[Dr. Sivana]

That’s going to leave a large void in a lot of small cities. Best Buy and Circuit City don’t cut it for components or sofwtare selection.

[Fairview]

Hm, one is compelled to wonder if there will be any outstanding bargains to be had during the sell-off period. . .

[Michael.SF.]

Good news story of the day.

Looks like my personal boycott worked!

/wishfulthinking

[DB]

Ya, like I’d like to buy computer stuff from a business that’s going to close its doors right after I buy it...

It would have to be discounted pretty significantly to even consider it.

[cynwoody]

CompUSA Acquired by Gordon Brothers Group Affiliate

[austinaero]

BFD. In the Chicago ‘burbs, they were just a retail outlet. None of their salespeople knew anything about the software or hardware products. It was a like a Toys ‘R Us, but you had to know what you wanted BEFORE you went in because the help was, well,,,no help at all.

Just my opinion of course.

[1066AD]

Wow, they lasted about 23yrs. I remember the first one in Dallas/Addison, think it was called SoftWarehouse or something like that.

[djf]

Whoa! Does this mean dirt cheap quad-core machine time?

I just got done upgrading to an Asus dual 370 PIII server.

[mountainbunny]

We have Comp-USA, but I would be thrilled to get Fry’s in its place.
Go Fry’s!
There are only a few other options, because Comp-USA never has what we need and Best Buy has terrible customer service so we never shop there at all.

[mylife]

WWW.newegg.com

[gusopol3]

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu

The Mr. Slim?

[HangnJudge]

Sorry to see this

Here in Knoxville, CompUSA has been
a good electronics retailer

We don’t have Fry’s here
I gotta go to Atlanta to find one...

[i_dont_chat]

I quit going to CompUSA after I discovered MicroCenter here in Houston. They carry almost the same merchandise, but better displayed and better sales service.

[Grimmy]

There’s always New Egg.

[HAL9000]

I think we’ll be okay here when the new Apple Store opens at the Promenade at Chenal. I drove past it the other day, and it’s coming along well. They’ll have a nine-screen IMAX theatre too.

[ShadowDancer]

I’ve been in CompUSA twice and their prices were absurd.

[HAL9000]

The fatal blow may have come yesterday when Dell decided to go with Best Buy for their retail outlet.

[Paleo Conservative]

I remember shopping at Softwarehouse in the mid 1980's at its original location way out on Westheimer in Houston years before they renamed it to CompUSA.

[Doohickey]

Sounds like about time for me to start building a gaming machine!

[SamAdams76]

The CompUSA's up in my area have become absolutely awful over the past few years - just a shadow of their former selves. I will certainly not miss them. From about 1995 to 2003 or so, I was a regular customer. But they cut way back on their software selection and other areas of the store were gutted as well. The floor walkers were absolute morons for the most part, they didn't know anything about what the store sold, which makes me think they were retreads from Radio Shack - another lousy chain of stores.

I pretty much get all my computer stuff online anyhow or at a local independent computer store which is ten times better than any CompUSA.

Another thing I never liked about CompUSA was the thug they stationed at the exit to check your receipts on the way out. All they ever did was look at the receipt and grunt. I doubt they even knew how to read.