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About time. They've been thrashing around long enough and the store near me is already in shambles as employees have apparently stopped caring.

But it's a reminder that a struggling company isn't always going to get bought out. Circuit City simply couldn't compete with Best Buy, and they're both being increasingly squeezed by Wal-Mart and Target.

Circuit City will remind Best Buy that it's perch isn't safe.

One thing that jumped out at me is that Best Buy is not a "tech" name, so they could in theory (I'm not necessarily saying they should, only that they could) have a rebirth as a Target, Walmart, K-mart competitor.




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