Hilco cutting three staff roles across most HMV stores - report

HMV's new owner Hilco will axe three staff positions across most stores in an effort to trim the annual wage bill.

That's according to The Times (via MCV, which extrapolated that the job-losses could amount to around 400 all told, saving HMV nearly £8 million a year.

The Times' source was an internal HMV memo, which named the in-danger staff roles as security guards, cashiers and supervisors.

Hilco declined to comment when contacted by Eurogamer this morning. HMV had no comment to make, either.

Hilco, a restructuring company, rescued HMV a couple of weeks ago. The plan is to keep 141 stores open, ditch tablets and dedicate more space to music and visual entertainment ranges.