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Title: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Bocsius on November 03, 2008, 11:54:43 AM: Circuit City is shuttering 155 stores, list here: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/CC/455440478x0x245809/2BFAC9D9-6CEF-4027-9E51-1C635F42F7A7/110308%20Store%20Closing%20List.pdf

Store closing sales start Wednesday.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2008, 11:56:40 AM: Who goes to Circuit City?

When will 2 great 2 depressing take over Radioshack? Or is Radioshack invincible even in the midst of all this turmoil? Not that it's surprising. Radioshack has been in business for how long and nobody shops there?
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Bocsius on November 03, 2008, 11:58:40 AM: Quote from: Himuro on November 03, 2008, 11:56:40 AM
Who goes to Circuit City?

Apparently, no one. That being the problem.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on November 03, 2008, 11:59:53 AM: Quote from: Himuro on November 03, 2008, 11:56:40 AM
Who goes to Circuit City?

When will 2 great 2 depressing take over Radioshack? Or is Radioshack invincible even in the midst of all this turmoil? Not that it's surprising. Radioshack has been in business for how long and nobody shops there?

RadioShack will always exist, because they're popular in small towns where big box retailers don't exist.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2008, 12:00:54 PM: Quote from: MyNameIsMethodis on November 03, 2008, 11:59:53 AM
Quote from: Himuro on November 03, 2008, 11:56:40 AM
Who goes to Circuit City?

When will 2 great 2 depressing take over Radioshack? Or is Radioshack invincible even in the midst of all this turmoil? Not that it's surprising. Radioshack has been in business for how long and nobody shops there?

RadioShack will always exist, because they're popular in small towns where big box retailers don't exist.

So that's how they survive? I was curious because EVERY TIME I go to a radioshack I'm the ONLY person in there. ALWAYS. And if I'm not, there's only one more person. Place is a damn ghost town.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 03, 2008, 12:02:25 PM: FUCK Circuit City, they never have ANYTHING to buy
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: DJ_Tet on November 03, 2008, 12:03:45 PM: I think Radio Shack survives because they carry things no one else carries. Not sure why anyone buys any of their toys or stereos but I don't know anywhere else I can walk in and get some transistors and capacitors.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 03, 2008, 12:07:43 PM: yeah, i drop by radio shack twice a month for overpriced adapters, cables, and fuses.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Rman on November 03, 2008, 12:12:29 PM: Radio shack is good for speaker cables and stuff like that. I prefer BB over CC, BB rarely stock quirkier games, however.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 03, 2008, 12:14:43 PM: how is this depressing? CC sux
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Kestastrophe on November 03, 2008, 12:18:05 PM: worst employees ever. the only requirements to work there are ineptitude and general douchebag attitude
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: tiesto on November 03, 2008, 12:20:09 PM: Damn, my store (Lake Grove) is shutting down. CC's a bit more convenient for me to get to from BB, and I like how they give you gift cards/have discounts on SE portable games. Oh well.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Kestastrophe on November 03, 2008, 12:22:12 PM: They have really good sales on new games lots of times, but I always end up admatching somewhere else so I don't have to deal with any of the mouth breathers employed there.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: cool breeze on November 03, 2008, 12:29:06 PM: I remember getting a couple XBL point cards for free when I bought Guitar Hero 2 for 360 from them.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2008, 12:33:46 PM: leper himuro for bad mouthing radioshack.

if you can't find an odd end electrical item at best buy of fry's, you can almost certainly find it at radioshack.

Needle for my turntable? Check
Y cable tubing that i ended up using on a friend's car for the windshield washer pump tubing? Check

Radioshack rocks
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2008, 12:37:35 PM: I didn't badmouth it. I'm just sayin', I've never seen anyone inside a Radioshack every time I go and I've always been curious as to how they stay in the biz.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Eric P on November 03, 2008, 12:37:52 PM: radio shacks supplies of cables and adapters has been a life saver repeatedly.

but CC? ugh. i would only go there if something was on sale or i zomg needed it right then and there.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 03, 2008, 12:40:57 PM: Quote from: Himuro on November 03, 2008, 12:37:35 PM
I didn't badmouth it. I'm just sayin', I've never seen anyone inside a Radioshack every time I go and I've always been curious as to how they stay in the biz.

Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how)

(http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/RadioShack-Revenues_0.jpg)
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2008, 12:45:14 PM: "There must be some sort of business model that enables this company to make money, but I'll be damned if I know what it is"

is a classic quote
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2008, 12:50:57 PM: Quote from: Eric P on November 03, 2008, 12:37:52 PM
radio shacks supplies of cables and adapters has been a life saver repeatedly.

but CC? ugh. i would only go there if something was on sale or i zomg needed it right then and there.

CC used to have great sales on new games and blu rays. 10 dollar gift card with it or other free shit or like 10 bucks off. they're awesome on new shit.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 03, 2008, 12:51:23 PM: Circuit City has been giving away $10-$15 giftcards with a ton of new releases lately, so they've been getting a lot of my business.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: patrickula on November 03, 2008, 01:02:03 PM: I don't see what's so bad about CC. They seem pretty much the same as BB to me, plus deals on new games. I used to love their 10 dollar cd sales. I'll go to whichever is convenient.

BTW: http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=25412.msg662200#msg662200

:bow me :bow2
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 03, 2008, 01:22:56 PM: The CC never kept shit in stock, had shitty methods of displaying their shit, and their employees were argh. I have a Circuit City card, so my dealings with them are sadly extensive.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Kestastrophe on November 03, 2008, 01:31:43 PM: FYI: CC is giving away $20 in Live points with Gears 2 purchase this week
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on November 03, 2008, 01:31:49 PM: yeah I dunno how you guys could stand to go into a CC, the ones here are like a tornado went through a Best Buy and left the stock all over the floor
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 03, 2008, 01:32:07 PM: My local CC was always crap. Anything in the ads was pretty much guaranteed NOT to be in stock and ran on rainchecks. There was a stereo system I wanted but a shocker, was not in stock and got a raincheck. After a month of not getting a call back, I just got a system at Best Buy.

Never went there again. Fuck them.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: MrAngryFace on November 03, 2008, 01:34:00 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 03, 2008, 01:31:49 PM
yeah I dunno how you guys could stand to go into a CC, the ones here are like a tornado went through a Best Buy and left the stock all over the floor

:lol that's the nice way of putting it

Honestly best buy has its bad days too. Some days I get there and they still have their new releases in boxes in the row the stock is supposed to go and I have to search the box myself for the release I want. Its so ghetto
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 03, 2008, 03:01:55 PM: Quote from: Bocsius on November 03, 2008, 11:54:43 AM
Circuit City is shuttering 155 stores, list here: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/CC/455440478x0x245809/2BFAC9D9-6CEF-4027-9E51-1C635F42F7A7/110308%20Store%20Closing%20List.pdf

Store closing sales start Wednesday.

The CC that opened near me earlier THIS YEAR is already being closed. :lol
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Brehvolution on November 03, 2008, 03:06:11 PM: lol at this location:

125 DISC DRIVE SPARKS NV 89436
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: patrickula on November 03, 2008, 03:10:34 PM: Will they have crazy sales when these things close, like TRUs did?

edit: Haha OP says sales start Wednesday. I fail to read.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2008, 03:10:58 PM: So they're gonna have massive sales? Awesome
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: abrader on November 03, 2008, 03:11:59 PM: I do not see how they are not closing the Central Orlando store.

Its an unorganized dusty shithole with Special K addicted teen-brats as employees who do nothing but drool on themselves.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: tiesto on November 03, 2008, 03:24:56 PM: Quote from: abrader on November 03, 2008, 03:11:59 PM
I do not see how they are not closing the Central Orlando store.

Its an unorganized dusty shithole with Special K addicted teen-brats as employees who do nothing but drool on themselves.

Ketamine addicts? Do they play minimal over the loudspeakers at that particular Circuit City?
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: modkennylaine on November 03, 2008, 04:10:13 PM: I bought Suikoden 2 for 20 bucks back in the day at CC. I've had a rose-tinted view of them ever since.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 03, 2008, 04:44:08 PM: The only CC closing in Washington state is the Outlet Store in Federal Way.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: tiesto on November 03, 2008, 11:12:18 PM: Quote from: modkennylaine on November 03, 2008, 04:10:13 PM
I bought Suikoden 2 for 20 bucks back in the day at CC. I've had a rose-tinted view of them ever since.

I bought La Pucelle Tactics for $2 from there... never played it though.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Positive Touch on November 03, 2008, 11:24:25 PM: some cc's would slowly mark down their pc games by HUGE amounts without changing the price tags. i could always go in and find awesome deals - collector's edition of half-life 2 for $6, halo for $3, painkiller gold for $8, along with many many others good deals.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
plus they didn't always put their handheld games in protective cases
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r.i.p. c.c.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2008, 11:28:04 PM: when GTA:VC came out, I couldn't find it anywhere. But CC had tons of copies.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 04, 2008, 01:17:11 AM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on November 03, 2008, 12:40:57 PM
Quote from: Himuro on November 03, 2008, 12:37:35 PM
I didn't badmouth it. I'm just sayin', I've never seen anyone inside a Radioshack every time I go and I've always been curious as to how they stay in the biz.

Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/even_ceo_cant_figure_out_how)

(http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/RadioShack-Revenues_0.jpg)
Hey, he could trade notes with the CEO of GM! :D
(http://www.freep.com/uploads/images/2008/11/1103wagoner.jpg)
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: AdmiralViscen on November 04, 2008, 10:45:02 AM: Quote from: Kestastrophe on November 03, 2008, 01:31:43 PM
FYI: CC is giving away $20 in Live points with Gears 2 purchase this week

HMMMMMM
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: Beardo on November 04, 2008, 11:02:07 AM: Good, GM cars a pile of shit. Get your act together.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 04, 2008, 11:03:03 AM: Quote from: Beardo on November 04, 2008, 11:02:07 AM
Good, GM cars a pile of shit. Get your act together.
What about the new Camaro? :'(
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: AdmiralViscen on November 04, 2008, 11:29:16 AM: What GM car introduced since 2005 is a pile of shit?

edit: OK, the Buick Lucerne.
Title: Re: 2 Great 2 Depressing: Circuit City
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 04, 2008, 11:36:02 AM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on November 04, 2008, 11:29:16 AM
What GM car introduced since 2005 is a pile of shit?

edit: OK, the Buick Lucerne.
Don't forget the Chevy Aveo being a huge turd... but that's it.