bought back or sold to someone else. Shame to see them go - an excellent store and I think that shopping centre will die without them in KK.

porn_star

jiggajt wrote: »

I asked one of the staff what the story was and she said they dont know. I heard recently that Richard Branson was gonna buy them back for a quarter the price he sold them for. Might mean it might stay open. The only reason why they closed was because woolworths owns them.

woolworth's never owned Zavvi. Their company EUK were Zavvi's main suppliers, when Woolworths/EUK went bust they called in their debt, to which Zavvi wasn't able to pay and they had to go into administration/liquidation.
Richard Branson sold his stores to the directors of Virgin for a pound along with Virgin's debt. He's not buying them back and Virgin megastores won't be making a comeback. There is a couple of leases on stores that revert back to him when Zavvi pull out, as far as I know he then intends on renting them out again.
Nobody knows how long the stores are staying open for, there was 22 closed in the uk last week. HMV are supposedly interested in a few of the Irish stores, but that's about it. Zavvi is trying to get rid of as much stock as possible right now and get as much cash together for it's creditors. There's probably another couple of weeks left in it and that's it.

upthecats

Buddy works in Dublin agents who act for HMV as he tells me that MacDonagh store is one of the 5 they are after. HMV would be better than Zaavi anyway.:)

road_high

Sully wrote: »

I think that shopping centre will die without them in KK.

Granted they are one of the best stores in the place and my personal fav, I don't think the place would die without them.

kopykat

ya can get those cool t shirts foe half price now!kick ass! and every thing else is 30% off

Angus MacGyver

I was in there today and picked up some great bargins

Friday the 13th 1-8 €17.49
Grudge 1 and 2 €5.59
Withnail and I €2.09

I reckon prices will prob drop lower as time goes by

brettmirl

No HMV for Kilkenny to replace Zavvi

Music retailer Zavvi closed its branch in Blanchardstown in Dublin this morning with the loss of 13 jobs. This evening, the company's administrators, Ernst & Young, announced that another five of Zavvi's 11 stores in the Republic would be sold to rival music group HMV.

The stores are part of a deal to sell 14 stores, including nine in the UK, to HMV. The 110 workers at the stores in Dundalk, Dundrum, Liffey Valley, Limerick and Newbridge will transfer to HMV immediately.

E&Y said the other five stores in the Republic were continuing to trade, and talks on their sale were continuing with a number of interested parties. Tom Jack, joint administrator of Zavvi UK, said he was optimistic this could lead to the retention of jobs at the other outlets.

Earlier, the company said that almost 60 jobs were being lost with the closure of four branches in Northern Ireland.

They are among 353 job losses announced by administrators Ernst & Young across 18 stores in the UK. Last week 22 stores closed with 178 job losses.

The outlets closing are Castlecourt in Belfast with the loss of 22 jobs, Derry with the loss of 15 and Newry and Newtownabbey with the loss of 11 each.

The most recently opened branch, at Victoria Square shopping centre in Belfast, where 21 people are employed, is among 74 stores across the UK remaining open.

Zavvi - the former Virgin Megastore - fell into administration on Christmas Eve after it was crippled when its main supplier, Woolworths' Entertainment UK wholesaling division collapsed.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2009/0114/zavvi.html