My local CompUSA in Corpus Christi was originally a Computer City before CompUSA bought the whole chain from Tandy. Compared to CompUSA, Computer City was horrilbly mismanaged by Tandy. They had a philosophy of buying large quantities of items and letting them sit on the shelves for years at their original prices. I remember them buying a wall of double speed CD-ROM drives that must have sat there for three years as much higher performance CD-ROM drives became available at a fraction of the price Tandy wanted to charge. It’s a bit like getting economies of scale by buying car loads of ripe bananas. Any economies of scale were wiped out by the perishable nature of the goods as they sat on the shelves and became obsolete.