Blockbuster of all people lols, anyways my town used to have one of the last few remaining blockbusters but now it's gone.
Used to visit the place once or twice for a film, but then we got Netflix, and even used a bit of Blockbusters own mailing service before we went full on Netflix.
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Anyways a circuit city was built in this mall that kinda verged on being dead; It was the first major electronic store to ever inhabit the town while the other cities in the area all had best buys.
For a town that only had small electronic stores and just Radioshacks that was a neat prospect.
Although we really didn't buy much from the store it felt good having an electronic store besides just radioshack or just best buys that are miles away. Now the space at the mall is just a Gold's Gym with the mall doing in much better shape than it was.
i always got CC mixed with staples/officemax.
I was expecting a tour of an abandoned circuit city
cool video nonetheless
It's pretty crazy that such a big store can just fall over just like that.
I enjoyed shopping at CompUSA over Circuit City.
I got a fallout 3 goty lunch pale edition for $30 during their collapse. They just had pallets of them. This was weeks after the game released, and it was awesome.
[QUOTE=Joshii;51177960]It's pretty crazy that such a big store can just fall over just like that.[/QUOTE]
Well unfortunately, time and time its been shown many failed retailers just did not adapt to the times with the internet taking a huge bite out of the potential revenue. We had our own electricals store failure with Comet a few years back, it just buried its head in the sand as it headed towards collapse.
It also didn't help that Circiut City just couldn't for the life of it have any actually good prices especially before it completely collapsed.
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Would have been neat to see the interiors of some of the abandoned stores. Particularly the massive one in Colorado.
I never walked into a store that felt more 90's than Circuit City
Getting rid of commission sales was one of the killing blows to that company.
It didn't help that they got a CEO who came from Best Buy and tried to turn Circuit City into Best Buy too. The market already had a Best Buy, it was bound to die if it mimicked them.
Circuit City's pull was the fact that they treated customers so well. They had lots of employees (you can have lots of employees with commission sales) who would immediately offer to help you (because of commission) and were usually very well versed in the products they were selling and because it was commission and despite popular belief they wanted to get you the product that was right for you and was what you wanted, not shovel expensive shit at you for $$$ because any return they do hurts your commission, you don't want customers to do returns, hence you try to treat your customers well. Also you get repeat customers if you treat them well.
Now all we have is Best Buy. God help you if you need help or anything out of a cage during Christmas. There is no way you'll get help. I worked for Best Buy for a year. The whole company is a shit show and I don't think they'd still be in business if they weren't the only show in town.
My Mom worked for Circuit City for almost ten years. It's one of the best companies she's ever worked for, she made good money too. It wasn't until the last two years or so that they turned into shit and it coincided pretty much with them getting rid of commission. No one had any more motivation to learn their products or treat the customers well.
I had no idea the circuit city brand turned into TigerDirect.
[QUOTE=Saxon;51178269]I never walked into a store that felt more 90's than Circuit City[/QUOTE]
Ever been in a K-mart?
Run down 90s through and through. Right down to the music, the static intercoms, the worn tiles, the products, and the soulless thousand yard empty stares of the employees.
I can vaguely remember visiting one as a kid a couple times. That same store was left abandoned for who knows how many years. Now all the traces are gone and it's a Honda dealership. Funny thing is, in Manchester (NH) the one they had up there was also turned in to a car dealer (VW). They left some traces though, with the stereo install garage signs still hanging. Honestly it's insane how many businesses in the NH area have come in gone. It makes me think the market here is highly volatile. Could've also just been the 2008 recession, but still, even in the past 3 years I've seen dozens come and go.
I do wish this guy's channel featured visits to actual abandoned areas. His knowledge is impressive and interesting, but since he's using a video format he might as well spite us a little and give us what we expect, given his titles!
There's still a Circuit City left near Japantown in SF.
I'm actually not even sure if it's still there but the sign still is.
Our Circuit City is still there. It was empty for years, bought to be turned into a Gym and than they gave up and never opened so it's empty again.
It's still got it's red paint scheme and all that.
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I'm also 99% sure this picture from the video is my Circuit City.
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I remember that days when I would get ecstatic when I saw my NetFlix video coming in the mail.
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