CIRCUIT CITY: R.I.P.
"The troubled 60-year-old electronics chain tried its best to survive bankruptcy, but to no avail; now, it will liquidate its merchandise and close all 567 remaining stores."...
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Gil Ray wrote: Weren't they the company that fired all of the...premium floor staff and replace them with minimum wage workers? Guess that didn't work out too well. I think I read that 30,000 are...
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Yes, aside from people unfortunately losing their (poorly trained) jobs, who cares? Not me.
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Gil Ray wrote: Weren't they the company that fired all of the...premium floor staff and replace them with minimum wage workers? Guess that didn't work out too well. We can only hope that other large...
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Their website was down most of the day yesterday. It's back up with their announcement of the storewide closing; http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html
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Popped into the nearest CC this morning figuring they'd be having some massive 40 to 50% off sales, but uh uh. 10% off everything in the store. Since everything in the store is so overpriced that 10%...
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Their store in Merritt Island FL was advertising 30% off. I couldn't even get into the parking lot, it was so jammed. I'll probably end up eating a $20 gift card I still have, but I'm not going to...
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I would bet anything that the CEO and Board of Directors have been digging into the reserves , and they will not be bothered a bit when Circuit City close down. I remeber when Eatons went under ,...
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I'll check out the Melbourne, Fl store tomorrow, but I doubt I'll se any good prices. CC was always overpriced, imo.
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Domenick Fraumeni wrote: I'll check out the Melbourne, Fl store tomorrow, but I doubt I'll se any good prices. CC was always overpriced, imo. Went out for lunch today and saw a couple of guy on a...
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About the only things I ever bought from them were The Black Scorpion on DVD, The Doctor Who: Lost in Time Collection for only $30 and the Diablo II PC game. Probably the least useful store of this...
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Folks, do NOT get suckered by Circuit City's final sale. They're using a second-party liquidator to get rid of their stuff. They raise their price a month before the store closes and then the last two...
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I boughted my first VCR there, and first color TV. The store is directly across the street from former Monogram, on Sunset Blvd near Fountain Ave. ----------- (This LA Times story added much later in...
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The time to get a deal is JUST prior to the liquidators taking over. They have Standard Operating Procedures to maximize liquidation revenues. Frankly, they are counting on fools who don't know the...
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rvoyttbots wrote: Never did like CC. Ditto. Very, very rarely shopped there unless absolutely necessary. And their support of Divx was always a sore spot with me.
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Though I'm sorry for those who will lose their jobs, I'm another who won't be sorry to see this pathetic excuse for a electronics chain bite the dust.
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One thing I will miss is that they always had the best sale price on DVD-r blanks, usually 7 or 8 bucks for a 30 pack of a name brand, every week. Best Buy often has sales like this, but are usually...
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Very interesting Time.com piece on the Circuit City liquidators http://www.time.com/time/...3327,00.html?iid=tsmodule
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lsasser wrote: Still only 30% off? Feh! I noticed Circuit City has started to run "going out of business" ads on TV. playing up the 30% off.
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