Circuit City will be going completely out of business and closing its doors at the end of the day tomorrow, ending their going-out-of-business a few days early.
According to the Great American Group, one of the liquidation firms in charge of CC, the retailer's $1.7 billion in inventory is almost done, with little to no products left in any store.
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Originally posted by grkblood: if you need help go grab somebody. who cares if they dont ask you. its not their job to hold your hand during shopping. Also, its not like they are going to deny you assistance if you ask.
Have you even bothered to READ what other people including myself have went through at their stores?
If you would have bothered to read the responses, you would have seen that even WHEN people ask for help they are not GIVEN IT!
So enough with the flippant response that people should just find everything themselves! That attitude is stupid at best, especially when you are talking about retail service! If you are in retail and you cannot even be bothered to help someone who asks, you deserve what you get!
So enough with this crap about it not being there job, it most certianly WAS if they were an employee in that store....and I could care LESS what they were doing or what their position was, they could have gotten help for the people who asked if they could not give it themselves.
Though from what I and others on this board have seen at their stores, being on the phone talking to your girlfriend is no excuse for glaring at a customer who wants to just check out.
So in my opinion, the people that acted like fools and didn't want to wait on customers deserved what they got....standing in an unemployment line!
I just feel sorry for other employees who may not have been like that, but I have to say, I NEVER came across any "good" employees in Circut City!
The only concept that I liked about Circuit City was the ability to make a purchase on-line and then go to the store and pick it up. I only did this once for an item that was on sale that I wanted right away. Typically even with shipping, making a purchase from another online retailer is always cheaper than CC.
Originally posted by slickwill: I've always preferred Fry's over Best Buy and Circuit City because of the discounts they have on merchandise every week, which they publish in the daily news paper. However, there aren't that many Frys' stores compared to Best Buy.
I hate the people working at Best Buy, yet I still shop there. There truly aren't that many "knowledgeable" sales people in stores anymore. Whenever I shop, I never trust any "young" sales person. You should always do your homework before buying. For example, last boxing day at Best Buy I asked this teenager (working in the blu-ray section) if they had anymore Sony-S550s in stock...didn't even know what the hell I was talking about. It seems to me that best buy, future shop, and most electronics stores just hire a whole bunch of idiots off the street. I feel bad for most consumers, who don't know a lot about electronics; who get sucked into buying crap off some punk teenage kid who doesn't know a damn thing about what he/she is selling. Circuit City is out now; Best Buy might be soon if they don't make some changes before consumers realize what they are really doing to them.
Yeah, I never rely on the sales rep for anything. I usually do my research online, and if Fry's just so happens to have the item, I just walk in and buy it without talking to a sales rep. The only time I talk to a sales rep is to ask where an item is or if anymore is in stock.
One time, I went into Fry's looking for a cheap 2gb Sony Duo, and the employee told me that the only one left in stock (of that type of duo) was a returned item. I asked if the item was discounted, and he said no because the item was tested and found in proper working order. After purchasing the item, the 2gb did work, but the Pro Duo to Pro adapter didn't work. I didn't bother taking it back.....not worth my time.
I really feel sorry for people who rely on Best Buy's Geek Squad, because they over charge for services that anyone can do if they just took the time and did their own research. For example, I heard that installing an optical drive costs up to $100 dollars, and having a Geek Squad employee come over to your house costs over $200 dollars.
Originally posted by ceja_11: I was just there, there wasn't crap around, just DVD-R's and component cables. that was it. O well By by circuit city.
Oh man I couldn't agree with you more. I checked out that place during their liquidation about 3 or 4 times and then found out early on that they hired a separate liquidation company and that the employees in the store were NOT CC employees. They needed to recover 70% of their losses and customers that went in there thinking they were getting a good deal were sadly mistaken. CC liquidators were robbing people blind and deceiving them.
CC always and I MEAN ALWAYS matched prices on everything. Now they didn't do so on many electronics because they carried higher end like Onkyo and Harmon/Kardon compared to BB's Sony and standard Pioneer crap. CC had older, more knowledgeable people and they ALWAYS ALWAYS answered their phones when you called in. BB NEVER does......especially departments.
Hey......people that preferred BB to CC were generally white trash or trash all-in-all. Sorry all you ghetto peeps.......I just call 'em as I see 'em.
JEEEEZ! CC dies & everyone's ass is in a knot about whether or not they employed unhelpful/cluless high school students or some items were priced $2.00 higher than WallMart! It's the ECONOMY, stupid!
I did not think CC had competive pricing most of the time. Even during the 'fire sale' I did not find any buys. I don't ask salesmen for advice. I do think BB has more motivated employees.
