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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. [2][3] After multiple purchases and a successful run on ...
The closing locations were chosen based upon their overall performance, profitability, and proximity to competitors such as Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, and Circuit City. This first round of closings reduced the number of stores to less than half of its previous number.
TigerDirect. TigerDirect was an El Segundo, California -based online retailer dealing in electronics, computers, and computer components. The company was previously owned by Systemax, which is known for its acquisitions of the intellectual property of the defunct U.S. retail chains Circuit City and CompUSA and relaunching them as online retailers.
Circuit City – filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and liquidated on March 8, 2009; [83] [84] [85] reopened online through Tiger Direct in April 2009; closed again in late December 2012; intellectual property was sold again to Circuit City Corp. in January 2016, which plans to open an online operation and retail stores
Circuit City was later closed and replaced with Ultimate Electronics in 2010, although the chain soon went out of business the following year. [6] Steve & Barry's became Jo-Ann Fabrics that same year. [7] In 2013, the mall was sold once again, this time to California-based Vintage Real Estate for an undisclosed price. [8]
Steinbach closed its store in 1999 as part of the company's bankruptcy. Sage-Allen, which closed in Fall 1992 and remained vacant for almost 7 years, [citation needed] became The Bon-Ton in 1999, [14] with a second Bon-Ton and Circuit City splitting the former Steinbach. Circuit City liquidated and closed in 2009.
Parent. InterTAN (1986–2004) Circuit City (2004–2009) BCE Inc. (2009–2024) Website. thesource.ca. The Source (Bell) Electronics Inc., doing business as The Source (French: La Source), was a Canadian consumer electronics and cell phone retail chain. The chain has been present for more than 50 years in Canada, initially as Radio Shack and ...
Richard L. "Rick" Sharp (April 12, 1947 – June 24, 2014) was an American business and retail executive who served as the CEO of Circuit City, a former consumer electronics retail chain, from 1986 to 2000. In 1993, Sharp co-founded CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the United States, which grew to more than 135 locations with revenue of ...