Who else remembers Circuit City? I loved the place as a kid and wish we had more tech stores
Who else remembers Circuit City? I loved the place as a kid and wish we had more tech stores
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We have the likes of Amazon to blame for these big box stores dying out. The convenience of delivery made us neglect the experience of going to stores. I think there is a cycle to it all though. Sears started out as a catalog type store that would deliver but then they went all in on physical stores and didnt adapt with the times. I’m lucky enough to be only a couple hours from Micro Center and its a fun trip to make once or twice a year but…yeah…
dude seeing that 2nd picture with the GH3 display makes me feel so damn nostalgic and sad
My work colleague worked many decades for Circuit City IT. Shout out to Scott, I hope he’s doing alright.
This looks just like argos or maplins in the uk
I’ve actually never been in a Circuit City before. We always went to Best Buy or Fry’s. Now Microcenter.
Circuit city was good, but nobody beats the whiz
God never forgave us for failing circut city
CompUSA was even better
I worked there in the late 90s!
At that time, they had their normal “Best Buy sized” stores, but they also had “concept” stores that were smaller, with the “top 30%” offerings in each category – so the more expensive audio gear, more premium TV brands, etc. I worked at one of those, made a lot of money and generally had a good time playing with the toys.
When I started, they flew me out east somewhere (Virginia I think?) and I spent a week on their dime (hotel, food, the whole bit) training on their sales process.
It was a much different time and I remember it fondly.
The discount wasn’t anything to sneeze at, either!
I used to work in the warehouse : )
lol ps2 brand new for $129, people on ebay want $100 now for a used one all by itself
In college I had an interview at Circuit City. Sat down with the manager and the first thing he said was ‘We’re not actually hiring, but we can still do the interview.” Like, just don’t set up an interview. Just ignore my application like the other jobs. This was JUST before they fired all their best salesmen and screwed themselves in a downward spiral.
Our Circuit City went out of business just a few years before I started getting into electronics as a hobby so I never got to see the inside of mine while it was still here
I purchased that Xbox 360 bundle when this flier came out! I miss going into Circuit City
I remember getting Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead in the clearance bin at the old Madison location before it closed. Man those were some good days!
We’d have more tech stores we’d buy more at tech stores.
We had a citcuit city in my local mall up until like…2010? It used to be the place my family bought electronics from. Then it turned into the place to buy niche electronics – like an audio cable from a 2002 receiver that was proprietary for some reason, but they still had it in stock.
Eventually the store closed and I upgraded my parents whole tv / audio setup with industry standard stuff.
Big shout out to TCL’s 65″ roku TV by the way. It’s not the prettiest or has tons of features. But it’s been running for like 6 years now and I think I only paid $500 for it at the time.
Welcome to Circuit City!
Where service is state of the art!
Apex DVD players. IYKYK
Vividly remember them and their commercials. I hole heartedly believe “my 40 year old
Virgin” was mimicking them.
The late 90 / early 2000’s was peak box store electronics.
Circuit city was cool… until i walked into frys for the first time.
On the bright side, they cant prove or disprove that you were a manager at Circuit City on your resume
I used to work there back in the day.
I was a Fry’s Electronics kid.
I was a compusa guy
Got my first PC at circuit city. A Compaq with a 166 MHz cpu if I remember correctly.
That’s the place where service was state of the art
I worked there in it’s dying days.
Absolutely soulless, wretched place. Ran by absolute idiots.
Laid off all of the highest paid staff, basically the people that knew what they were doing and making all the money at a Wednesday morning meeting with zero notice.
I went from loss prevention to sales that day.
Absolutely deserved to die. Nothing was ever in stock, every ad they ran was bait and switch, the complete shit show that was black Friday… I do not miss those days inspite of being horrifically overpaid by their bonus structure… after they fired all the people that had been with the company for years.
At best the only good ones are Best Buy….. if they ever get pc parts in stock unless you want tvs or monitors, because their warrenties are amazing especially for OLEDs.
The other being Micro Center, however there is barley any near me and sucks if your rural, because at best it’s a 2 hour drive or more.
In short we are going to see more so warehouse stores that will be where items are stored and will be deposited to online buyers and we all can thank Amazon for this and the people who don’t want to take the time to drive to a location and if almost every store becomes warehouse then everybody will be inside their house and could mess with someones health especially mentally too.
Honestly I am sorry for the last part just it feels like the fun factor of tech stores is fading and it just depresses me to see happen.
Ah yes and Fry’s Electronics. I’m glad we just got a micro center here in Miami.
A remember the day my brother & I walked in and saw the Guitar Hero 1 display, and we played one song and walked out with a copy epic times.
Guy on his Nokia e63 or is that a blackberry? Back on topic I bought my first lcd there. A 40” Sony for $2k lol
Worked there off and on from Oct 2000 to Feb 2007. AMA
Amazon out them out of business. I remember when they went bankrupt. It was when Amazon was blowing up. Best buy almost went under itself but managed to survive.
Anyone remember Future Shop?
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