What Next for Circuit City, Blockbuster, Linens -N- Things?

You’re not buying enough bedding, kitchen utensils, or other household knickknacks, apparently, because Linens -N- Things is about to declare bankruptcy.  A restructuring firm has been hired already.  Go here to if you want to read a dull article full of lots of numbers and not enough straightforward talk about why this might be happening.
And Blockbuster [...]

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“Multi-Channel Shopping” (Circuit City’s $1 billion online business)

 I know, I know.  Circuit City?  $1 billion in online sales in a year?  Seriously?  Heck yeah, $1.4 billion actually.
It appears congratulations are in order.  Circuit City CEO Philip Schoonover cited a “massive shift” towards “multi-channel shopping” during a speech to the National Retail Federations’ conference in late 2008.
What Schoonover is referring to is something much like [...]

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Finding Stores via 411

I’ll never ever ever dial 411 again thanks to 800-FREE-411, or 800-GOOG-411.  No one deserves to be charged a few bucks just to track down a phone number or address.  This isn’t about GOOG-411, just wanted to throw that plug in there.  This is about which retail stores people are looking for when they use [...]

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Are You Next, Circuit City?

I experienced Black Friday Madness one time, in 2006.  I got out of bed at 4am or so, somewhere found an open Starbucks, and ventured to Circuit City to buy an advertised laptop.  I couldn’t believe what I saw.  A line of hundreds of people drifting past several other large retailers’ (closed, darkened) front doors.  [...]

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