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technologizer.com - 3/3/2009

The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City

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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 of the soon-to-be-defunct Circuit City in the ...

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businesswire.com - 3/6/2009

Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8

— 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 (more) Circuit City Stores Closing Permanently on March 8

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i.gizmodo.com - 3/9/2009

Best Buy Says Goodbye to Circuit City [Circuit City]

— i.gizmodo.com — 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 ... (more) Best Buy Says Goodbye to Circuit City [Circuit City]

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youtube.com - 3/9/2009

The last day at Circuit City (video)

— youtube.com — Boing Boing Gadgets visits Circuit City at Robinson, PA., near Pittsburgh, on the last day of its... liquidation sales. http://gadgets.boingboing.net (more) The last day at Circuit City (video)

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Afternoon Linkage for March 3rd, 2009
GEARFUSE — Afternoon Linkage for March 3rd, 2009 By Vince Veneziani March 3, 2009 Comments (0) Filed under: Features Insert witty caption here. The last days of Circuit City Miranda Lounge Chair Resident Evil 5 has leaked onto torrent sites Own a one-of-a-kind Damien Hirst Harley-Davidson Supreme and Lou Reed Would you wear a Wind Helmet? Wow. Supersick pad, dude BREAK GLASS IN EMERGENCY Breath control play Have great links you want showcased on Afternoon Linkage? E-mail us: tips AT gearfuse DOT ...

Circuit City's last day: March 8
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... , with "deeper discounts" expected through the final days. Those who've gone to take a long, last look at the remaining, tattered Circuit City stores have reported some pretty depressing scenes. Harry McCracken at Technologizer found his local store in a "gloomy disarray" earlier this week—"one part rummage sale, one part junk closet, and barely recognizable as the splashy consumer-electronics merchant that has been around for sixty years." ...

Attention, Bargain Hunters: Circuit City Is Now Closing
Today @ PC World — ... are all gone. What’s left? When it comes to the final days of a liquidation sale, you can never tell. Maybe there’s a 32-inch HDTV with a cracked bezel, an open 50-pack of DVD-R discs (with a few missing), or a demo laptop that may or may not boot. [image] Liquidation sales are always a bit sad: Roped-off areas to shrink the retail space; open boxes with manuals, cables, and other flotsam scattered everywhere. Harry McCracken of Technologizer captured the mood beautifully in his The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City pictorial. It’s hard to believe that Circuit City was once ...

The Last Will and Testament of Circuit City
Technologizer — ... . All U.S. stores are therefore closing forever as of tomorrow. And so I made what will almost certainly be my last visit ever to my local Circuit City today, six days after I found it had been reduced to selling used cleaning supplies.  Back on Monday, it still stocked some factory-fresh consumer electronics products, too–albeit at discounts too low to send anyone into a shopping frenzy. Today, with 24 hours to go, very little worth buying at any price was still available… ...