I heard on the radio a couple days ago that CompUSA is going out of business. It’s been sold to a private equity company, and the plan is its stores will be gradually liquidated. This is not the end of the computer retail chain as a fixture in our society. Now there are Apple stores, but they’re really the only ones left. [...]
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The death of the computer chain store
Posted in Analysis, Technology and Software on December 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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