* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores
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>| The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the
>| holidays to get rid of inventory.
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> http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/07/technology/compusa.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007120719
"Dallas-based CompUSA has struggled for nearly a decade with falling
prices on personal computers, its most important product, and
competition from big-box retailers such as Best Buy (Charts, Fortune
500)."
Slim margins for hardware, fat margins for the operating system, kinda
tells the whole story there.
> Joe Wilcox said that Vista just wouldn't sell. It's not just CompUSA (more
> examples below). Microsoft stuffed the channel and killed it for vanity
> figures.
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Tux rox!
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