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."

Comments

Goodbye

[aero2600-5]

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

Guess they should've listened to Maddox

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=compusa_sucks

Now where will I go to get gouged??

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

I guess its back to Radio Shack

Re:That sucks

[gEvil (beta)]

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

Re:MY experience

[itsnotmi]

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.