Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC)

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    billddrummer
    Jul 07 02:52 PM
    Who Can Buy Circuit City AND Successfully Turn It Around? [view article]
    CC would be better off 50% smaller, with boutique stores catering to higher end shoppers. Let BBY be the big box CE retailer, while CC services the specialty side of the business.

    Trouble is, with the damage the brand has sustained over the past 3 years, who will believe it without wholesale management changes, not only at the top, but at the store manager level? Unless the company installs store GMs that understand the psyche of the affluent shopper, that proposal will fail too.

    What's clear is that the current operating platform isn't working at all, despite the compost spewed by upper management.     Reply
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    galewhitaker
    Jul 05 10:44 PM
    My Website
    Expecting a Lift for Pediatrix: Cramer's Mad Money (7/3/08) [view article]
    I have made a fortune betting against Cramer. He seems to have a photographic memory but no real logic or inspiration. I don't think he has read King Hubbert's treatise on peak oil. If he has read it he is not a believer. I think the name of his "stop trading" program is prophetic. Reply
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    icahnoclasti
    c
    Jul 05 02:16 PM
    Blockbuster Drops Circuit City Bid: So Toxic that Nobody Wants It? [view article]
    Thanks for the complete lack of analysis and for wasting 3 minutes of my life. If you have anything substantive to say, please do so, otherwise you're just speculating and really adding nothing to the discussion. Reply
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    Peter Lynch
    Jul 04 10:22 AM
    The Circuit City Train Wreck: Kudos to Blockbuster for Walking Away [view article]
    >>>At this point, there is really nothing else to say on the subject.<<<

    But you kept going, going and going:)

    It is good to see so many CC haters out here....time will tell.     Reply
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    abc2cba
    Jul 03 05:29 PM
    Who Can Buy Circuit City AND Successfully Turn It Around? [view article]
    CC needs to get rid of Schoonover, just wait when whatever ends up happening with CC, Schoo will run back where he came from - BB, sent from there to destroy CC over the past 7 years.

    Service is great there, and what are you talking about samknight?
    fire dog makes much more sense than greeksquab, that was proven time and time again that are driven by only one thing and that is how to explain the customer to bend over really slowly just to stick them with bs the majority don't even know what they are talking about. GS staff is taught to deal with people with verbatim lingo - it is broken, you will need a new one or for $$$ we will "fix" it - for a day or two.

    If you ask me, if CC shuts down put big european like night clubs in the place, I am not talking about strip joints, but disco like night clubs.

    That's all... for now.
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    Sad to see
    Jul 03 11:10 AM
    Who Can Buy Circuit City AND Successfully Turn It Around? [view article]
    I agree with the Branding issue and CC has been struggling with it for the last 8 years since everything changed with their selling model. They have consistently tried to become like Best Buy over the last few years including executives, store management, and product line. Becoming Best Buy Jr will not work.

    I have thought about a Target buy out for years. Everytime I go into one, the color scheme and design reminds me of a CC and I could easily see the electroncis department at Target branded with the CC logo (assuming that still means anything). Many CC stores could be closed down and Target would benefit from the CC Website ( one area that CC destroys BB), Firedog Install service (other posters one bad experience not withstanding), and training programs (product knowledge more so than the customer service)

    The CC stores left open with the Target name (something like Circuit City by Target or the new format CC is working on, The City by Target) would benefit by branding, access to better products and vendors, merchandising, management, and overall more pleasing stores to shop in. In my estimation, this would allow Target to compete vs BB although not really hurt BB, and further distinguish themselves as an alternative to Walmart (who is in the middle of rebranding to become more like Target) At the price of the stock, Target has very little downside.     Reply
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    Sumknight194
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    Jul 03 08:15 AM
    Who Can Buy Circuit City AND Successfully Turn It Around? [view article]
    Perhaps the CC real estate should be taken by MotorbikeMax, utilizing the concept of CarMax. With the economy crashing almost as fast as the dollar, Dow in bear market, jobs being cut, and fuel at $4.00, no one can afford an economical Japenese car. They have raised the prices on their Hondas and Toyotas several times this 2008 model year. I suppose that "if you want economy, its gonna cost ya", as a toyota salesman once told me.

    Anyway, CC cannot compete with BB. Not today, not in a year. BB cuts them off at the high end with knowledgable store staff. CC's Firedog service is a joke. They installed a wireless system for my wife. After replacing wireless devices that were already there, they finally got it to work...one day. A gentleman from our IT department put the old equipment back on and the sytem works forever.

    While BB cuts them off at the high end, Walmart destroys them at the low end. The CC model of "no knowledge" service is identical to W,- with triple the prices.

    I see no hope for them, unless they can ....hmmm...I'd get my 2 bucks while its there.

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    mgv11
    Jul 03 07:44 AM
    Who Can Buy Circuit City AND Successfully Turn It Around? [view article]
    I think the branding and experience are right on, the stores have committed so much space to TV's everything else is simply a Wal-Mart arrangement, rows of stuff. Reply
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    ponchovilla
    Jul 03 06:03 AM
    The Circuit City Train Wreck: Kudos to Blockbuster for Walking Away [view article]
    When this was in play I postulated that CC + BBI = HAHA. There are much better ways of investing than playing Russian Roulette with 5 bullets in the chamber ... unless you have a death wish. Reply
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    Tom B
    Jul 02 12:49 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan,"

    Where's Khan now? Wasn't he on house arrest and then inexplicably released instead of executed?     Reply
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    RightinSanFr
    ancisco
    Jul 02 12:13 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    This Israel / Iran situation is the most dangerous of the past several years. In addition to the Reuters article:
    - The Olmert government has major problems, has recently received little complaint for taking out a nuclear site in Syria,and may need to have elections by the end of the year;
    - The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan, and apparently in North Korea, not to mention the elimination of a threat in Iraq. Only Iran remains.
    - Despite Obama's "tell them whatever they want to hear" speech to AIPAC, the Israelis are very concerned about his commitment to meet with Ahmedinejad without preconditions.
    A dangerous soup indeed.     Reply
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    Tom B
    Jul 02 09:13 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    "Sources say Microsoft (MSFT) has talked with both Time Warner (TWX) and News Corp. (NWS) about joining it in a deal that would see Microsoft buy Yahoo's (YHOO) search business, while one of them would combine forces with what remained of Yahoo."

    This works for me, as a Yahoo CUSTOMER. Yahoo search-- who cares? I DID care about MSFT acquiring Yahoo Mail and Flickr, because those services would certainly suffer under the direction of Ballmer and his nitwits (witness how MSFT destroyed HoTMaiL).

    "But lawyers said that the kind of legal requests being issued by the Justice Department in this case - "civil investigative demands" - are not routine."

    It will be routine; there are no credible antitrust issues here. MSFT bribed a few buddies in Washington, no doubt, to raise a ruckus, the the current, corrupt administration gets its walking papers on 1/20/09.

    "Massive downsizing at Starbucks." What took so long? Downscale Dunkin Donuts makes better coffee, at half the price. Starbucks has always brewed way too dark.

    "Blockbuster (BBI) officially withdrew its offer to buy Circuit City Stores (CC)" Tying to "loser" companies together is rarely a recipe for success. Time Warner/AOL. MSFT/Yahoo, had it gone through.

    "Ford said June sales were limited due to tight supplies of small cars."
    Gee, they could have planned for this, say, 15 years ago when I took my first trip to Europe and was amazed by all the really cool FUEL EFFICIENT cars you could buy. In the States, you had little choice then but monstrous SUV's. I had a Corolla then-- and excellent car-- but not as efficient as many of the models I saw in Europe.

    "Senior Pentagon officials say there is an increasing likelihood Israel will attack Iran,". Perhaps you differ in this, Eli, but I'd rather have you guys do it than us.

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    atauber
    Jul 02 09:06 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    trucker please close the bathroom it....................... Reply
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    User 178663
    Jul 02 09:06 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    You are ignorant. Reply
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    User 217072
    Jun 26 12:25 PM
    Circuit City: Simply Appalling [view article]
    I work at CC and I have seen almost all of these things happen that people mention, probably one of the main reasons is the mass layoffs they did about a year ago. Circuit City was once a great store but now they could care less about their employees by allowing people to quit left and right with no questions ask and giving extremely low raises to great associates. I have personally built an amazing relationship with my customers, on a non commission salary, and I am constantly asked for by name and yet when the option for me to become a manager came up I was told to make sure my numbers were good... are you kidding me? One I have been in the top three since I've been there and I know much more about my department than any of the managers there. This will most certainly cause me to quit and many others. Reply

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