CompUSA To Close All Stores 509
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."
Goodbye (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:good riddance (Score:1, Funny)
Guess they should've listened to Maddox (Score:5, Funny)
Now where will I go to get gouged?? (Score:5, Funny)
My suggestion to Compusa is to copy your (Score:1, Funny)
Dumb Ass Business Model, Dept Clueless
PO Box 1010000101000,
Cramit, MO 66666
Monthly trip to Argentina (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:That sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Someone from Georgia thinks that they're on the west coast. Why doesn't that surprise me? : p
Re:Meh. (Score:3, Funny)
to make sure employees did not steel anything
I'm confused. Is steeling related in any way to ironing?
Re:MY experience (Score:3, Funny)
Re: ... now with deceitful titles! (Score:1, Funny)
After a rash of consecutive such experiences, I ran out of companies to boycott and gave up in exhaustion.