{"id":1765,"date":"2007-12-10T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2007-12-10T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T17:59:03","slug":"and-there-was-rejoicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"And There Was Rejoicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foot <a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/mitchman-prophesies.html\">brings the word<\/a>; CompUSA is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/products\/gear\/2007-12-07-compusa-sold_N.htm\">circling the drain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its store operations after the holidays following sale of the company to Gordon Brothers Group, a restructuring firm. Financial terms weren&#8217;t disclosed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Dallas-based CompUSA has struggled for nearly a decade with falling prices on personal computers, its most important product, and competition from big-box retailers such as Best Buy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Also surly, hostile service, unimaginative and stodgy marketing, a terrible website, stores with downright off-putting phone autoattendants that rarely found a human destination, and being a rotten, cold, irritating place to shop.\u00a0 Sort of like the K-Mart of electronics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The silver lining &#8211; besides the chain&#8217;s forthcoming extinction itself?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">CompUSA operates 103 stores, which plan to run store-closing sales during the holidays.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">I think I could salvage just a <em>tad<\/em> of goodwill&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\u00a0It would be up to the buyers whether to continue the CompUSA name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Note to buyers:\u00a0 no.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foot brings the word; CompUSA is circling the drain: Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its store operations after the holidays following sale of the company to Gordon Brothers Group, a restructuring firm. Financial terms weren&#8217;t disclosed. The reason? Dallas-based CompUSA has struggled for nearly a decade with falling prices on personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}