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Breaking: Circuit City -- the end

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by steveu, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    This is the last thing newspapers want to hear, but another major national advertiser might be going under. Circuit City's liquidating the rest of its stores, with about 35,000 put out of work.

    I'd link up, but MSNBC doesn't have an active link yet.

    Ouch. I preferred Best Buy, but this still sucks for papers that have CC as an advertiser.
     
  2. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Which is everyone, right? CC was consistent as anything with their Sunday circulars.

    Epic fail.
     
  3. Grimace

    Grimace Guest

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Shit. Sucks for many, many reasons. 35,000 people out of work. Damn.
     
  4. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/CIRCGAT16_20090116-103607/180128/

    Not much there now, but Circuit City is a Richmond-based company, so they'll probably update throughout the day.
     
  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Was about to post this.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090116/bs_nm/us_circuitcity_3

     
  6. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Does this mean we should all run out and buy plasma TV's at 75 percent off?
     
  7. Diabeetus

    Diabeetus Active Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    No apostrophe needed to make something plural, Zag.

    One of the first stores to close (in the first round of cuts) was near me. Once they sold off all the merchandise, they started selling everything else. The displays, shelving, carts, even the fire extinguishers were on sale. Quite fascinating, in a really sad way.
     
  8. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Delete the question mark from the slug. Circuit City has confirmed that it is liquidating.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_bi_ge/circuit_city_bankruptcy_1
     
  9. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    S'o yo'u ar'e sa'yin'g w'e ca'n al'l g'o ther'e an'd bu'y TV's, CD's, C'D player's, GP'S device's, X-Box's, Play'station's an'd eve'n th'e disp'lay case's the'y a're o'n two?
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    ye's
     
  11. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Re: Breaking: Circuit City going under?

    Goo'd tw'o n'o
     
  12. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Thanks. Post fixed to reflect the new news. Damn. :(
     
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