VIRGIN MEGASTORES STORE LOCATIONS

Main articles: Virgin Megastores

This is a list of the locations of Virgin Megastores stores worldwide.

Contents

UK

Ireland

Germany

France

Greece

USA

Canada (historical)

Australia

North Asia

North Africa and Middle East

XS stores

UK

★ Aberdeen: One on Union Street with a ''Virgin Game Store'' next door and a smaller one inside the Bon Accord-St Nicholas Centre.

★ Basingstoke: There is a small single-storey store in Festival Place.

★ Belfast: (Castlecourt Shopping Centre)

★ Birmingham: A two story store is located in The Pavilion Shopping Centre/High Street.

★ Braintree: Single floor small store

★ Bournemouth: Castlepoint Shopping Centre

★ Bluewater: A two storied store is located on Thames Walk, opposite the Water Circus. Upstairs houses DVDs, games and other products such as phones by Virgin Mobile. Downstairs houses music, books, t-shirts and accessories.

★ Brighton: (Churchill Square)

★ Bristol: Inside Cribbs Causeway Mall.

★ Cardiff: Two-storey store located at the Capitol Shopping Centre on the corner of Queen Street, Cardiff and Churchill Way.


★ Carlisle: In the Lanes Shopping Centre

★ Chester: On Eastgate Street.

★ Coventry: A large store in a prominent location on the city's upper shopping precinct

★ Crawley: (County Mall)

★ Derry/Londonderry: (Foyleside Shopping Centre)

★ Dudley: (Merry Hill Shopping Centre)

★ Dundee: (Wellgate Centre) Large single storey branch with Panmure Street access

★ Exeter: Next to the Princesshay redevelopment. A site on the new development is reserved for a new store.

★ Falkirk: High Street, small branch, opposite the How Gate on pedestrian high street

★ Gateshead: (Metro Centre) small branch, former Our Price next door to BHS and close to M&S.

★ Glasgow: One store on Buchanan Street, which is the largest record store in Europe with three floors; a smaller store on Argyle Street and also a medium sized branch at Glasgow Fort, Easterhouse.

★ Grimsby: One store, located inside Freshney Place Shopping Centre.

★ Hereford: Commercial Street

★ Hull: Princes Quay

★ Leeds: Leeds Shopping Plaza: Large two storied store which opened in 1997 and at the time was claimed to be the largest Virgin Megastore outside of London. Prior to the opening of this store Virgin Megastore was formerly located on Briggate.

★ Leicester: (The Shires)

★ Liverpool, Clayton Square Shopping Centre: Large two floored store in the city centre with hourly rate Internet access.

★ London: Camden Near Tube station. Ground floor is home to CDs and Music Equipment and Basement is home to DVDs and Games Consoles/Games and the Stock Room and Processing Units

★ London: Croydon (Centrale) Shopping Centre

★ London: Bromley (The Glades) Shopping Centre

★ London: Oxford Street at St Giles' Circus

★ London: Piccadilly Circus; the branch near Lillywhite's has now been joined by Number 1 Piccadilly, formerly owned by Tower Records)

★ London: King's Road King's Walk shopping centre

★ London: Bishopsgate; The Bishopsgate store is located opposite Liverpool Street Station at 152 Bishopsgate. The store is spread over two floors, the Ground Floor and the Basement. The Ground Floor houses CD, Singles, DVD and Games Chart and New Release Titles while the Basement floor is given over to Back Catalogue CD, DVD and Music DVD as well as the Virgin Mobile concession.

★ Loughborough: The Rushes

★ Manchester: Large three-floored store closed in 2005; leaving only a smaller Express store remaining in the city centre, although there is still a larger store in the Trafford Centre. A new Manchester city centre Virgin Megastore officially opened on 21 November 2006 in the Manchester Arndale Centre (See Video Of The Launch).

★ Milton Keynes: Two storied store located in the recently opened Midsummer Place in Milton Keynes City Centre.

★ Middlesbrough: {Captain Cook Square}

★ Newcastle Upon Tyne : (Northumberland Street)

★ Newry: (Buttercrane Shopping Centre)

★ Newtownabbey (Abbey Centre)

★ Northampton : Large store based in the Grosvenor Shopping Centre in the town centre. Includes a Virgin Mobile concession.

★ Norwich: Castle Mall, White Lion Gate

★ Nottingham: Virtually in Nottingham's Market Square on a very busy highstreet.

★ Oxford: A two storied store is located on Cornmarket Street. The ground floor houses CDs and various items and offers. The upstairs houses DVDs, a bigger range of CDs and Video Games.

★ Peterborough:Store is located in the Queensgate shopping centre

★ Plymouth: One store in the Drake Circus shopping centre, and another on Armada Way.

★ Portsmouth: Branson opened his first store here in the (now demolished) (Tricorn Centre), once a major calling for the UK's unsigned music scene. It has since relocated to (Commercial Road)

★ Reading, in the Broad Street Mall

★ Sheffield, Fargate/Orchard Square: Large two floored store in the city centre refurbished in 2004. The ground floor houses music whilst downstairs houses video and classical music.

★ Sheffield Meadowhall: single-floor megastore which opened July/August 2006

★ Shrewsbury: Located on Pride Hill, two storeys.

★ Southampton: Two-storey store on Above Bar Street.

★ Stevenage: There is a single floored Megastore at the end of the High Street in the new town.

★ Stirling :Thistle Marches, small branch, opposite toilets

★ Taunton :Fore Street, two storey branch

★ Watford: A three floor, relatively large store in The Harlequin Shopping Centre.

★ Woking: A single floor, medium sized store in the Peacocks Centre.

Ireland

★ Dublin

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★ Dundrum Town Centre

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★ Blanchardstown Centre

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★ Liffey Valley Shopping Centre

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★ The Square

★ Cork, Grand Parade

★ Limerick, Crescent Shopping Centre

★ Dundalk, Marshes Shopping Centre

★ Newbridge, County Kildare, WhiteWater Shopping Centre
There were formerly a number of high street Virgin stores, including an extremely large one on the Dublin river front, but all these have closed, with the chain moving solely to shopping centres.

Germany

Virgin Megastore withdrew from the German market in 1994, amid complaints that the country's shop-closing law was too restrictive; However, Virgin returned to Germany with a new store (not a "Megastore") that opened in the Berlin Hauptbahnhof central station in Berlin in May 2006.

France

★ Paris City Centre:

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★ Champs-Élysées 52/60 avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris

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★ Louvre shopping mall Galerie du Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli 75001 Paris

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★ Grands boulevards, 5 bd Montmartre 75002 Paris

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★ Montmartre, 15 boulevard Barbès 75018 Paris

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★ Gare de Lyon Salle des Fresques Place Louis Armand 75571 Paris

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★ gare Montparnasse Place Raoul Dautr 75015 Paris

★ Paris Metro

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★ CC Belle Epine 94521 Thiais

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★ CC Carré Sénart 53 Place Ouest 77566 Lieusaint

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★ CC BAY2 51 mail Ouest - Collégien Marne La Vallée 77616 Torcy

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★ Orly Airport Aérogare Ouest Hall 1 Central 94547 Orly

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★ CC Bercy 24 place de l'Europe 94564 Charenton Le Pont

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★ 1 av de la source de Bièvres 78180 Montigny Le Bretonneux

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★ Centre Commercial Carrefour RN 3 77410 Claye-Souilly

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★ 87, Place des Arbalétriers 93200 Saint Denis

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★ Galerie commerciale Gare RER Puteaux 92080 La Défense

★ Archamps Centre Commercial Alliance 74160 Archamps

★ Avignon CC Cap Sud 84000 Avignon

★ Bayonne 27 rue Victor Hugo 64110 Bayonne

★ Bordeaux 15/19, place Gambetta 33000 Bordeaux

★ Bordeaux CC Mérignac Soleil Porte 4 Avenue de la Somme 33700 Bordeaux

★ Dunkerque Pôle Marine Quai des Fusiliers Marins 59140 Dunkerque

★ Lyon, 41/43 rue du Président Edouard Herriot

★ Lyon, Le Patio, 5 Place Charles Beraudier

★ Marseille CC Géant Barnéoud Les Pennes Mirabeau 13170 Plan de Campagne

★ Marseille 75 Rue Saint-Férréol 13251 Marseille

★ Metz 61/63 rue Serpenoise 57000 Metz

★ montpellier Les Halles Castelanne rue de la Loge 34000 Montpellier

★ Nice 15 av. Jean Médecin 06000 Nice

★ Rennes 6/10 rue Lebastard 35000 Rennes

★ Rouen 14 rue Guillaume le Conquérant 76000 Rouen

★ Strasbourg: 30 rue du 22 novembre 67000 Strasbourg

★ Toulon Centre Commercial Grand Ciel 83130 Toulon-La Garde

★ Toulouse 28 rue Alsace Lorraine 31000 Toulouse

Greece

★ Athens: Stadiou 7-9, Syntagma Square

★ Athens: Fraggoklissias & Granikou St., (Village Maroussi Cinemas)

★ Athens: Andrea Papandreou 35, (The Mall Shopping Center, Maroussi)

★ Athens: Petrou Ralli & Thivon Ave. (Village Park Cinemas, Ag. Ioannis Rentis)

★ Athens: Dousmani 26, Glyfada

★ Athens: Anonymou 3, Ilion (Escape Shopping Center)

★ Athens: Ymittou 110 & Hremonidou St, Pangrati

★ Thessaloniki: Giannitson & Koletti St (City Gate)

★ Heraklion: Dedalou 15

★ Chania: Hatzimihail Giannari 27

USA

'List of current stores in the USA:'

★ Tempe, Arizona at Arizona Mills

★ Los Angeles, California:

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★ The Sunset Strip, West Hollywood, California (was the first megastore in North America)

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★ Hollywood and Highland, Hollywood, California

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★ Ontario Mills, Ontario, California

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★ Orange, California at The Block at Orange

★ San Francisco, California at Stockton St. and Market St.

★ Denver, Colorado at the 16th Street Mall

★ Orlando, Florida at Walt Disney World's Downtown Disney

★ Times Square, New York
★ The "Flagship" store of America

★ Union Square, New York

★ Grapevine, Texas at Grapevine Mills
'List of stores now closed:'

★ Costa Mesa, California (closed September 2005)

★ Sacramento, California (closed August 2005)

★ Burbank, California (closed February 2005 due to flooding)

★ The Forum Shops at Caesar's, Las Vegas, Nevada (closed January 2005)

★ Long Island, New York (closed May 2004)

★ Chicago, Illinois at Michigan Avenue (closed July 2007)

★ New Orleans, Louisiana (closed August 2005 due to Hurricane Katrina)

★ Miami, Florida (closed June 2006)

★ Columbus, Ohio (closed May 2004)

★ Dallas, Texas (closed June 2006)

★ Boston, Massachusetts (closed November 2006)

★ Salt Lake City, Utah at Gateway District (closed July 2007)

Canada (historical)

★ Vancouver, British Columbia - Richmond at Vancouver International Airport (Virgin Books and Music outlet)

★ Calgary, Alberta - at Calgary International Airport (Virgin Books and Music outlet)
The only Virgin Megastore in Canada was in Downtown Vancouver, on the corner of Robson and Burrard. This location closed in September 2005, and has changed ownership to HMV, which has a similar inventory. There was a project in Toronto, the Metropolis development, in which Virgin was meant to join. However, due to the dominance of HMV in Canada, Virgin decided to exit the Canadian market entirely, with the exception of a newly opened ''Virgin Books and Music'' outlet at YVR's [1] International Terminal & YYC's [2] International Terminal as well as a Virgin/Relay store in YYZ's[3] Terminal 3. There is also a new Virgin Megastore in Dundas Square, located in Toronto.

Australia

★ The Jam Factory, South Yarra

★ Knox O-zone

★ George Street, Sydney

★ Myer Queen Street, Brisbane

North Asia

★ 16 stores in Japan:

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★ Utsunomiya, Tochigi

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★ Kita-Senju, Tokyo

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★ Ikebukuro, Tokyo

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★ Ueno, Tokyo

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★ Nagoya, Aichi

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★ Atsugi, Kanagawa

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★ Kawasaki, Kanagawa

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★ Shiki, Saitama

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★ Matsuyama, Ehime

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★ Umeda, Osaka

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★ Mito, Ibaraki

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★ Mizoguchi, Kanagawa

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★ Morioka, Iwate

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★ Soka, Saitama

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★ Kamata, Tokyo

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★ Shizuoka, Shizuoka

North Africa and Middle East

★ Bahrain

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★ City Centre Mall, Manama (opening in 2009)

★ Egypt

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★ City Stars, Cairo

★ Kuwait

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★ Marina World, Kuwait City

★ Lebanon

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★ Beirut

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★ Achrafieh (on the first floor of the ABC Achrafieh)

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★ Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport (East and West Departure Terminals)

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★ CityMall in Dora

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★ Martyr's Square (located in the old Beirut Opera House; is the largest Virgin Megastore in the Middle East)

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★ Tripoli

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★ Bohsass Highway

★ Qatar

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★ Villagio, Doha

★ United Arab Emirates

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★ Abu Dhabi

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★ Abu Dhabi Mall

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★ Dubai

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★ BurJuman

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★ Deira City Centre

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★ Mall of the Emirates

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★ Mercato Mall

XS stores

Locations of Virgin XS stores: Bridgend, Cheshire Oaks, Hempstead Valley, Portsmouth, Street, Swindon, Royal Quays, Castleford, Livingston, West Lothian, York Designer Outlet and Lowry Outlet Mall.