All Circuit City stores closing permanently on March 8th

To an icon in the consumer electronics retail space, we wave goodbye. And for the hordes of employees already / soon to be looking for new uniforms elsewhere, we empathize. Circuit City has just announced that on March 8th, all of its stores will lock up for the last time. Granted, some locations have already shut their doors in permanent fashion due to stock depletion, but regardless of leftover wares, March 8th is the end of the line for the laggards. We'd say you might want to stop by your local outlet to catch any last-last-minute sales, but even at a penny, you're not going to want that open-box 4MB SD card.

[Via HotHardware, image courtesy of wbeebe]

[Zunavio @ Mar 6th 2009 5:01AM]

Huh???

[OneLove @ Mar 6th 2009 10:55AM]

Good Riddance to those rude-ass fake 30% sale A-Holes!! Eat your left over crap!

[Mike @ Mar 6th 2009 2:27PM]

Circuit Schitty deserves its fate. I don't feel sorry for them in the least bit. I'm glad management lost their jobs. I am so happy to see them wiped off the face of the earth that I broke my wrist waving good bye.

[Hexachrome @ Mar 7th 2009 1:34AM]

I agree, they were always A**HOLES!

[Aaron @ Mar 7th 2009 9:14PM]

I just went to Circuit Sh-tty in Wichita Falls, Texas, and found some great deals. I got a Sony camera bag, an 8GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, some Sony in-ear noise canceling headphones, a remote for my PS3, and some other stuff and paid just over $100 for it all. Not bad considering the headphones themselves retail at $100.

No, I'm really NOT that much of a Sony fanboi... really... okay, maybe a little.

[brie @ Mar 6th 2009 5:06AM]

4MB SD card? No wonder they are going out of business......

[Jason @ Mar 6th 2009 8:31AM]

THERE COULD BE 2 JPG'S WORTH OF PORN ON IT!?!?!?!?!!!!!

[FILA @ Mar 6th 2009 11:35PM]

ooooo shit, what store that in, i needs my extra porn

[epicelite @ Mar 6th 2009 5:09AM]

There were 4MB SD cards?

[cmdr_k33n @ Mar 6th 2009 11:29AM]

I remember 8mb SD cards that would come with digital cameras so you could at least use it out of the box. There could have been 4mb cards before that.

[stephen @ Mar 6th 2009 5:19AM]

well they're original products were 20% overpriced anyway, so really it's like a 10% mark down, which other company's are beating easily with their original fair pricing and a 15% mark down their giving now, circuit city started as a beautiful baby and turned in to an old blowharding asshole, glad mr. circuit is finally committing suicide

[George @ Mar 6th 2009 7:20AM]

A 30% markdown on 20% overpriced goods is 16% less than 'normal' price.

[Flashpoint @ Mar 6th 2009 8:12AM]

I disagree entirely. Circuit City has been the better store to shop at if you compare it to J&R or Best Buy.
Walmart beats everybody on prices and so does shopping online - but to say Circuit City always overcharged is flat wrong.

I worked in Circuit City back in 2001-2003 and I worked in BBY 2003 - 2005 while I was in College/Grad school. Circuit City ALWAYS had better deals - and if they were beat by other stores nearby, they'd offer you a price match. BBY always tried to beat people over the head...especially with their Insignia bullshit where they regularly marked up 300%.

The reason CC couldn't compete was #1, the credit crisis causing people to cut back and #2 they only made big profits on their City advantage plans. Firedog service was too much and people ignored it. Their repair center was unorganized. Their team system lagged behind BBY's who lagged behind Walmart.

BBY and Walmart were destined to kill this store off. Just like CC and BBY did to the Wiz and a number of other electronics chains.

[Darrell @ Mar 6th 2009 9:28AM]

Flashpoint have you ever actually been to J&R, because no way you could compare Circuit City and J&R and say that J&R is worse.

[OneLove @ Mar 6th 2009 10:58AM]

I never jump on the "Flashpoint Beatdown" bandwagon, but dude are you serious? CC better?

[Flashpoint @ Mar 6th 2009 11:16AM]

CC isn't better than online shopping, but it had better prices on most items than BBY.

It depends what you are shopping for but I've done THOROUGH comparisons using inventory price lists.

I know how much they add on to items and I know how much employee discounts people get.

[Electromodo @ Mar 6th 2009 2:04PM]

I agree with Flashpoint that CC had better deals than BB. That's the only thing I agree with him. ;)

And about this supersale... there was nothing worth buying there on the second day of liquidation already. Hungry crowds swept everything good from shelves on the first day of liquidation... How ironic...

[Alex Chopra @ Mar 6th 2009 5:19AM]

Why would someone want a 4MB SD card..... What use would that be?

[cwj @ Mar 6th 2009 6:47AM]

That was probably the point..?

[blackfeathers @ Mar 6th 2009 5:22AM]

i think there probably were 4mb mmc cards at one time, not sd cards... unless the 4mb sd cards were actually defective & the author was referring to the working portion of said card.

[stephen @ Mar 6th 2009 5:25AM]

hey the 5 or 6 dumshits talking bout the 4mb sd cards IT WAS A JOKE

[cwckw4 @ Mar 6th 2009 5:31AM]

then that's a cruel joke because if i saw a 4mb sd card at a store, i would buy it just to tell people i have it. and a penny? that's just a steal

[rickardo @ Mar 6th 2009 7:22AM]

I have a 16MB SD card from my first digital camera in 2004. Even at only 3.2 megapixels, I could only fit 12 or so photos on it.

[Jake Tobak @ Mar 6th 2009 9:59AM]

My formula for a good deal on flash memory is usually about $2/gig. So a 16GB flash drive would be a good deal around $32. idk if the number should go up or down with SD cards, but at $2 a gig, a 4mb SD card would be worth about .78 cents. So I wouldn't call it a steal. Maybe not a horrible deal, but not amazing.

[George Kirkaldie @ Mar 6th 2009 10:08AM]

so, less than 1 cent.. guess the article was right.

[George Kirkaldie @ Mar 6th 2009 10:13AM]

Also The Source by Circuit City is closing as well, but that won't be until at least 2010.

[Jason @ Mar 6th 2009 8:46PM]

@ George

The Source By Circuit City is not closing, it is open for business, and is being bought by Bell Canada later on this year...

[Jeremy S @ Mar 6th 2009 5:32AM]

I'd frame it on my wall.

[Jonny @ Mar 6th 2009 5:37AM]

It really sucks. D:

A lot of us lost our jobs. I loved how many people have been pouring into our store, buying hoards of shit thinking they're getting a good deal when they're getting ripped off immensely, but thats what they get for not shopping with us before liquidation.

Corporate shoulda done some of those fake liquidation sales the furniture stores do a lot.

[Uncontrol @ Mar 6th 2009 5:44AM]

Sorry to hear you lost your job, but at the same time it's hard to feel bad when they're a bad company. Ah, the conflicting feelings watching a company you both work for and dislike facing hard times ...

[Pepsipoint @ Mar 7th 2009 9:44AM]

No , it's easy to feel bad for joe smoe employee who's now unemployed at CC. Has nothing to do with the corporate buttsmucks who ran the company into the ground.

[frostymoon @ Mar 6th 2009 5:38AM]

I'm kind glad and sad to see them go....

Before they screwed me over by allowing someone to use my credit card with out permission and not crediting or forcing the item to be returned, I use to spend lots of money there!

I really waned to purchase one of their Fire Dog or even a Circuit City Van's to drive around in! Yeah....I like to collect odd things!

I am a bit pissed though... last purchase my wife and I made the other day, was a 8 MP camera that appeared to be NIB but once we got home, I noticed there was no charger, battery, cables, or even instructions! Bastards!!! Anyhow, there was lot's more deals we did get on stuff we did not even need! Over all, we did spend over $3000 in video games, blu ray movies, and other mixed electronics. Yeah, I suppose the deals were not THAT great but I did make sure I was coming out better than shopping online for the same items!

If anyone's looking for strategy guides for console games, they might still have some going for 50 cents!

[AMiSH PiRATE @ Mar 6th 2009 10:17AM]

that's just wasteful spending in a shitty economy. you could have spent that money on a business that needed it and still come out ahead. people like you are a good argument against capitalism.

[Tom @ Mar 6th 2009 7:26PM]

you might be able to get a charger on ebay for cheep. as or the manual try looking for a pdf version online, or here: http://www.butkus.org/chinon/
as for the circuit city/ firedog van. that would be kick-ass

[Erwos @ Mar 6th 2009 6:09AM]

I got a G15 v1 (which is the version I wanted!) on the cheap and a dirt-cheap HDMI extender ($6) the other day from them. So, there still might be a device or two worth buying. Depressing place to shop at, though.

[ncmach1 @ Mar 6th 2009 6:17AM]

Their not closing fast enough, The nstore here in Asheville, NC is awfull since the day they quit paying them commission.

[Lombardi @ Mar 6th 2009 6:42AM]

I suppose they get what they deserved....

To the people who lost your job: Search for work in basic products companies, like food, toilet paper, gasoline, power, gas, and regular cloths... things you can´t go by without...

[Jake Tobak @ Mar 6th 2009 10:03AM]

*They're
**enough.
***store
****awful
You're welcome.

[sgt_easton @ Mar 6th 2009 10:56AM]

Maybe you should stop reading Engadget constantly and instead take a course in writing/speaking English.

[neoimp @ Mar 6th 2009 6:59AM]

I went to CC and they had awesome sales like this...
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6418/ccsalelol.jpg
Good riddance.

[TentosToys @ Mar 6th 2009 12:59PM]

Seriously - I went to a CC a couple weeks ago and they had a used PS3 version of COD world at war for around $55 and then on the rack across the aisle they had it new for $49. That and the usb cables for printers were still $39.99.

[s_yarter @ Mar 7th 2009 11:42AM]

Just a heads up the price in the picture is for a 1TB Simple Tech drive, not the 160GB Western Digital someone put above it.

[bagbozo @ Mar 6th 2009 7:42AM]

Circuit City of all businesses, who's next Best Buy.

[Ghen @ Mar 6th 2009 2:08PM]

best buy will hold out for at least 8-10 more years as internet sales get a foothold. the original estimate was 2015 for computer related stores, but the economy actually hurt that as people become less trusting of internet business when they have less money.

[mabhatter @ Mar 8th 2009 1:36AM]

the market is cyclical. Now that Best Buy has the market to itself, they will raise prices back to MSRP+. Then they'll expand and grow management and become fat and inefficent. When the economy picks up, another small chain of lean and mean shops will grow up and people will flock to them, just like we used to flock to ABC Warehouse, or Highland, or Curtis Mathis...

It's a cycle companies expand and make excessive risks during good times and get killed off during bad ones.

[fucter @ Mar 6th 2009 7:46AM]

What would happen if I stole from there. It's not like anyone is going to get a promotion for catching me.

[Matthew Harrington @ Mar 6th 2009 8:06AM]

I went to two stores yesterday. The best deal were the DA boxes they use for their HD TV displays. They had them for $60 a piece, and I'm pretty sure they are usually at about $300 new.

[Eric @ Mar 6th 2009 8:28AM]

$25 at the store I checked last week.

I also picked up a seldom, if ever, used Fluke meter for $75 and a few tools 5/$5.

[ECJ @ Mar 6th 2009 8:14AM]

I've been hovering around the local CC here. Picked up Oceans Eleven Blu-Ray box set for $21, and 2x Lexar 8GB 300x UMDA Compact Flash cards for $50.

[TareX @ Mar 6th 2009 8:18AM]

30% off my @$$...

Everything is still overpriced. I googled it while inside the store last week.