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Circuit City is going out of business (all stores)
Circuit City is going out of business
The only good thing I can say about circuit city was that they actually put their stuff on clearance, but there labor record sucks (they fired all their talented sales people a few years ago and there store and product layout sucked). However this may cause me to get that big screen TV a bit earlier at liquidation prices....
The only good thing I can say about circuit city was that they actually put their stuff on clearance, but there labor record sucks (they fired all their talented sales people a few years ago and there store and product layout sucked). However this may cause me to get that big screen TV a bit earlier at liquidation prices....
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They start out by having a long period of time where all of the stuff is at a very small discounts. Very little product moves. The only things they will sell are the kinds of things that usually never go on sale, like Apple products, Wiis, brand new video games, etc.
The next step they put out slightly bigger than usual discounts, but nothing to write home about. Now all the good merchandise starts to clean out. The thing is, the prices are no better than what you can get shopping around online. All the normal people, though, they come and buy whatever they can. I hope that the bad economy changes this, and the good merchandise makes it to the next round of discounts.
In the final step, the store has crazy awesome discounts, but no merchandise. The Media Play near us didn't even have any worthwhile anime DVDs left by the time the discount got to 40% or 50%. I think I got a really bad Atari remix DS game for $5. The worst part is that the Media Plays sold all of their books in one lump to somebody else. So just when the sale was getting good, you weren't allowed to buy books anymore.
One thing to look out for when a store liquidates is that they sell all the fixture. If you are looking for DVD racks, shelves, or end-caps, you are going to get some awesomeness.
Also, with something like TVs, it is very difficult to judge what is better. Not only is it subjective, but the few objective specifications you have to go on are completely misleading. Stats like contrast ratio are effectively made up. Even if you go to look at a bunch of screens in-person, in the store they configure them with different settings than you will use in your home. Those different color settings make everything look super bright and super vivid. It's really impressive in a store, but anyone smart realizes the colors are completely wrong. Before you buy a TV, make sure you take the remote and change the settings to see what it will actually look like in your house. The thing is, the Kuro is insanely better than any other screen I've ever seen. Using real measurements, and not bs measurements, it has 3 to 4 times better contrast than any other TV ever. It's not an insignificant difference.
See for yourself.
You know, that's actually a pretty good idea.
It combines the advantages of a brick and mortar store - Primarily the try before you buy and get-it-right-now aspects - with the lower overheads and efficiency of online shopping, allowing you to price your products lower than other B&M retailers, and due to deals with distributors and/or manufacturers, and sometimes cheaper than online retailers, due to the lack of shipping costs.
I really wish Radioshack had stuck around. They went too mainstream just trying to sell phones and shit when they really should have stuck more with their roots and embraced the whole "maker" movement and sold lots of Raspberry Pi's and Arduinos.
It's a shame they have bad locations, though. It's a half-hour drive for me to get to the closest location. If they opened their stores closer to residential areas instead of alongside a long stretch of road, they'd be raking in mad cash.