"Friendly advice" - Try gum-popping and monotone.
"We'll beat any price from any other store, any membership club, anybody." - We beat ANYONE, except for retailers who are online or farther than 10 miles away.
"We all have one goal: pleasing you" - We all have one goal: spiffs.
"Service is state of the art" - No, but the cigarette sculpture people are help building in the alley out back is pretty amazing.
More reasons why Circuit City is dead.
]]>They just opened a brand new CC in Brea, CA this year...I think. They are remodeling the shopping center behind Brea Mall, (including a Target with underground parking) and the old CC was replaced with a new one.
]]>Sure enough, we get to the store about a half-hour later and it's not at the counter. They can't find it. After the salespeople got done "looking for it" (aka standing around talking), I got my refund over an hour later along with my 24-dollar gift card. Yay! The manager didn't even apologize to me that they didn't have it even though they were supposed to (and they checked their computers at the store and they said that they had it in stock). Awesome, CC. Thanks for the experience.
]]>I bought a number of items--large and small--from CC around 10-15 years ago, and never had a problem. Once I moved, the store in my new location hasn't seemed to compare nearly as favorably, from the service or selection side.
My belief is there are always good people even in a company that loses its way, and for them, these kinds of things are very sad, especially in a sinking economy. To those folks, good luck and Godspeed.
]]>I'm sad about it too. The CC here is better than the Best Barf. I got my car stereo there and they did such a great job installing it that when someone broke into my car recently, they were unable to get it out. HA! :)
]]>@HogwartsAlum:
THat was supposed to be GO TNG, not G TNG. :P
And m4ximusprim3,I myself am only 43. :)
]]>@Kuonji:
G TNG!!!
That was my favorite show when it was on.
I was in a CC a few years ago when they had an exclusive Care Bears DVD that my 4 y.o. wanted. Now she's ashamed to admit she ever liked that Care Bears and I'm ashamed to admit I ever went into a Circuit City.
Hell, at least Best Buy had a Rolling Stones exclusive DVD.
]]>As for the suits, they weren't actually suits, just blazers you had to wear with the dress shirt and tie. They sucked, but at the time they were expected. Sales people had gray blazers and managers had red blazers.
]]>luckily around here we have fry's electronics. bb is so shady that fry's looks angelic in comparison:P
]]>they had commissions i think. so they had a reason to be douchy. the game was out in the open and everyone played it fine. now upper management at electronics chains realize they can force their employees to be douchy and give them zero commission, keeping all the earnings for themselves. quite a trick.
]]>i think if you look at the year as a whole their stock has fallen closer to the fall of the general market. CC has fallen considerably more than the market as a percent.
dow for the year is at 56% of where its peak was
best buy is at 41%
circuit city is worth 2% of their peak
im not especially good at math... but those are the numbers i got.
]]>@crazyasianman:
forgot to clarify, it was the CC that had the only zunes in stock at the time. although the first one came out of the box with a damaged case, to their credit they replaced it with another one. possibly stocked only because so few people were there.
@Corporate-Shill:
how about J&R? heck even Walmart tends to have a better electronics selection than any CC's I've walked into recently. don't hate, I was just helping a buddy who was buying the only zune available in the area at the time.
Loose CC and what in hades will keep BB in check?
No opinion?
No, the internet is not an option as too many things really are best purchased in person.
No opinion on how to keep BB in check?
Yea, that is what I thought.
We need CC just to keep BB from totally farking the world.
]]>Awesome! I remember when CC salespeople wore nice suits like the ad. And I remember the kid ad too! I've looking for it a long time. CC was great back then, I live close to the Van Nuys CA, CC and it's ghetto as hell. It's the K mart of Best Buy! ;)
My first experience with CC was the brand new store on Sunset BLVD in 1985. Goodtimes! *yes, I'm old* :P
Anyone remember the Silo stores?
]]>I got my 486 MHZ AST at a Circuit City. That thing was covered in a steel case to withstand an F6 tornado, and I upgraded up to a Pentium before shelving it a few years later. I'm tearing up over here.
]]>@Kuonji: What are you, like 80?
]]>"We'll beet any oth-uh proice at any oth-uh sto-uh."
]]>@kewlfocus: AIDS.
]]>Beyond that, agree that Circuit City is a known purveyor of suckage.
]]>1994 - Won the Bedford (N.H) city soccer championship in goal with a 1-0 shutout of Concord.
1996-Pitched middle school baseball team to city championship with a 1 hitter in regional finals.
1998-Joined Bedford N.H. high school band , selected 3rd chair in trombone section.
1999- Promoted to second chair. First date. Begins driving lessons,with goal of obtaining license as senior.
2001- Graduated, 123rd in class Bedford High Class of '01.Obtains drivers license. Leveraged band relationships to obtain job as Domino's delivery driver. First traffic accident. First moving violation.
2002 -Accepted , Syracuse University. Enrolls for fall semester,withdraws November 2002. Accepts former position at Domino's. Second moving violation. First (and second) DUI. License suspended. Leaves to "pursue other opportunities"...
January 2004 - Rehab complete. Applies,accepted for employment at Circuit City in Chevy Chase ,Maryland. "Fiances" pregnancy forces second job at Wanker's TacoTown.
September 2006- Promotion to Assistant Manager , Chevy Chase ,Maryland Circuit City. Receives first raise. "Fiance" bears 3rd child.
March 2007-In the ultimate irony,dismissed (along with other sales staff across country) by Circuit City. Arrested for suspicion of 3rd DUI.
Glad I could help...
]]>My CC is terrible, selection is terrible and the prices are so much more than what I can find online that I haven't once thought I couldn't just wait a few days for it to be delivered.
]]>I'm sad to see CC go down in flames. Last time I bought something substantial there was probably 10 years ago, and I was totally satisfied with the experience. They installed a whole car audio package, and even gave me the sale price that I had missed by a couple weeks.
Thsoe were the days. sniff.
]]>I have to admit that CC did actually have a car dock for my radio in stock when Best Buy didn't, so I will give them credit there.
]]>But honestly, that probably says more about where I've lived than CC. But based on purely anecdotal evidence, I'm not surprised they're faring so poorly.
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