Last Tuesday, based on industry-insider information provided “on background,” we told you that this could be coming, and here it is: CompUSA announced Friday it will close all its stores after the Christmas shopping season. So to all you doubters, we offer a rousing, “nyah, nyah.” Rumor of the impending shutdown was also given to The Boy Genius Report via a leaked internal Best Buy memo.
Sales will be held over the holidays to try to offload inventory. Wonder if the deals will be just as crappy as when CompUSA did the liquidation dance earlier this year.
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores [AP] (Thanks to Doug!)
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@mammalpants:
Wow — bitter much?
Yup, They aleady closed the store around here months ago in Danvers, MA, it just couldn’t compete with the best buy they put in. CompUSA had much higher prices so I’m not surprised or really upset for them.. They have th same product, they can sell it at the same price.
@Consumerist Moderator – ACAMBRAS:
sorry about that! repressed memories!
@scoobydoo: Should have reported him.
@reykjavik: Not so fast. Bricks and mortar, walk right in, buy, walk out. No shipping and handling costs and no waiting even a day. Best part, spend green dollars if one wants.
7 years late. Now is time to wait 10 more for Best buy. and 25 to that at least 30% of computers users know something about computers to buy less crap and use more efficiently what they have.
It is a generational thing, I know. but at the same time I cant wait for this terrible stores to die and a new generation of retail stores come out of the ashes where the customer gets not a sale guy to do his job, but a true tech support guy that will give you free advice if that is the case. something like when you go to the hardware store and they tell you how to replace the rubber band in the sink instead of telling you and selling you a complete new sink.
shame on you retail stores, shame on us retarded computer users that we dont care to learn and teach.
mmmm, what the hell is in my coffee today?
@reykjavik: Actually, being an online store means you have the same shady characters, only instead of shoplifting you have to deal with stolen credit cards and fraudulent chargebacks. On top of that, everyone expects you to have the absolute rock-bottom price on everything because, hey, you don’t have a physical store, so you don’t need employees and warehousing and distributor markups and electricity and software costs and etc….
CompUSA was so horrible. I still remember walking in there to buy a firewire cable ($55), walking right out, and buying one online for $5 an hour later. Even their latest ‘liquidation’ sales, as mentioned previously, were hardly even on par with say, a regular “Best Buy” sale.
I’m still extremely baffled that nobody has figured out how to sell computer hardware locally without a 100% markup.
Everything still top-dollar in the one closest me as of Friday.
That’s what you get for doing ZERO TV advertisements and having an outrageous return policy (deduct 15% of opened package!!!) Their out-of-business sales isn’t really a sale. They don’t care to liquidate their merchandise anyways since they can sell all their stuff via the web. It’ll all just be moved to the giant warehouse in Missouri or someplace. Best of luck compusa, used to like that store before I discovered newegg.
While I also dislike CompUSA, I am sad that the store in Little Rock is closing. It is one of the few decent CompUSA’s that I have been to.
The staff is fairly knowledgeable and they are quick to answer your questions or help you with anything. The techs are decent. But most of all, the Apple selection is great and the Apple sales guys are fantastic.
@Greasy Thumb Guzik: Dear “Bob”, I hope Radio Shack doesn’t close down. It’s the only place in this hellhole of a valley that I can find a decent soldering iron and cable-making components.
@nutrigm: Best Buy also does 15%. Actually, the CompUSA here only started the 15% fee about six months ago.
@krazyivan: Actually, the damage was done long before Roman took over the company. Larry Mondry pretty much ran this place into the ground when he was in charge. Roman made a valiant effort to get it turned around, but it was just too far gone for him to be successful. After 7 years of CompUSA hemorraging his money, I’m not at all surprised that Carlos Slim finally decided to sell and close us down.