Inside, it was close to pandemonium. The manager would not let me take pictures inside the store. Consumers swarming everywhere: every one of them with at least a few breathless questions and scant employees to provide answers. And consumers seemingly snapping up anything that wasn’t nailed down. I’ve never seen so many HP wide-screen monitors in one checkout line.
One male employee in the section I was browsing, spent most of the time I was there about 15 minutes pleading ignorance and searching for a manager who never apparently materialized.
A female employee I talked to outside she was on break said no one knew it would happen–until it happened.
What was ironic and sad was that I had been to this same Circuit City a few weeks before and an employee had boasted that this store would not close in the wake of the limited nationwide store closings Circuit City had announced in November and would be around for a long time.
What amazes me is how many people buy the electronic crap du jour at Sam’s Club or those god awful Home Shopping Networks.
Bah. Regular prices at Amazon are WAY better. I went to the CC down the street. No wonder they are going out of business. Their hovering salespeople always annoyed me. Good riddance!
CC, best buy…same shit, same smell.
Anyone shopping at these places for electronics should never be allowed to own any of it.
Shop at a local specialty shop – better staff, more knowledge, prices might be a bit higher but hell it’s worth it knowing you’re not supporting crappy companies like best buy who continually prove they don’t give a shit about you.
Online stores are great, but…………
I remember Tower Records on a Saturday, browsing through new releases, it was like a club.
And the Virgin Mega store in Times Square was like a Vegas Casino, with a movie theater and restaurant…ah the old days.
Agreed. CC should have followed Hillary Clinton’s advice and not had all those layoffs.
Smash Bros rules!
Circuit City found out too late that all they had to do was discount their stuff, oh the irony.