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Cat Herder


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http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/28/technology/compusa.reut/index.htm?section=money_mostpopular

CompUSA is closing over 50% of it's stores within the next couple months.

Did any of you know the company is actually just a holding company for the Mexican parent company owned by a Mexican billionaire?

Here in Motown, we will end up losing all the CompUSA stores and essentially be left with nothing to replace it.  Yeah, we have a couple Apple Stores and a MicroCenter (which is not that great of a replacement or alternative to CrapUSA)... I'm just gonna love having to go to Best Buy or Circuit City to buy my computer stuff now...   In Motown, CrapUSA WAS the top of the heap as far as computer type chain stores...

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I had heard that. I haven't been to a CompUSA in a while, since most things I order online anymore.
I was suprised when I learned that it was owned by a rich Mexican; I was even more surprised to learn that he's one of the richest men in the world.
When I lived in California, there was Fry's Electronics. They had everything, and at pretty good prices. But the staff was as clueless as a bbq grill salesman at a greenpeace rally.

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Fry's :drool: My life would be so much better if I accidentally got locked in one night and could spend 8 hours wandering around with nobody else in the store...

The closest one is 30 minutes away, but I'll make the drive anytime, in any weather, for any reason.

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We have a Fry's in Renton. Every Saturday morning on the way home from the temple, I am tempted by the place... gratefully, I've never yet succumbed, due to the strength I get from going to the Temple. So hey... that could be like a lesson or something.

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It is insidious how they wind the checkout line through several racks of candy.

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Fry's is a good 25 minutes away from our home...  unfortunately, we make the trip all too often.

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We don't have a CompUSA or a Fry's and have managed just fine.  If I can't get it locally I order it online.



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The nearest CompUSA is over an hour away. I think I've only been there three time since it opened back in 1997 or 1998. So I guess I won't be feeling your pain Cat.

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Yah. CompUSA didn't really penetrate the Puget Sound area either. There's one in Tukwila that is nestled between a Circuit City and a Best Buy. Of the three, they had the worst prices and the stores were not well organized.

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Ahhh, Tukwila. I miss Zoopa's in Tukwila SOOOO much.

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Cat Herder


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I won't be feeling much of my pain either, actually.  I would go to CompUSA simply because they were closer than MicroCenter's one location and it was typically a one stop solution if I needed more than one thing.  But, being a Mac person, I usually do mail order for software and hardware anyway.  There simply will not be a place to go to if I'm in a lurch for software need quickly.  And, I can get used to going to Staples or other places for CDs, DVDs, paper, and other consumables not mail ordered.

One of the IT guys at my client (who is also a Mac guy) filled me in Tuesday to this downfall of CompUSA going down, and he also praised this place called Fry's, hoping that they decide to come into the market here.  If they do, let it be under the condition that they hire people who know what they are talking about and who will advise customers correctly as opposed to just trying to upsell stuff...

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Cat Herder


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{Bill Cosby voice} What's a Zoopa? {/Bill Cosby voice}

Around these parts, that sounds like a Greek restaurant or something...

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Ahh... Zoopas... They've built an Olive Garden across the street from that place now... And there's now a Thai place in the same shopping center that's supposed to be pretty good.

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Ray,


How far are you away from Mukilteo?

My mission bud lives there.

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