Circuit City Is Toast

Well. Circuit City is definately on its way out. My guess is that they are just trying to survive through the Christmas season. They are barely going to do that. If you have to close down 155 stores before Christmas, you know its going to be really bad. I also would guess that this is just the beginning of this type of closing. Its kind of like how all of a sudden Baker's Square went bankrupt and then a bit later we saw stores like Bennigann's go as well.

Aside from the simpathy that I feel for the employees, I don't think that Circuit City will be missed much. In much the same way that I don't miss CompUSA. Their stores sucked. Especially once they ditched all their knowledgable employees for high school and college kids. I've noticed a significant decline in how the stores are cared for over the last 2 years or so. It just wasn't clean anymore. Their selection of technology generally sucked horribly, which is where CompUSA went really really wrong as well. When Costco has a better selection of TV's that Circuit City you know that they are in trouble. 

The other thing that really bothered me about Circuit City was that there was litterally no one at the registers most of the time. Why would I want to shop at a place that makes me wait to check out... even when there are no friggin' lines? I hate... revile Best Buy, but at least they have people staffing their counters.

With places like Newegg.com, Amazon, and Costco, Circuit City won't be missed. Circuit City, just like CompUSA is a victim of their horrible management and planning. Something I've seen way too much of lately. Why do so much of corporate management seem to read Dilbert and think that its advice for their management plans?

Pointy-haired manager at Circuit City: "People aren't shopping here. Let's get rid of all the people that know about electronics and make people wait even though there are no lines. Oh and don't forget to stop keeping the stores look nice and mark up all the horrible products really high. Anyone that buys from us deserves to be ripped off!"

I imagine the pointy-hairs are patting themselves on their backs about closing all of these stores before Christmas too. Yeesh.