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    Image of EBone EBone
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Does the "2.0" also mean they will be hiring decent salespeople instead of the walking dead like at the old "1.0" CompUSA?
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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Given that internet access is becoming so commonplace it's practically a personal accessory, why not enhance the buying experience by offering customers juice boxes, or free beta fish in little tanks of water?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Instead of "2.0", why not just go with "not fucked-up"? I'd say that the latter has a great deal more meaning, since 2.0 can still be good-for-nothing.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Can I please ban the use of "2.0" for things that don't actually have version numbers? I feel like I'm reading a press release from 2002.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/10/09

    @OCEntertainment: But, I was just about to release Twitter 2.0 next week. Only, instead of typing, it would allow you to talk... One sentence at a time.
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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    I would imagine that they will be buying locations (Old larger Circuit City locations?) that can also serve as a shipping warehouse/store near key shipping hubs (Ala transmodal hubs, etc.)
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    i hope they creat their own fake internet that will advise customers to purchase everything at compusa. i can't wake to see their fake gizmodo
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Sorry guys, Best Buy was piloting this crap in a few of its stores back in the mid/late 90's using Kiosks. Apple's example, and now Tiger Direct's (I refuse to call them CompUSA) is merely an evolution of it, and it's hardly groundbreaking.
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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    Retail 2.0 = jackasses running through CompUSA putting midget porn on all the screens
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    04/10/09

    @pretty pretty pony: You call them jackasses, I call them me.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/10/09

    @badhatharry: Wow, I call them you as well! What a coincidence.


    Look at those badhatharries over there putting midget porn on the screens!

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    04/10/09

    @Lite: Cycle now entering the game grid: Thank you. I trained them myself (wipes tear away).
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    Image of Jstick Jstick
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    my local apple store banned social networking sites from being used at their store.... looks like that idea backfired!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/10/09

    @Jstick: You mean so that people actually interested in shopping could get to the machines? Oh noes!
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    Image of Alduron Alduron
    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    *sigh* Why can't they just die already? This is almost as bad as Share's 10th good bye tour.
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    04/10/09

    @Alduron: lol. Cher*
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    04/10/09

    @shorty6049: beat me too it, was about to correct @Alduron.
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    Image of fodder650 fodder650
    04/10/09

    @wasting_company_time: What it wasnt Sunny and Share?


    What was I watching as a kid. Maybe to many repeats of Pink Lady and Jeff

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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    04/10/09

    @fodder650: I was a bigger fan of Catten and The Neil
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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    I somehow think this is going to be backwards compatible with 1.0 and most managers and pencil pushers will strive for failure, like they have in the past.


    /by failure I mean pushing warranties, awful markups, and poorly trained staff

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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    knowing them they will screw this up and because it's all PC's a virus is going to get downloaded somehow and it will infect the entire network. Yay!
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    04/10/09

    @dimsum4u: they sell macs too,
    oh and shut up troll
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    04/10/09

    @shorty6049: @Zac Shipley: He does kind of have a point. Retail 2.0 (that is fucking lame) is most likely going to use PCs because they are cheaper, and you're going to get a ton of douchebags who are going to look for viruses to infect the system with just so they can mess things up.
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    04/10/09

    In reply to CompUSA Re-Opening With 30 New Stores, Invents "Retail 2.0"
    So I can go to a store to buy something online, as opposed to staying at home and buying something online? Wow! That is convenient!
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    03/09/09

    In reply to The Best Email I Got Today
    ok, so our old competitor has this great exec that ran the company into the ground...let's hire her...she MUST have been on our side already...right?
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    Image of Biochemlab Biochemlab
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Best Email I Got Today
    Job Posting:


    Failed Retail Electronics Giant, CompUSA (now known as www.CompUSA.com), is hiring for Vice President of Business Development.


    Required Experience:

    Must Have Executive Experience Running Another Retail Electronics Giant into the Ground

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    03/10/09

    @Biochemlab: That's a little unfair. Companies fail for a number of reasons, and you generally can't really blame it on one person or another. CC's failure isn't like that of some banks, and it wasn't a scandal caused by any one person or policy like some other notable failures.


    Good people work at companies that fail, and they deserve to keep working, not tarred and feathered just because they worked someplace that didn't succeed.

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    03/10/09

    @weatherman: True, but in this case, it was the gross mismanagement of company policy that directly led to the downfall of CC. The flagging economy was just like putting rocket-skates on the toboggan.


    This guy was one of the head dudes. Fail.

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    03/11/09

    @DeusExMach: "This guy" who was one of the "head dudes" is actually a woman. Hard to take your argument seriously when you fail to get even the most basic facts right.
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