i.gizmodo.com - 3/9/2009
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Reader Sean sends in these photos taken outside his local Circuit City store in Almherst, as Best Buy 's Geek Squad pay their final respects to Circuit City. And by that, I mean they bought stuff. Sean tells us that the store was empty down to 3 carts, which meant Circuit City did the only ...
businesswire.com - 3/6/2009
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businesswire.com —
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liquidators managing the going-out-of-business sales
at Circuit City stores nationwide announced today that all...
stores will close permanently on Sunday, March 8, adding that
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Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8
technologizer.com - 3/3/2009
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technologizer.com —
Liquidation: It’s an ugly word for the ugly
process of shutting down a retailer by selling off...
stuff little by little until there’s nothing left that anyone’s going to buy at any price. And my most recent visit to my local branch ...
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The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City
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Circuit City No More, Best Buy Visits
Tech Blog —
... City has closed up for good, or at least until someone buys the rights to their name and revives the chain. Surprisingly enough, even Best Buy's Geek Squad visited a local store for last minute bargains. Click here for one more picture.
Those yellow price tags you see in the image below are how much the shelves went for, which is what the BB people were there to buy. Everything was somewhere between $75 and $250, in case you were wondering.
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The End of Circuit City
GEARFUSE —
circuit_emptywtmk Gizmodo has a few pictures of the last day of Circuit City . Inside? Nothing but fixtures that were apparently sold to a local Best Buy store. I bet Best Buy employees get free cake today. Mmmm, cake. Link
Technologizer —
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Technologizer —
... Hello. Here’s news for you:
Apple touch-screen netbook rumors.
Best Buy visits Circuit City.
Windows Mobile Marketplace teaser appears.
Wolfram Alpha: important as Google?
The Watchmen on your iPhone.
Google eyeing Twitter? No. Yes.
Should Firefox open a store?
The compact disc turns thirty.
The world’s fastest hard disk.
The megapixel wars: over. Hopefully.
CeBit attendance down twenty percent.
Teen ...
Circuit City: And Now It's Dead [Circuit City]
Gizmodo —
It goes out with a pained mumble—not quite a whisper, definitely not a bang. Today, after 50 years, Circuit City no longer exists. A moment of silence is in order. We (and others) have already said goodbye quite a bit: • Best Buy Says Goodbye • Circuit City Employees' Final Words as Circuit City Employees • Why Circuit City Closed (According to Circuit City Employees) • The Circle of Life: Circuit City Buildings to Become High Schools? • A Violent Goodbye • Best ...
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While we failed to find much of anything at the Circuit City liquidation sales, apparently a whole bunch of other people did. The liquidator overloads are reporting that they managed to sell more than $1 billion of Circuit City’s inventory ...
Circuit City to Close Permanently This Weekend —
I4U News 3/6/2009
And the saga of Circuit City comes to an end. The companies managing the liquidation of the left over Circuit city inventory have announced that March 8 will be the last day of operation for the retail electronics chain.
The liquidators have ...
Shelves nearly bare on Circuit City's last day —
SFGate: Technology 3/9/2009
The inside of Circuit City's San Mateo store looked like a picked-over turkey carcass on Sunday - the bankrupt consumer electronics retailer's final day. Long gone were the giant flat screen TVs, home theater sound systems, and aisles of Blu-ray Disc ...