Circuit City stores across the U.S. descended into chaos this weekend following the box chain’s demise earlier this week, with many outlets reporting long lines, spotty sales and insanity that had supplanted consumers’ good sense.
Below are a few sporadic examples of the horror you’ll find within a Circuit City this weekend. However, this one damning tidbit I’ll provide beforehand might be all you need to know.
Allegedly, one of our tipsters told us today that their Circuit City actually had the audacity to sell new, unopened Nintendo Game Cubes for $US50. Insanity!
But wait, there’s more:
• Consumers were apparently “swarming everywhere,” breathless with questions for employees who were not there to answer them
• Questions for managers were directed to the liquidators; they had no power there anymore
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• “One male employee in the section I was browsing, spent most of the time I was there (about 15 minutes) pleading ignorance and searching for a manager who never (apparently) materialised,” said a source at CNET.
Deals were reportedly about 10% off, 20% on movies. Hellish. [CNET via Kotaku — Thanks, Vince!]
Ryan
Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:45 PMI work/worked for Circuit City, and seriously, if you wanted a tailored shopping experience, you should’ve come in when it might’ve saved our business. Now I seriously could care less about what your questions are.
cf
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 5:10 AMScrew ‘em! That place was always a rip-off shysterbarn staffed with ignorant, unbathed morons anyway. Let ‘em close, I say good riddance!!!
Alex
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9:43 AMI say good riddance, they were crazy over priced and even bumped up their prices for their liquidation!
LCD monitor: $190 for the generic 20″.. Frys: Brand name for $129.
Screw’em.
Dean
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 1:24 AMRyan, I understand your frustration, but you should always work with pride… even until the end. Remember, some of these customers did shop there trying to save the company. I know I did.
cf and Alex… way to be heartless! Since their restructuring CC has brought in some good people and they were turning things around. They have a price matching guarantee, so any local price is matched whether they are overpriced or not. The big picture is that you are glad thousands of people have been added to the already long unemployment line. These people will be lucky to find a job in this economy and with this news the economy will only get worse. You’re either rich, ignorant, jerks or some variation thereof.
Good luck to all of those people that now find themselves struggling for their survival.
Portnoy
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM“One male employee in the section…”
is it necessary to put the gender of the employee here? What were they thinking when doing this?
and what’s up with the “bad dad” murderer steoreotype? Why not put a mother who stabbed someone, walking with her daugher instead?