Consumerist reports 100 stores (of 229) will close in 2007.
Will Lexington’s CompUSA Store Close in 2007? CompUSA announces restructuring, nearly half of it’s 229 stores. If the Lexington store avoids this it will be lucky. According to the Consumerist, recent chances of cash infusions didn’t pan out. I hope the local store makes it, but this store has always been a customer service disappointment to me. I’ve used it as a “picking warehouse” – looking up stuff online and then going to get it once confirmed in-stock, and if I was pretty sure I’d never return it. They keep a good selection of products however, and has always been good for browsing. The other nice thing is that you didn’t have to shop amidst the blaring car stereos like Best Buy or Circuit City. The bad news is that the Geek Squad will probably be fixing more computers, and that can’t be a good thing.
So many people think CompUSA sucked. GizModo’s comments are rather scathing.
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It’s really just another string of problems for Comp USA. In the early 90’s, you could walk into the store, and it would be HUGE and filled with all sorts of discounts. Only a few years later, the stores that were around typically were moved because they had to reduce the square footage of their stores, as it was simply too expensive.
I think it’s just the general shrinkage of the computer market that is hurting retailers. You can compare that to when a magazine called Computer Shopper was the size of a yellow page phone book, because it had so many ads. Today it’s nothing more than a very thin magazine.