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5Words: Black Friday Madness Starts Now

Monday, November 16, 2009

Oh no, Black Friday’s coming! President Obama: “I’ve never Tweeted.” Facebook for WebOS: bare-bones. Brightcove’s video on a budget. Windows Mobile is sinking fast. Bill Gates admires Steve Jobs. AT&T’s Windows 7 Starter netbook. Is Psystar’s defeat good news? AMD powers world’s fastest supercomputer. Buy notebook, get netbook free. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

CompUSA Makes a Comeback

Friday, April 10, 2009

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After Circuit City bit the dust earlier this year, you probably thought that Best Buy would pretty much be on its own in the electronics super-retailer category. Think again — an old name is making a comeback. CompUSA has now opened 30 locations — mostly in Florida — with a new outlook on retail. Company execs [...]

Apple Store Traffic Flat, But Sales Are Down

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Apple has taken quite a bit of pride in its successful retail operation, and rightly so. It has grown at a rate not seen by other electronics outlets as of late, and sales have been consistently higher every quarter. Not so for the holidays. Traffic was essentially flat in the fourth quarter, down 1.8 percent. The [...]

A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old TV Ads

Monday, November 10, 2008

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Today’s news that Circuit City, American’s second-largest electronics retailer, has filed for bankruptcy left me sad. And, oddly enough, nostalgic. The City isn’t going out of business, but as I reflected on its woes I thought about all the electronics chains I’ve shopped at over the years–the vast majority of which are no longer with [...]

Is Circuit City’s Bankruptcy the Beginning of the End?

Monday, November 10, 2008

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A week ago, the bad news about Circuit City was that it was closing 115 of its locations. New week, new bad news: The company has filed for Chapter 11 voluntary bankruptcy, a move that will will let it continue business without having to pay all its creditors all the money it owes them. Bankruptcies aren’t [...]