Ever since the crap customer service I received from a CompUSA store near me, I could give a rats ass about them.

They sell overpriced outdated merchandise (e.g. 2 year old video cards) and their selection is pretty damn abysmal.

Newegg for the win!

I think brick and mortar stores are very important...but most of the decent ones are the small computer shops rather than the retail giants.

The biggest problem I have with the brick and mortar stores is lack of selection. Granted I get an idea about what I want to buy (be it a digital camera, monitor, laptop etc.) from the internet and then want to go to a store to see it - if they even have it. I'm obviously the worst case since if they even have the item I then go price hunting online and by it from NewEgg or some other place. More and more they just don't have what I'm interested in so it's moot anyway.

The day after thanksgiving sales have been fun.. there's something about standing the cold for ages and jostling with people to save a few $$$ ... lol .. maybe I'm just nuts like that.

Your seeing and end to an era. Brick & mortar stores are not reacting to the purchasing power of the internet. The Web is like what the Sear's catolog was in the previous century. Bad management, YES. A failure to adapt to the internet age!

Look for more to follow like Radio Shack, PC Club, Circuit City, Best Buy with mergers delaying the inevitable. Some customers will have the need to see and touch big ticket items, but not computer components.

A PC-only store really can't survive. The last time I went to CompostUSA here in Newport News, it looked more like Circuit City than anything else. A HUGE home theater section was up in the rear of the store. There's more profit in home theater than in computers.

Compusa has never been a computer only store. The problem is people simply have what they want and are waitig longer to get other things.

This happens every x years everyone with money has what they realy want and or is waiting a good while before gojng after it and sales slump to hell. Its happening now it happened in the early90s in the 80s in the 70s too.

they were good for the rebates in the '90's. thats about it.

Woo hoo!! Going out of business sales FTW! I have no love loss for CompUSA. I've never had any love for them in the first place. Every time (atleast 5 times) I've been in the one here I've left either extremely angry at the boobs employed there, or disappointed in the terrible markup on everything. I guess I'm just spoilt on newegg and ZZF.

Good riddance to fantastically overpriced cables of any type and general over pricing on everything else.

Brick and mortars don't suck. There used to be a nice PC store owned by an elderly fellow, prices and service were excellent as was the selection...that is until he retired and sold the operation to to a couple of bidness people that flew the store into bankruptcy within a year.

woohoo! down with the evil.

maybe if they actually employed anyone who knew anything or gave a crap they'd be doing better . . .

I recently visit a Circuit City and then a Best Buy one after the other looking for a cheap hard drive. The cheapest I found was an 80-Gig for something close to $100. So Newegg to the rescue of course where I got an 80-Gig for $42.

Brick and mortars - good riddance.

Thats business. You have to change or be changed.

They shut one down by me a few months ago. They did have some ok store closing deals.