the compUSA near my house shut down about 8 months ago.. i never really bought big stuff there, besides my printer, and router.. but i always turned to them for writable media. i make movies, many of which are distributed throughout my school and they always had the printable dvds that went on sale almost every week, which i cannot find anywhere else.. kinda sucks but it goes to show how our economy works, big convenience with little prices equals success. all the large retailers beat out compUSA big time. kinda like Jamesway, a thing of the past.
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CompUSA To Shut Down
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Most likely nothing. Compusa uses Fifth Third Bank as their processor. They'll continue to bill you under your current terms of service for any promotional deals and but if you default, all bets are probably off. Good opportunity to rid yourself of a credit card.
can't say that I'm surprised. My local comp usa was awful. You could walk around for 15 minutes trying to get someone to help you. Then after finally finding someone, they'd act as if you just caused a major problem in their day. I'm glad comp usa is closing.
well i'm sad to hear this, but all the stores around me already closed down. at least i still have a fry's near me though 
Smells of opportunity
Someone should open an nice little Apple wholesale and service store in your area. They'd have a temporary monopoly. This would go for a lot of smaller markets that won't have an Apple store anytime soon.
I can't believe this. I honestly can't believe that CompUSA would just die like that. I need them! They are the only good Apple retailer within 80 miles of my house. I go in there every so often and just chat with the Apple guy... but now... they're going away!
Someone should open an nice little Apple wholesale and service store in your area. They'd have a temporary monopoly. This would go for a lot of smaller markets that won't have an Apple store anytime soon.
Credit card debt never goes away even in death, your balance will be transfered to a new company which will do everything in there power to collect the balance.
My local Comp USA was recently replaced by a Micro Center, the new Micro Center store is mind blowing!!! the Apple section in the new Micro Center is larger then my local Apple store and better stocked!
You could littera;y spend hours in Micro Center and not be bored at all, I spend an hour in the Apple section alone.
Bravo! Micro Center well done!!!
http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/index.html
http://www.twice.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA6434659
PS. My local Micro Center is in Rockville, Maryland same store where the piece of trash Comp USA was, the gutted the store and remolded it into a state of the art high tech center!
Here are photos of the store.
http://www.ctbarker.info/2007/10/new-micro-center-opens-in-rockville-md.html
http://www.ctbarker.info/2007/10/new-micro-center-opens-in-rockville-md.html
CompUSA was good during the 90s, but since nothing was done to bring it into the new millennium it died. Not at all surprised by this. They probably should've done this sooner.
Peace out CompUSA
Peace out CompUSA
You work at the Fifth Ave. store in NYC? You must have started there sometime in the last year then. Steve Louro was a piece of **** general manager. When we got our first shipment of PS3s, guess where they stayed ? Under his desk. He sold them all to his friends. Most of the time he would just sit on the leather couch in front of the 60" DLP TV and watch movies. And a lot of those people from Dallas were clueless, they would come in and think everything was fine and dandy. I remember my Louro resistantly putting on his red CompUSA shirt (that he was always supposed to be wearing) the few days when he would get visits from Carlos or the Dallas guys. CompUSA just didn't understand the market and wasn't willing to make necessary changes. The management really needed to improve.Well, considering I work there...
"It's that cord that goes in the back of the PC"... :|
On the up side, maybe I can get hired by the Apple Store moving into town
Still, anyway you look at it, that's at least 2000 retail emps out of a job come Jan/Feb/however long they have.
- Kira
Hopefully Best Buy will be getting better with Apple stuff. I worked there for two years, and I got in trouble for recommending Macs to people (because they could only buy them from Best Buy online, which meant the revenue didn't come directly to our store). The managers I had were concerned about their own numbers, not always the customer's best solution.
After two years bouncing from home theater to cameras to computers, I'm glad I don't work there. But I still shop there occasionally, seeing as how I can translate their BS into what I need to know, and I can usually haggle a deal since I know their costs.
After two years bouncing from home theater to cameras to computers, I'm glad I don't work there. But I still shop there occasionally, seeing as how I can translate their BS into what I need to know, and I can usually haggle a deal since I know their costs.
Well I love to shop at CompUSA when there was one near by, because their frequent sales, often the lowest price around after rebate...
I guess we now know why they have the lowest price around. Oh well, too bad...
I guess we now know why they have the lowest price around. Oh well, too bad...
Just like many other areas, CompUSA is the only decent Apple Reseller in my town. We have a place called MacLife, but they jack all their prices up and it feels like a used car lot in there. And I don't particularly care for Best Buy.
I used to pop in to CompUSA frequently to check out all the new Mac products, but I honestly can't remember the last time I actually spent money there.
Time for Apple to step up their retail presence in more than just a handful of states!
I used to pop in to CompUSA frequently to check out all the new Mac products, but I honestly can't remember the last time I actually spent money there.
Time for Apple to step up their retail presence in more than just a handful of states!
I'm not surprised or sad
I'm sure there are good CompUSAs out there, but the ones closest to me have always had some of the worst service and poorest knowledge of Apple products. They got a little better when Tiger was released. They actually seemed to make an attempt to support Apple sales.
It helped that the Apple employee they had there was cute - I mean that she got a fair amount of attention from the employees and she could convince them to learn about Macs and all. But she never had much to do. Only the occasional sale.
Funny, but when that CompUSA closed earlier this year, Apple moved her to Best Buy and she now complains that she is always SO busy. She's had to put in extra hours, even before the holiday rush began.
At CompUSA, the employees seemed to outnumber the customers on an average day.
Guess it doesn't help that Fry's Electronics opened up about 1/2 mile away.
Oh, also, the IT Service manager at the other CompUSA store (still open, so far) is a sleaze ball. I mean, the older fat guy who would sit in his office in back and make lewd comments about female customers. I was looking into doing some of their outsourced Mac work for them until I met him.
I'm sure there are good CompUSAs out there, but the ones closest to me have always had some of the worst service and poorest knowledge of Apple products. They got a little better when Tiger was released. They actually seemed to make an attempt to support Apple sales.
It helped that the Apple employee they had there was cute - I mean that she got a fair amount of attention from the employees and she could convince them to learn about Macs and all. But she never had much to do. Only the occasional sale.
Funny, but when that CompUSA closed earlier this year, Apple moved her to Best Buy and she now complains that she is always SO busy. She's had to put in extra hours, even before the holiday rush began.
At CompUSA, the employees seemed to outnumber the customers on an average day.
Guess it doesn't help that Fry's Electronics opened up about 1/2 mile away.
Oh, also, the IT Service manager at the other CompUSA store (still open, so far) is a sleaze ball. I mean, the older fat guy who would sit in his office in back and make lewd comments about female customers. I was looking into doing some of their outsourced Mac work for them until I met him.
Too bad. CompUSA was here in western MA selling Macs and Apple software when there was no other in-person source. Even now with an Apple store here, it's still the place to go for selection of all things computer when the few select items at the Apple store don't cover what your looking for. There is no other place around here that has whole aisles just of mice or web cams or all sorts of internal and external drives.
I quit shopping at CompUSA when over about 6 months time I had several terrible customer service experiences there.
I would often go in and ask for help or a product, and the employees would tell me completely wrong information. They would sometimes tell me "such a product doesn't exist," then I would go find it on their shelves.
Though I am disappointed when any store closes down, because I like choice and competition in the market place. I don't see CompuUSA as a great loss.
I would often go in and ask for help or a product, and the employees would tell me completely wrong information. They would sometimes tell me "such a product doesn't exist," then I would go find it on their shelves.
Though I am disappointed when any store closes down, because I like choice and competition in the market place. I don't see CompuUSA as a great loss.
See ya later CompUSA, up next Circuit City
Circuit City fired their key employees and hired them back at half the pay rate. With moral like this, plus the fact that their stores have never been that great, they will be the next shop to close its doors.
Look for them not to make it to Christmas '08
For those who don't like Best Buy, don't worry. If enough people dislike them, someone else will come along and fill the need. That's the beauty of Capitalism.
Al
Circuit City fired their key employees and hired them back at half the pay rate. With moral like this, plus the fact that their stores have never been that great, they will be the next shop to close its doors.
Look for them not to make it to Christmas '08
For those who don't like Best Buy, don't worry. If enough people dislike them, someone else will come along and fill the need. That's the beauty of Capitalism.
Al
If any retail sector has been hit by the rise and rise of online shopping it's stores like CompUSA. 95% of anything I buy that's computer-related I buy online.
In the UK, PC World - a similar store - hasn't closed branches but they have really slimmed down product lines now and seem to have bulked up on stationary and cheap impulse buys.
By coincidence, the rise of online retailing happened alongside a massive credit expansion meaning both online and offline retail could grow at pace. Now that there's a credit tightening, that's only in it's early days, we'll see exactly how far retail has shifted to online. I suspect, when the supply of credit dries up we'll see more trade has 'gone online' than people realise.
In the UK, PC World - a similar store - hasn't closed branches but they have really slimmed down product lines now and seem to have bulked up on stationary and cheap impulse buys.
By coincidence, the rise of online retailing happened alongside a massive credit expansion meaning both online and offline retail could grow at pace. Now that there's a credit tightening, that's only in it's early days, we'll see exactly how far retail has shifted to online. I suspect, when the supply of credit dries up we'll see more trade has 'gone online' than people realise.
All those retailers will eventually shut. Best Buy, Circuit City, etc.
I think Fry's might survive because the incredible amount of things they sell.
If they want to survive they have to be creative and amazing CS in order to make it.
CompUSA was gone few months ago from where I live.
Too bad, but the internet prices are hard to beat and the convenience too.
I think Fry's might survive because the incredible amount of things they sell.
If they want to survive they have to be creative and amazing CS in order to make it.
CompUSA was gone few months ago from where I live.
Too bad, but the internet prices are hard to beat and the convenience too.
Once upon a time I lived in San Jose, California. I never went to Compusa or Best Buy. I only went to Fry's. Then I moved to a little town called Spokane. They only have Compusa and Best Buy. Compusa is 500 feet from my work. I bought many Mac things from there. But, now we only have Best Buy. I hope they bring an Apple Store to my area.
Apple should sell only in Apple stores now
Now that they have hundreds of stores, Apple should not use other chains. The Apple counter at Best Buy here in Aventura manages to be empty, with no attendant. The Apple Store at the mall usually has 10 to 100 customers at all times. It cheapens Apple to be in the same roof as discounted cameras that have been abused by customers with stolen batteries and twisted parts and nobody cares.
Now that they have hundreds of stores, Apple should not use other chains. The Apple counter at Best Buy here in Aventura manages to be empty, with no attendant. The Apple Store at the mall usually has 10 to 100 customers at all times. It cheapens Apple to be in the same roof as discounted cameras that have been abused by customers with stolen batteries and twisted parts and nobody cares.