While it is sad to see people lose their jobs it does not surprise me to see CompUSA going out of business. I live near Charlotte, NC and we have two of these store. The only reason I go there is I sometimes need items right now and can not wait for a shipment from an online retailer. I really loath our local stores. Most of the time you cannot find anyone to help find what you are looking for and when you do they usually don't know what they are talking about, have a bad attitude, or think they know what they are talking about and want to argue with the customers. Just for laughs sometimes I stand near the repair area and listen to the "customer service" folks tell customers about what needed to be fixed and usually they were way off. I have also tragically heard them tell more than one customer that all their personal data had been lost in the process of moving it to a new hard drive or new machine. With the lack of service, caring, and knowledge it is no wonder that they are closing. It is too bad too because the one nice thing about having a store like this around was the ability to get items on the spur of the minute and most of what I bought there no other store in my area carries. This will have an big impact on how I go about getting last minute supplies. My hope is that someone else will take the bull by the horns and create a smarter better run version of a computer retail chain where us last minute computer nerds and get our fix.
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