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Circuit City: Everything Must Go!
Emanon
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Circuit City to liquidate remaining US stores. Soon it'll be all Wal-Mart. What's next? Discuss!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95OBUM00&show_article=1&catnum=0
If there is a deal on nice new large screen LCD or plasma I will be all over it!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95OBUM00&show_article=1&catnum=0
If there is a deal on nice new large screen LCD or plasma I will be all over it!
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They're the "exclusive" dealer for a certain type of Lexmark ink that we use at work, so we're going to have to start buying it through Lexmark's site now which blows.
"Want that $1000 TV, but can't use that $100 gift card? Come to us!"
Their stocks have tanked since 2007, and they're no longer listed because it went too low. This isn't a trick. This is the culmination of years of bad decisions and failed marketing strategies.
Which is good, because I love Fry's Electronics way more then Best Buy.
And this says everything needed about Radio Shack.
Yeah, funny story. I once applied to work at Circuit City as a computer sales rep, right out of college. I'd already spent three years in college alternately working as a computer tech and as computer lab support so I had some experience under my belt. Keep in mind that they had a "Now Hiring!" sign on their counter and I'd asked before submitting my application what positions they were hiring for and computer sales rep was one of the positions available.
So everything on my app pointed solidly towards computers. I got the interview, and as soon as the interview started they started asking me about my interest in music. Okay, whatever, maybe this was icebreaker chat. But it continued, and all of their loss prevention questions were music-oriented like "what would you do if you if you saw a coworker slide a CD under his jacket?" Then the interviewer walked out and was replaced by somebody else, who said, "So you want to be in our music department, huh?" "No, I'm applying to be a computer sales rep." "Oh, that's weird." He looks down, shuffles his papers, and said, "Sorry, I guess my notes are wrong. That's okay, none of my questions are department specific," and he continued to ask me basically the same loss prevention question phrased 20 different ways: what would you do if you saw an employee stealing?
Then that interviewer walked out and was replaced by another, who led with "So you want to be in our music department?" This happened again, with another interviewer, yet a different person, again asking me essentially identical questions, none of which had a damn thing to do with experience or work ethic or anything but "what would you do if you saw somebody stealing?" By the fourth interviewer I said, "Look, I really just want to work in the computer department. I don't want to sell CDs," and he looked me straight in the eye and said, "We don't think your application is a good match for our computer department." I was flabbergasted and just stayed in my seat while the interview continued, but half-way through that I got really tired of being asked 12 or 15 more times what I would do if I caught somebody stealing, so I just said, "You know what, there's been a big misunderstanding, I'm really looking for computer field experience. Thanks for your time," and walked out.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
My wife and I bought a TV from Circuit City in November. While we're there a couple salesmen come up to us, ask us the usual stuff.. eventually my wife gets a little annoyed and asks them if they want help finding a job as they'll soon be out of one. In her defense, she was serious and didn't realize at the time how mean and spiteful it was.
I can't really mock her for it anymore, however, since he really could use some help finding one.
I'm not sure if I should be D:D:D: or :winky::winky::winky:.
Still, it's no surprise. I picked the company figuring that they would make for some interesting reading, and then the economic crisis hit in September and then they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November. I worked for CC for a little while a year ago.
Their management is incompetent as all hell. I remember one Saturday night I was the only one working in the Tech section, and suddenly the store manager comes to me and tell me we have to re-organize all the computer displays. Keep in mind I'm not a supervisor and he's nowhere to be found, and also keep in mind I am given no instructions or have any idea what to do with the current display models. Few things get done by the end of the night, and the next morning, I get a call asking me to come in and help with some "big changes" to my section. Forget that they've been through four company presidents since 2000, and one of their biggest stockholders continues to demand that everyone on the board be fired. And to top it all off, before the economic crisis hit, their stock prices had been dragging well under $10 since the middle of 2007. I said it a year ago and I'll say it again: the company is run like a circus.
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Fry's is a giant warehouse with employees trying their best to look like they are busy.
Well no because if they teach you to work the register you might steal money.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
At Borders you can walk in the store, go to a kiosk, type in the name of the stuff you want. After 20 seconds of work you know if Borders carries it or not, and whether or not the store haves a copy.
At Circuit City you have to ask a employee, who then have to pull out a tome with all CDs/DVDs inventory listed, and spend 30 minutes flipping through the pages. Of course they only print this stupid list out once every month or so (if anyone isnt lazy enough not to do it), so chances are all your searching is in vain because they ran out of copies. A good 15 or so minutes wasted.
The only bad thing that'll come from Circuit City closing is now we have these huge ass buildings that noone is going to be able to afford to rent, which will become magnets to wannabe gangsters and all around dumbasses.
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Oh, it's gotten worse since then. Now if you sign up to work in computers, you're automatically trained to sell cameras as well. I think they incorporated it all into a "Technology Department," or something. But that's not all. Now you're expected to train in every section of the store, so that you can go over to televisions and sell them just like you would a computer. The worst part was that they expected me to go over and sell car stereo systems, which I know nothing about. Sure, they trained me...with that stupid e-learning bullshit.
You can imagine how terrible an idea this is. I had just gotten accustomed to selling computers when they announced I needed to also have the knowledge to sell everything else in the store. Now imagine me going into car stereos and confusing the fuck out of somebody, while someone from car stereos goes over the computers and confuses the fuck out of somebody.
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And?
CompUSA- deservedly shut down
Sharper Image- Not soon enough
Linens N'Things- At least I saved money on their 500 thread-count bedding during their liquidation.
It's a good thing because the last thing I want is a bunch of people pestering me.
How would that even work?
I know. That's half the reason I go there.
I could see competitors offering some percentage discount (up to a maximum) for giftcards. So if you turn in a $100 giftcard, maybe they give you a $25 or $50 discount...just as a way to try and draw in customers.
Of course, this would be dependent on knowing how much value was on the giftcard, since those systems will be going bye bye (and I'm assuming, since I don't have a CC around, that they don't do face-value cards...nobody does anymore). So while it might work in theory, in reality it would be impossible.
And their prices on games are a fucking sick joke. Like shit from the Gamecube is going for like $30.
Circuit City is going out of business because everything there was overpriced.
While I usually don't look for help at these stores, I do know that customers would sometimes come up to me and mention how annoyed they were that most of the employees were too busy hanging out over near the car audio speakers when they needed help.
Granted, these are old people who know nothing of routers or computers.
EDIT: oh shit, I just realized I have a $20 gift card I need to spend.
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The news kinda sucks because it's the only electronics store around here, but maybe Best Buy will open a store here or something.
Anyways, I'd like to see when the deals kick in. I'll head over to one and pillage their Blu-Rays and Xbox/360 games.
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I know! I know the idea is to make money, but I think they failed to realize that sometimes you have to just make enough to stay in business if you want to not go bankrupt.
And then they tell you "oh, anybody can ring you up in any department" but good luck finding somebody available to do so.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
The weird thing is that I almost never get pestered by blueshirts when I go to Best Buy, even if they're standing around and I pass right by one. It's like the complete opposite of Circuit City, which stresses that we greet every customer to give the optimal customer experience.
Most pathetic of all, at one point, I guess to combat slow sales, they actually sent out a memo telling us that we had to greet customers differently. It wasn't just enough to ask them how their day was and if they were finding things alright. Now we had to basically outlay the entire store for them and tell them where to find stuff and if they were looking at something, begin explaining it to them even if they denied your earlier approach and also force a weekly flier into their hands. Needless to say, nobody ever did this, as you could imagine how many sales we would lose.
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