[starman]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/0...a-back-fr.html

I'm not sure they can make it in this market now, but I'll be happy to have another local gadget store if they reopen around me. I really hate having to mail order crap when I need something on a Sunday.

[SpaceMonkey]

Can't wait to see the redesigned lighting!

[rickey939]

Dumb.

[brassplayersrock²]

Stupid.

[shifuimam]

It sounds like they may be turning into an alternative to Fry's, which would be great. There aren't nearly enough Fry's locations in the United States (I feel lucky to have one in Indianapolis, personally). If CompUSA can cut the overpriced crap and start selling things at reasonable rates, I'll be more than happy to check them out. It would be nice to have another local or semi-local place where I can pick up things like USB cables and thumb drives that don't have a 300% markup attached to them.

[starman]

Originally Posted by shifuimam 

It sounds like they may be turning into an alternative to Fry's, which would be great. There aren't nearly enough Fry's locations in the United States

This....times eleventy billion.

I went from having the choice of any electronics type I want in a 4-mile radius, to BestBuy only.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Wired

"We have invented this idea of retail 2.0," says Gilbert Fiorentino, chief executive of the Technology Products Group at Systemax, now parent company of CompUSA. Fiorentino is also the founder of Tiger Direct, a web only electronics retailer and another subsidiary of Systemax. "Every screen in every CompUSA store is now connected to the internet and making buying a richer experience for customers," he says.

Uhhh, that’s not you inventing “retail 2.0”, it’s just catching up with what every other electronics retailer has been doing for the past three years.

(I sincerely hope that garish neon-tube lighting hanging from a factory-hangar-style grid ceiling as shown in the pictures in that article isn’t the new ‘improved lighting’ they’re referring to)