Thats because he kept doing what a bunch of old geezeers in TX told him to do with the company instead of listening to the young kids who worked the front lines and knew what the customers were asking for.

Oh and the one piss poor TV add campaign they ran didn't help either when they were trying to compete against Best Buy and their 30 million add spots.

Can't say I am surprised. Between bad pricing, poor service, and (on some items) poor choice in stock they had to have been loosing business. I know they lost mine to Micro Center a while back.

Looks like 14million right off the top, wonder how his portfollio is doing.

worked there for 5 years, I saw a ton of bad managment decisions and saw this coming from miles away.

Poor customer service often has alot to do with bad managment (although it also can stem from bad employees) I saw a store that was one of the top 10 in the company go to one of the bottom 25 due to poor managment.

I saw corporate invest thousands into a gaming center to bring life into the company and individual store managers fight it tooth and nail including trying to keep gamers out of the store.

I saw hundreds of thousands poured into a new line of computers to compete with dell or gateway and so much attention to design that they cost twice for the specs what a dell or gateway would have cost.

Ahh well, it could have been a good company.

A shame. They had great specials from time to time.

It was always hard trying to get help at CompUSA in the many years I shopped there. Understaffed. It got to the point I'd go there to look and then order online. 6 computers in our house, PC's and Macs. They should have carred a lot more Mac peripherals too. Usually when I was in the Mac section, one poor guy was trying to help the 10 people waiting. I usually left in frustration after finding they didn't have what I needed in the first place and then ordering it online.

There were two Comp USAs near me. Both used to piss me off with pushy sales persons. As a result, I hated to go there.

I remember going into one in King of Prussia (I believe it was King of Prussia, it was several years ago, so I could be wrong here, but I do know it was a CompUSA). That place sucked. Therefore I am not sorry to hear the company is going the way of the dodo.

The computer retailer CompUSA will shut its doors after 23 years and will sell or close its 103 stores after the U.S. holidays.

People who use computers buy parts for computers on the web which they access through computers.

And for first time buyers of computers, or novice users -- they can get just as good deals or better from Circuit City, Best Buy or Walmart.

I really liked CompUSA, as they had some products which Best Buy didn't have or Circuit City. It was like a combination of Best Buy, Circuit City, and Office Max, or Office Depot. I enjoyed shopping there, hate to see them go, but that is how the free market works.

Thank God I live within 10 miles of 2 Fry's Electronics, the real answer to retail computing stores.

Shame ... seems the wrong computer store is going out of business. It should have been circuit City for the way their management handled the firing of 3400 senior employees so they could hire others(or rehire them) at lower wages.

Posted by donnerboy

I guess if you owned the business you would pay everyone as much as they wanted.

The price was always high, and the convenience wasn't really there, since they never had what I needed.

It almost always made more sense to buy the parts on-line, even when they did have it. Never once did they have the ink or toner I needed, while the Office Depot place next door always did.

They always seemed to have a lot of useless crap, though. Apparently, if there was ever a container-load of useless garbage that nobody wanted, CompUSA was there to make a bid on it.

I only wish there had been a Fry's in Fresno. Now that store carries EVERYTHING, and then some. Right down to oscilloscopes.

Maybe Fry's can grab up some of those store-fronts? Well, probably not. They seem to be more conservative about opening new stores, and usually look for rock-bottom distressed real-estate bargains to open their stores in, not trendy strip malls. Any huge old building in the middle of nowhere with a few hundred acres of parking lot around it.

There were two Comp USAs near me. Both used to piss me off with pushy sales persons. As a result, I hated to go there.

Posted by Ray at 2007-12-08 02:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

I had one right by me as well and I wish I had your problem. I could never find anyone to help me in that place and the ones that I could find seemed to take pride in saying "I don't know".

I can't recall knowing anybody who actually likes Fry's, and here there are two on this thread.

I swear sniper...It doesn't even matter if your "snipe" makes any sense...all you do is take the contrarian point of view to make yourself look like an ass.

What a pathetic little hellhole of negativity you must dwell in.

I really pity you.

This is case where the owner left running the business to people he didn't know. Those people hired friends and made them District Managers that had not experience and kept draining the company. The strore ha a lot of potential and it'semployees really did care, but all the money to help them was taken away by District Managers who were onl trying to look good short term and milk the company. The company was raped and pillaged

Unfortunately my brother-in-law works there... I love him and my sister a lot, but I'm really hoping this doesn't come down to mooching...

Nice attitude

Not to worry there is always work for retail people, and any with experiance will find a job in no time flat. Plus there is unemployment.

Too bad....I never heard of them......

I can't recall knowing anybody who actually likes Fry's, and here there are two on this thread.

POSTED BY TEDBAXTER AT 2007-12-08 10:00 PM

It's not so much an issue of 'liking' Fry's, it's 'liking' the fact that no matter what it is that you're looking for, if you truly need it, you KNOW that if you walk into a Fry's, it's likely that you'll be walking out with what you need, be it a spindle of blank DVD's, a replacement power-supply for your PC or a new big-screen HDTV. And while you're waiting to check-out, you can always pickup some beef jerky and a cold bottle of Coke Zero.

But for a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience, you don't want to miss shopping at least one day-after Thanksgiving Day sale. Last year the fire-marshal was there (don't know about this year as I was in Singapore on Thanksgiving) and it was so crowded that they wouldn't let anyone in until another shopper had left the store.

OCU

"Nice attitude"

I know... I'm a bit of an asshole. But I have a fair excuse. I'm pretty fresh out of college and I'm still recovering from my own debt. If I have to help my family out, I'll be more than willing to do it, but it's tough to help broke people out when you yourself are pretty damn near broke.

The asshole in me will really miss the sweet family discounts I used to get... I still need a new stick of RAM and a new audio card, too... Damn you WalMart shoppers and your love of cheap Chinese slave made horse shit...

Does anyone know if the going out of business sale has started yet? I was just on CompUSA's web site, and they act as if everythings normal.

Well I will give you the discounts pretty much rocked. Especialy on cables, I used to buy new cables rather than take the time to find the old one. I mean 2.50 for a 25ft network cable? Speaker cables for $1.20 wow!

There won't be a going out of buisness sale till the last couple days and by then there won't be anything worth buying left. At least thats how they did it when they shut down the local store back in May.