The HMV Shop in Broadmead, Bristol, reopened this week (April 3) following a grand refurbishment.
New signage had been added to the store with a new unique colour assigned to the Bristol store.
The top floor is now now home to the vinyl and CD collections and a cosy book shop corner with seating has also been added.
We asked customers what their thoughts are on the new look.
New signage had been added to the store with a new unique colour assigned to the Bristol store.
The top floor is now now home to the vinyl and CD collections and a cosy book shop corner with seating has also been added.
We asked customers what their thoughts are on the new look.
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00:00The Bristol HMV store has reopened after a big refurbishment.
00:04Let's find out what locals think of the new look.
00:07It's much more my kind of thing. I'm well into retro t-shirts and all that.
00:13When I've got the money, I will definitely be going in there and picking up quite a bit of stuff, to be honest.
00:20I like it. I think it's funky. It's really cool. I'm so happy it's open again.
00:24Yeah, we've just gone back in because I had a voucher and I was like, we can buy things again.
00:28I like how the vinyls are behind the desk now.
00:31Yeah, there's so much more. The vinyls are way more important in it now.
00:36There's so much more in this section.
00:38We've just come for the vinyls.
00:39So it's really, really cool.
00:41It's really good. I enjoy it.
00:42I like browsing the DVDs as well.
00:44Yeah.
00:45It's good.
00:46The upstairs looks really, really interesting.
00:48I like the painting they've done on the stairs as well. It's just made it a bit more funky. It's good.
00:52So I've been coming to HMV since I was a little boy, really.
00:55I'm in broad read on all sorts of places, so I was a bit...
00:58I think I've seen the evolution of HMV since it's gone through different hands
01:02and since people have started to buy vinyl and things like that.
01:06I guess I'm 52, so I still buy CDs.
01:09And I was a bit worried that the new refurb would have shrunk that.
01:11It doesn't seem to have done so much.
01:14Yeah, first thoughts, not as terrifying as I thought.
01:17They focus a lot on the merchandise, which I think is probably quite...
01:21That's where they get their profits from.
01:23So I was a bit worried it was going to be taken over by pretend Japanese toys and stuff.
01:27But it looks like they've kept the music upstairs relatively the same.
01:30I've got one point which I was going to actually say to them.
01:32I'm sure they must know about this already.
01:34If you go upstairs and have a look at the CD racks, the top rack...
01:37I mean, even for someone that's my height, it's quite hard to look at.
01:40And I think they probably need to address that for accessibility purposes.
01:43But in terms of new products and new CDs and stuff, I will still keep coming here, definitely.
01:48I think it's quite nice.
01:50As you walk in, you just feel welcome. You know where everything is.
01:53You can see everything clearly. It's a really nice layout.
01:57Do you have a favourite section of the store?
02:00I'm quite big on the Funko Pop, so I quite enjoy going and having a browse, seeing what's about there.
02:05So, yeah, that's for me and the posters.