Circuit City Shuts 155 Stores - The End is Near

[Adam]

I got laid off while I was on my honeymoon.

One less word and that would have been a much more positive sentence.

 

[Halon451]

Losing your job just before X-mas sucks, but I think I might have that beat. I got laid off while I was on my honeymoon. Sure put a damper on me bringing back gifts for everyone in my office.

"Geez, I just paid for a wedding and a honeymoon, and now I don't have a job?!?!"

Yikes... sorry to hear about that.

 

[darien87]

One less word and that would have been a much more positive sentence.

LOL

What word might that be?

 

[darien87]

Yikes... sorry to hear about that.

This was YEEEAAAARRRSSSS ago. No biggie.

 

[hillbill]

I ran in a CC on Saturday evening and told my wife afterward "That store will be closed by February." I was in there at like 7:30 - 8:00 Saturday and I think there were two other customers in there besides me (and they were together).

But I see, that store isn't one of the ones listed.

 

[MUDSHARK]

I'm not at all surprised. Bad business model, bad customer service,and bad inventory. The only time I went in there in the last year was to change to Verizon.

 

[chriscmore]

While empathizing with their employees, I not upset to see the organization failing. I worked for them for two years and while they had a newly minted EE working for them, who worked part time and out-sold the full timers, they were furious when I recommended that customers skip the extended warranty on long-life items such as speakers and equalizers, and advised them on sound quality instead of store margin.

At CEDIA this year, I had dinner with two dear friends who were also fired from CC for similarly honest advice, and we enjoy the irony that two of us have careers in audio.

So to Cindy whatever-your-last-name-was, who set the standard for inept management via the Columbia, MO store, one big F.U....

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Phil Taylor]

My local store is on the list - just a few blocks away. Off to see what they have for their "fired-dog" sale. It'll be my first time in there in over a year...

 

[Cpt.America]

The last time I set foot in a CC the service people were complete idiots and I left, never to return. The end.

I had the exact same experience. I walked around the store for 20 minutes with $2000 burning a hole in my pocket and wasn't approached even once. I was there wanting to learn a bit about the latest flat panel TVs that were available, and possibly make a purchase. 20 minutes was all i could take... so i left. Went over to best buy, had to fight off 4 or 5 different helpful sales people, found my phillips, and walked out with a new TV.

Good riddance

 

[Phil Taylor]

I for one are glad that they are closing!! I used to worked there and i've heard that they had a lot of top notch salesman and they let them go and hired a bunch or snot-nosed 17-19 yr old kids that don't know jack $hit!!

A report on my visit yesterday to my local closing store --

Here's the bow on the package of sh!t that defines Circus City -- there was a 61' Samsung LED DLP TV on display that clearly had the blue LED burned out - the pic was all ugly green and red. I asked a salesclown how they expected to sell that TV and he said "Oh the ones in the box are OK - that one's just messed up". That's how stupid their salesbots are.... you wouldn't see a rusty, dented Cadillac on the showroom floor at the local dealership would ya? Buh-bye FiredDogs.

Please excuse the rant... I just found the whole experience to be professionally offensive...

Now on the other hand - I stopped by an Ultimate Electronics yesterday too - to do a little research - and their displays were very impressive. The biggest selection of HDTVs I've seen in one place outside of a trade show. Nice layouts with areas for viewing different packages and three listening rooms with a multitude of receiver/speaker selections. I left impressed for the most part. There were some signal issues with their video distribution and they had a Kuro playing Blu-ray which was the best looking set in the store (of course) but then they had it paired with a Bose Acoustimass system for audio...