Circuit City pulling out of KCMO and KCK

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

As do I and CoMo chief, quite the contingent.

And Circuit City liquidations are a joke. They actually contract with store liquidators that will jack the prices up, only to reduce them to a 'closeout' price.

When I saw one liquidating in KC earlier this year, they had 'closeout' prices on TVs that were higher than the sale prices at the store in Columbia, which hadn't been contracted out to the liquidators.

These liquidators are shady as hell. I hated CC well before I started seeing this stuff, I've hated them more since.

That's gonna be the standard now that the internet has facilitated the commoditization of inventory. Whereas they used to have to eventually sell everything, now they have the fallback of being able to jobber their remaining inventory to a healthy store. First noticed it when all those hardware stores went OOB in the mid-90s.

Whats ridiculous is those 'display' items that don't get marked down. I stopped by a Linens'n'Things that was a ghost town, down to selling the displays shelves, and they still had a Cuisinart coffee maker at 40% off!!!!!! only it was beat to heck and the lid of the carafe was missing, and the carafe itself had a dent in it. Still over $100.