Circuit City Shutting Down Remaining 567 Stores

I would rather shop at walmart then go to CC to buy anything. Bought time that piece of shit business closed.

The main thing I liked about Circuit City was , they were pretty much the first Box Chain to allow customers to negotiate down the price on floor models or demo's. I picked up a pair of really nice Polk towers at about 80% the listed price... Adios CC, hello Newegg

Here comes the first "blood in the water" sale I've been waiting for with the economy crapping itself.

Just went and checked out a CC. They're offering 10% off pretty much everything. A few things (music CDs) 20%, TV furniture 30%.

These are laughable numbers. I can find better discounts online. For a going out of business sale, these aren't exactly enticing numbers.

I'll go back in a week and better see 50%...

Any word on any netbook deals?

I worked at CC for a few months about a year or so ago. I was hard up for cash, so putting self respect aside, I picked up a job at the Firedog desk.

I wasn't expecting much in the way of technical know-how from my co-workers, but I have to say even I was shocked. The people that they had running the Firedog desk were not only technically "stupid," but they were completely disinterested in helping the customer. Out of laziness my manager drilled a hole into the side of a case to mount a hard drive. I begged him to tell the customer to buy a 5.25 to a 3.5 adapter and mount in the 5.25 bay, but he would not. I even offered to go buy one myself on my break and bring it in.

At any rate, I quit after 3 months. 2 days later I was offered a manager's position. I went in to talk about it - and the store director that I had worked under for 3 months didn't even recognize me. He gave me a spiel about how he would treat me "right." He didn't even know who I was!

Sorry this is so long, I'll wrap up.
1. Circuit City told me I would make at minimum $10 an hour, with my experience I was guaranteed $12-13. They paid me $9.

2. It took them almost two months to give me my first paycheck.

3. I'm still on the books as an employee. I can still login to any machine in the store. (It's been over a year.)

4. I was a tech, but they kept pulling me over to sell TV's and Telephones, or run the registers.

5. We never ran the store with more than 40% of the employees we should have had.

6. Every Sunday at 6:00 AM we had mandatory meetings. (I refused to go.)

I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. I genuinely feel bad for the 30,000 folks that lost their jobs - but it's been a long time coming. You can't run a company the way they did and expect to come out ahead.

Oh by the way - I was the only one on the tech desk that had any formal training or had ever worked at any computer related job before.

We were also the Flagship store. Corporate was across the street.

I'll miss their occasional $5 video game sales.

Let's have a look at my local chain stores that sell tech / entertainment stuff:

Circuit City: liquidating all stores now.
Best Buy: still open, but a sleazy overpriced understaffed shell of its former self.
CompUSA: liquidated the local store in spring 2007, liquidated the rest in spring 2008.
Tweeter: just finished liquidating all stores weeks ago.
MicroCenter: one location in Cambridge; good luck fighting with the Trader Joe's crowd and the MIT / Boston University students.
Fry's: doesn't care about east coast people.

Well, that's fun. That pretty much leaves online retail for computer hardware, home audio, and car audio.

They opened a Circuit City in my town directly across the street from the largest electronics/furniture/appliance store in a 200 mile radius. It was the most stupid thing I have ever seen. They open this store with 2-3 cash registers, less then half the floor space/selection, and every time I went in there, there were like 3-4 people people.

Meanwhile the store across the street(Nebraska Furniture Mart), the store thats been around for decades, you've got at least 10-15 registers and an army of personnel(bout 4 warehouses on site). On top of that, people drive miles and miles just to shop here it's so popular.

And some moron at CC thought it would be a good idea to build a freestanding/costly building in there front lawn! I think they lasted about 2 years, maybe more. Maybe 3-4 cars in the parking lot at any given time.

This sucks. In my area selling electronics and computers 3 years ago there were:

Best Buy
CompUSA
Tweeter
Circuit City
Apple Store

After CC goes, there will now be:

Best Buy
Apple Store

I'm not counting Walmart and Target because they usually only carry the lower-end models

I'll never forget their commercials of that big giant plug coming down into the ground, plugging in and becoming that giant red entrance we are so familiar with.

I can't say i'm surprised by this. I've held a grudge against ciruit city after they drilled a hole clean through my car door when installing a set of speakers (rather than using the adaptor-brackets that CAME WITH THE SPEAKERS).

Anybody with a brain knows that Circuit City was a shithole.

The worst part about these liquidation sales is that they are never all that great. You go in hoping for some 50% -75% off deals but it is always a crappy 10-15%...

Hmm, think I might stop by the local CC and see if they have any deals.