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CompUSA To Close All Stores
An anonymous reader writes "Mexican telephone and retail magnate Carlos Slim, in a rare defeat, will exit the US consumer electronics market, shutting the last 100 CompUSA Inc. stores after sinking about $2 billion into the business. Gordon Brothers Group, a Boston-based retail store liquidator, will oversee a piecemeal sale of the Dallas-based business, the company said in a statement. Financial terms were not disclosed. Stores will remain open through year-end under the supervision of Gordon Brothers, which will also negotiate the sale of real estate and other assets."
The only thing impressive CompUSA ever did was make the idiots at Best Buy look like geniuses.
Their prices were ridiculous, the staff under-qualified. If you wanted to know what 1994 felt like, all you had to do was wander into one of their stores.
Aero
Please stop hurting America -- Jon Stewart
I,m already circling overhead,patiently waiting to collect my share of the carrion.
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I guess its back to Radio Shack
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Yeah, I used to think that Tower Records had a great selection of alternative music, dozens of listening stations so I could sample the music (in the days before iTunes and Amazon made that easy online), and a not-too-corporate-and-homogeneous atmosphere.
But then I went to Argentina for a weekend and the Tower Records there was a total mess. I'd never heard of half the bands in their inventory and the clerks couldn't even speak English! I was so disappointed that I never went to another Tower back in the USA.
Seriously, the Internet killed record stores, whether through piracy, ease of use, or changes in listening habits. Music retail seems to consist only of bland, mass-market selections in book stores and electronic stores nowadays. Tower was my favorite of the non-independent stores, but I'm not surprised that the market changes killed them.
Fry's actually has made it to the west coast, albeit in a somewhat limited capacity. There's one in Duluth,Georgia
Someone from Georgia thinks that they're on the west coast. Why doesn't that surprise me? : p
This guy's the limit!
to make sure employees did not steel anything
I'm confused. Is steeling related in any way to ironing?
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
I had a completely different experience. My wife had her PC shipped over from Italy, and the processor became dislodged. I was out of town, so she took it in to CompUSA, and the guy (I think his name was Andy) remounted it without charging a dime. He calls occasionally just to check on the PC, stops by (usually when i'm at work...) oshit.
After a rash of consecutive such experiences, I ran out of companies to boycott and gave up in exhaustion. s/emails/rhetoric/ s/companies/parties/