But if that happens, what will The Consumerist report on???

From the AP article:
"The dismal environment also has claimed retailers including KB Toys and Mervyns."

I take this to mean the dismal physical environment of their stores. No arguments here.

For me, it wasn't their bad prices, or their bad customer service that got me, it was the fact that it took 20 minutes to ring up an order. I'm not sure if this was the case everywhere, but the CC by me always had empty check out register, and you had to go to the customer service line for every transaction. So, while I'm waiting to buy a $20 DVD, I'm in line with returns, complaints, etc.

That said, I did get guitar hero 3 for like $30.

Now I do sympathize with some of the lower groups but come ON! You could go into a CC and the DVDs were trashed along with any other product in the store when they were open full time. The liquidation actually helped organize the store! Besides from what the company pulled last year most of the good workers were terminated for being productive.

What I would personally LOVE to see is the executives and management from this company get blackballed in the entire industry so that they could NEVER work in management again EVER! They will be in college/business textbooks from this year forward as the actions not to do if you want to run a successful company.

How stupid could a company be? Stop selling appliances? Lay off your good workers? Play games with customers? Yup they did it all and more. Good riddance and may Best buy follow soon or take the example and improve.

@BPA-Free_GitEmSteveDave: A co-worker was telling me a similar story. But the company that was saying "The check is in the mail." is now saying "We're out of business, we can't help you."

I also got a Logitech G15 keyboard for $50. While I don't think that was an _amazing_ deal, just very good, it was the first version of the G15, which is the one I had been looking for.

This means a whole lot of people got suckered by the liquidation "sale" if all of the inventory was sold out weeks sooner than expected. It also means our economy isn't bad if people had the money to buy $1.7 billion in jacked up inventory.

Retail is always evolving.

This makes an excellent excuse for getting rid of bad people and companies.

To wit: CC made the Capone Mob look TQM-compliant.
More to wit: Goody's cheap Chinese clothing could not hold a candle to Wal-Mart's cheap Indonesian clothing.
Also to wit: How many bad employees are no longer with YOUR employer?

I piss on Circuit City's grave.

@TheSpatulaOfLove: If by everything, you mean 1 of every piece of crap product imaginable in an oversized store with barely any staff available even on a slow day, then yeah. It's like a crappier version of Wal-Mart for the chain around here.. mind you, I also despise Wal-Mart. [Wears his Wal-Marx t-shirt with pride]

And what of those who have outstanding rebates due that were promised to us after many rebate checks bounced? I am waiting on 30 bucks. It said it was a manufacturer's rebate and it was for a Microsoft keyboard. But the rebate was sent to a Circuit City address box. I would gladly donate it to charity (the local food bank or soup kitchen who will be feeding former employees here in Flint Mi as there aren't any jobs for them anywhere. Anybody got any ideas?

There are a few victims in this - namely those few employees (at corporate and in the stores) that actually enjoyed their jobs and tried to provide good customer service. Granted, I never met any of them, but I know that there must be some.

The guilty, however, have gone free without any charges against them. These are the Circuit City corporate executives, senior management, and board members that sanctioned years and years of boneheaded decisions, resulting in stupefyingly idiotic policies.

Make no mistake - Circuit City deserves its fate. But that leaves the US with essentially one national consumer electronics chain (Best Buy) and monopolies are rarely good for the consumer. Radio Shack, Walmart, Target, and numerous regional chains may try to rise to occupy the voice left by Circuit City, but no one knows for sure what will happen in this economy.

Circuit City is gone and consumers are better off for it. All you big-box retailers - heed the lessons of CC's passing and do not repeat their mistakes.

How can an economy get moving again if MORE jobs are lost.

Wasn't the only other option Canadian Tire? That place has EVERYTHING.

I always felt they were overpriced and used too many mail-in rebates on sales .

Good riddance... Hopefully more shoddy companies follow suit soon...

Get me out of here!!!

Onward and upward and all that jazz.

The only thing it means to me is more parking up close to Toys R Us.

Like at my local store, trying to sell a $70 product for "$349 with 80% off" is just their final way of sticking their middle finger up to the consumers.

As the article said; every single major decision in their recent history was screwed up by someone in CC management.

Of course, those same managers probably left with millions, while 35,000 retail workers will be out on the street.

Sad.

"Telecommunications company Bell Canada is buying a chain of 750 The Source by Circuit City electronics stores across Canada operated by the company's InterTAN subsidiary. And Hilco Merchant Resources LLC, a Northbrook, Ill.-based retail consulting and liquidation firm, said it hopes to buy the brand name and Web site."

The dead will walk soon enough...