Abandoned - Circuit City
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2016
- Before the war between Circuit City and Best Buy, Circuit City was the number one electronic store. In only a matter of years, the entire company went under leaving hundreds of stores abandoned.
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My Parents and Grand parents had a Circuit city "Guy" they would go see for his expertise and ability to explain and teach them about consumer electronics... They would drive out of their way to go there instead of a closer electronics store. As soon as commission was gone and their stock became generic stock not Driven by electronic experts on what their customers where looking for... It became redundant.. They offered nothing different then other stores with usually lesser quality or more generic stock instead of the high end good quality products that where curated by a passionate sales staff be fore.
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DootDoot z
I forgot about these guys!! I loved them!!!
Not sure if you have or not (just subbed to the channel) but CompUSA would probably make a cool story too.
How the heck did a Shack for Radios outlive a whole City of Circuits?
Matthew Rider I swear 💯💯
lmfao
Radio Shack was easily the most irritating store I have ever visited.
I hated those m'fers for asking me for my personal info when all I wanted to buy was a battery.
Holy shit.
radio shack was a geek store but the less geek it was plus crappy manegment has it now going down the tube slowly
If you would like some former employee insight: I worked at the Circuit City in Springfield, IL around 2006-2007.
This was when HDMI cables first hit the market along with HDDVD, Blu-ray, PS3, complete with 720p/720i and 1080p/1080i plasma/LCD televisions.
While I was not on commission, we were still expected to have good sales numbers. I was the best of 8 floor employees with closing roughly $20k/ week in direct sales, I was also only 1 of 3 employees that knew how to set up a full entertainment system- such as audio receivers and tvs to 5.1/7.1/9.1 surround setups to several peripherals (game consoles, blu-ray, HDDVD, cable, computer) utilizing RCA, Composite, Component, Monster speaker wire, digital coaxial, optical fiber audio cable, DVI, and HDMI cables. There POS software was some shitty ms-dos proprietary abomination complete with all green lettering...
Despite all this, I was fired on the spot one day. Why? You ask.... because a regional manager was undercover posing as a shopper. Walking around with a random Best Buy brochure. I offered assistance, but he declined. I told him I would be in the area helping other customers if he needed anything.
I was fired because I didn't try to push him for sales.... I was fired for not badgering and annoying a customer until they bought some shit.... That store closed soon after.
Old comment I know, but I have a similar story, just from the customer side. I love car audio and roughly around 2004, I bought a clean 94 mercury tracer LTS sedan. In the trunk was a very nice Kenwood eXcelon head unit but the harness was missing. It was a long day, so I made it to circuit city around 830 pm. I wanted to buy the harness for the Kenwood and hook it up. The employee who helped me was basically told that when his shift was over, to not come back for the Sam reason you were fired. When I went in, he actually pulled the display model Kenwood out, plugged mine in, as well as hooked up the rca cables and let me thoroughly test the unit. Once I saw it worked, he asked me what car I was installing it into so I told him that mercury tracer. He then told me how he was fired, and since it was just about 9 the end of his day he said he'd meet me outside. About 10 after 9, he came out with a plug and play smart harness for a Kenwood to Ford, as well as a set of Kenwood 6.5s, and 5 1/4s for that car. He said "this place screwed me for not pushing sales, so, here. On the house. I ain't selling em to you. Have a good night sir." I did the right thing and threw him a Benjamin for his pocket anyway .
@@williamsinger4124 HA, that comedic gold right at the end, honestly that would be my response too lmao.
@@timothyrogersrailfanning5673 I honestly felt bad for him, I've dealt with him before when I was in there, and he would just show you where what you were looking for was, show you how to use it, and stand back and let you check it out. They scumbagged him for no good reason.
What a dick.
@@williamsinger4124 Whatever happened to that slogan, the customer is
always right? That is what you do to keep customers coming back, right?
You should have wrote the CEO a letter about how the employee went
far and beyond to make your shopping experience a very pleasant one.
Keeping a customer is more important than selling a brand new car
stereo system. It is like options were taken away from the customer,
and the store was not interested in saving customers a few dollars.
I find it perplexing that rules are bent in some cases, but not in other
cases.
Meanwhile Carmax is THRIVING.
Goes to show the side business won't be a side business forever
this did not age well.
Don I don’t understand
@@slump45 they've laid off over 16,000 employees...and counting.
@@Don-qb1vi ...but to be fair, no business expected and readied for the onslaught of the CCP virus...
When Circuit City first opened, it was amazing for the era. Everyone wanted to go there for the car audio equipment and home stereo equipment. No other stores had anything like it.
I miss it so bad :/
Yes I remember that aswell. My parents bought me my first gaming device from there. The Gameboy advance.
Yeah, I think their failure vs Best Buy is Best Buy, from what I understand, changed their store design to be more fun inside. Circuit City tried but I never really had fun in a Circuit City, while Best Buy was fun to just hang out in for 30-40 minutes.
I actually went to the Circuit City featured in the news clip. I bought a television half off when they were closing. Great video!
Fancy seeing you here. Greetings from Glen Burnie!
holy crap it's Dan Bell! lol ^
It's Dan Bell! Small world
It's Dan Bell!
Cool story bro
You forgot one specific thing that Circuit City did, that accelerated their demise, and this was really, really dirty. They took their highest-paid wage people, laid them off, then offered them their jobs back - at starting wage. The people that did accept were extremely jaded and the ones that didn't, were replaced with people that should have been flipping burgers. It was not a good mix of floor employees.
12:00 kinda covers that.
This explains why the customer service - or lack thereof - went to crap towards the end of Circuit City's life.
I would love to get laid off on those grounds, just so I could tell them to fuck themselves when they try to get me re-hired lol.
Sun TV & Electronics was in my city. I'm pretty sure that's where I bought my first 586 and it had a 1 GB hard drive. That kind of capacity was unheard of at that time, lol.
I didn't know about this, but that would be extremely detrimental for customer service.
As far as wages go, Walmart did a similar thing about a year or two ago when it increased the starting wages to equal that of employees who had been with the company for 5 or more years and had only gotten that wage through performance-based raises. Not that this has hurt Walmart, just a similar incident.
3:29 i love that the entranceway is shaped like a plug. that's actually genius
I know, right! It's so iconic! 😀 When I see an abandoned store I always think "that's gotta be a Circuit City there once."
Never noticed it until this video
Yeah I recall the commercials of the plug in the 80’s and early 90’s.
Ours is now a PetSmart and still has the iconic plug facade. Thankfully, they didn't reface the building, just painted over it. @@KevinPlaysGuitar
Hi I’m bleach and I lost on roblox but I am happy. 🎸
This took me back down memory lane. I worked at Circuit City from 1999-2005, so I lived through many of these changes. So many memories.
My Circuit City got turned into a Sports Authority.
When Sports Authority closed, it got turned into Burlington Coat House.
I think Burlington is closing too
Coat factory
Coat house ? 😅😅😅
@@bigbootybryana Lol
same wtf 😂😂😂
The decision to get rid of appliances was a big factor in their decline--they missed out on the housing boom, and thus significant revenue from appliance sales.
Aaaaa, what housing boom is zat, oh yeah, the one that collapsed our economy in 08.
True
To be fair, Circuit City basically died with the housing boom in the 2008 Recession.
@@mikemancini313 It did, but it was already on the decline, and the decision to stop selling appliances (which had previously been one of their most profitable categories, ironically) was part of that. They were also one of the largest sellers of appliances in the country before that, I think in second or third place. Why the heck they decided to kill the goose that laid the golden egg is beyond me.
@@christinewoodruff255 Yes, the housing bubble that burst in 2008 and triggered the recession.
Naming it "The City" was just stupid.
Naming it "musicnerd 72" was stupid.
ঊ eggo. Salt
@@aprilhdunmoyer Like "eggo" is not.... What a fucking moron.
It happened during that brief 2000's period when multiple syllable company names became _passé_ ... Everything became "The _something_" for a little while.
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😂 I never knew Car max and Circuit City were siblings.
So funny
Car Max is booming now.
go to circuitcity.com
Used car sales are booming and with that financing and leasing used cars is largely as well. I would have my job if it were not for more people buying used cars. It also helps that car max makes it very easy to buy a used car with location transfers nonnegotiable prices and warranties. And a very good website too bad Canada dose not have car max or Zillow for that matter
It really is and they sell new cars in some markets. I know the Carmax in Laurel, Maryland, sells new Toyotas--both lots are physically connected and the new cars have "Carmax" plates on them.
I just to live just down the street from there in Jessup. Small world.
But yeah, I've seen a few Carmax dealer blends as well. I've seen Nissan as well.
I know right
Could you possibly look into the fall of Woolworth's as well? Always fascinated by them.
+Larry Bundy Jr Definitely!
*****
Thanks dude, It'll make for a great story, how they split into a US, UK and Australian division too, with the US store turning into Footlocker and the Aussie one turning into a supermarket chain!
lol it looks like you know a lot about it yourself, Larry! Perhaps you could do your own take on it.
Woolworth is alive and well today . Woolworth is now known as Foot Locker!!
0aa
I worked at circuit city for a couple months. The actual store I worked at was in this video on the WBAL clip. Management sucked and the store was about 20 years behind Best Buy. It may have been my worst retail job I ever had.
I remember circuit city had this great policy where if you paid to have your car stereo installed by their technicians and you kept your receipt, if you got a new car, they would transfer it to your new car for free.
We have multiple abandoned Circuit City's in my area and I barely remember when they were open. RIP.
dank memes I have a video of a abandoned circuit city on my channel
where u @ fam
Purchased my Panasonic Palmcorder & dryer at Circuit City in NY.
Omg same here
dank memes There used to be one where I used to live and I remember clearly that it was like abandoned for a good 3 or 4 years before I left the area. It's been like 4 years since then... I wonder if it's still sitting there.
Sidenote: when that particular store closed I got a Legend of Spyro game for really cheap from there for the GameBoy Advance even though the local Target stopped selling GBA games long before lol. I guess that kinda shows how much they didn't sell when they were open :(
The Circuit City stores I remember always had high pressure sales teams bothering me whenever I wanted to buy CDs.
Lmao the only CD I ever bought at Circuit City was a Primus album because it was in the discount bin. Their CD's were always so damn overpriced just like FYE.
So DIVX? I have a video player of them
I know, I was buying some CD from the discount bin, they annoyed me so much.
I went there to buy a tv and couldn't get any help at all.
@@bobohacker5037 the one time you go to buy something and the employees leave you alone 😂
It's fascinating when you step back and look at it.
Technology as a whole has become a massive part of our everyday lives.
Electronics retailers are the best way to see this. They went from unique places were you could buy things that your neighbors might not have, to stores that aren't exactly impressive anymore.
We're used to being surrounded by screens, speakers/stereos, and computers. Technology in general doesn't have that mind-blowing magic that it used to.
It's very interesting when you take a moment to think about it.
They haven't tweeted since late October of 2019. Yeah, the whole relaunch thing wasn't that great.
I have a feeling you’re right
@@BrightSunFilms hello like your videos they are good
@MissX W I quit using twitter ages ago, don't worry
The Source sucks. Need an iPhone accessory for way too much money? They got you. Like cramped, uncomfortably tight aisles? You better believe they got you. Need a bit of cable or wiring that isn't USB or HDMI? Get the Hell out, what do you think this is, a Radio Shack?
MHM
This made me laugh, well done. :D
Watch the 40 year Virgin- nails this corporate Crap to the tee.
This is way too accurate, i'm surprised they're still around tbh
I will never forget Circuit City. It seemed cooler than Best Buy when I would go there.
It had a nice atmosphere. Best Buy can't really compare.
Ravaniscool can't compare but still here...
That commercial with the storefront plugging into the ground is a memory I knew never would be unlocked.
So many big business start to go downhill when they people at the top seem to think they know so much more than the people at the bottom.
Screw the working stiff and eventually screw the company.
Upper management makes money off the back of poor working stiffs.
Corporate greed is destroying America!
Screw the working stiff and eventually screw the company.
Says it all right there.
There's still a huge abandoned Circuit City distribution center in my small Midwest town. Was a big blow to the local communities when the company went bankrupt.
Śūnyatā Advaita Marion
I just have to say... your videos are very professional and extremely well done and informative. Glad I subbed
+Captain Cartman Thanks so much!
I'm with the Captain. You did a fantastic job. :)
Me too.
Because he reads straight of wiki's. He makes money off of plagiarism.
duck video
I worked there for years, & was among the first round of layoffs, which focused on those making the most, i.e., the most senior non-management employees. The company was in the middle of a billion-dollar POS/Inventory computer upgrade/changeover. Alas, a mere few months before the final stage of the computer changeover, the entire executive body died in a plane-crash, destroying the company's best & brightest, it's entire brain-trust, including everyone who was handling the changeover. I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the video, because it was absolutely the beginning of the end. If that plane crash hadn't happened, I believe CC would still be here today. We were all SO optimistic, and business never stopped improving. Before the crash & subsequent chaos, my location was a $65M store, despite being in a small city (population ~100,000). I personally moved $65-85,000 of audio/video equipment PER DAY. After the crash, things immediately started declining. Inventory was a mess, we had half the terminals we needed, because the functional old terminals had been replaced now-useless "new" computers, & the new inventory system had already started being implemented. As I said, it was chaos. The company went from having a billion dollars in liquid assets to bankruptcy in a year and half. It was really tragic, for the families of those who died, and those affected.
That will do it.
During its final years, I had one of the lamest customer service experiences ever. A sales floor guy asked me if I needed any help, and I was halfway through explaining what I needed help with and he walked off to ask another customer if they needed help. I called him out on how rude that was, and because he didn't appreciate that, later on he kept insisting a certain price tag was for a different item, but I had worked retail long enough to decipher the UPC and product codes on shelf tags.
and im the king of pluto
Was an employee that Opened the Circuit city in Everett wa.. Hired and trained weeks before the doors opened on customer service, products and how to push extended warranty sales. At first the needed quota of extended warranty sales was about 8 percent. Then 9 percent (and it grew as time went on).. If you didn't meet your quota your were called into the managers office for a "Meeting" and told/threatened to retrain and after 3 such visits the company required the manager to fire the employee. It became so unbearable alot of quality salesmen left. And the pressure to customers became an extreme issue also. I was offered a job by the owner of a local computer shop who liked my knowledge and sales ability and I left immediatly (after telling the Store Manager to shove his quotas and numbers up his ass)
Miss that location so much, I think I see it in this video too, now carmax in the area and the furniture store
Dean that’s why I stopped going there. Between the lack of knowledge and the relentless upsell on extended warranties it became a chore to shop there. My last “ purchase “ was a non purchase as the manager was standing behind the employee when I told them if they asked about an extended warranty I was leaving and she did and I walked out without buying a thing.
God that’s terrible. Sorry you had to go through that. Capitalism is barbaric.
@@soberanisfam1323 No, idiots like you are ignorant.
@DERRITY WHITEBOY lmaooo
the last time I was in a Circuit City was in 1993 to shoplift refrigerators
You probably have some good stories
Dress and act like you know what you're doing.
"One minute there, sir" says the security guard noticing you ably carrying it away on your back!
maha77 soon got arrested and spent the rest of his life in jail, just kidding! Recently, he got released, but he will shoplift again!
Why would you need that much fridges?
Don't forget their ridiculous attempt to imitate Best Buy's Geek Squad, Firedog. The original name of which was IQ Crew.
lol i remember that
I remember a friend of mine left there due to stress. They were hauled into the office if they didn't sell enough plans. It was brutal.
I worked for a German electronics retail group last year. It is still the same story, if you don't have enough sales you will be called into the office. Enough sales but not enough afilliate products or attached services or you did not have enough customers that financed their purchase over the partner bank. You are called into the office. You would have to explain yourself and if you couldn't or your performance did not improve you would have to face consequences.
First consequences are reduced brake times and your free day would be planned as inconvenient as possible. Worst case they would say you tried to steal and would fire you instantly and also burn you for all other stores in your region.
It seems to be the same thing with these stores in every place and there seems to be no change over time. There seems to be always the next guy in need of a job that will work in such conditions
@@TJayVariable Which is why I'm glad to see that these big box stores are starting to die out and consumers and employees are getting sick of the bullshit because of the age of Amazon and the internet, however that too also has its own problems regarding employees.
@@TJayVariable 😲 wow that happened to my brother after 14yrs brother at AT&T. They bought out SBC. He wuz on their escalations team and AT& T changed the focus of the business after they bought it. It wuz during the recession, when they were selling U-verse. They wanted him to sell 5 per day. He wuz lucky to get 1 per wk. Customer simply were not buying. That wuz an extra $400+ a month expense. They put him on "steps" then suspended him in January and fired him in March over the phone. Lied on him to unemployment and blocked his unemployment. Illinois is a right to wrk state. He tried to find an employment lawyer to no avail once they found out it wuz "Ma Bell" aka AT&T rearing its ugly head. His family went into forclosure. Its been hard trying to explain that to potential employers. After all that they told him he cud reapply at a reduce pay rate from $25 to $14. I think they did that bcuz he didnt take the "sip" when it wuz offered which wuz only one month pay instead the a full yr pay like they gave to the ones that were there long before him. The same thing happened at Comcast my neighbor cudnt get a certain amt of sales. He wuz under so much stress. Wednesday morning he came home after being called into the office. He complained of a headache. Long story short His wife drove him to the hospital. He died Saturday morning. I didn't ask the wife the C.O.D im almost sure it wuz stress induced tho. Sorry for the long comment. Have a grt rest of ur day.
this is why I buy online
learn programming if you want to live
cheap entry fee, hard to master, worth it
@@michalaugustniak433 not everyone wants to do that
Crazy...I remember they were practically neck-and-neck with Best Buy.....like circuit city was Always packed! And then one day...BAAAMMM, 15% off sales, then 40%, then 50-75% off! I remember getting a Microsoft GPS bundle for like $50, 2 days before they closed, lol.
Okay if they where still open and if there where near my house my mother would have no choice to get me a switch
Carmax has a lot of lights in their parking lots
Lightmax
It’s lit
It's a sales tactic, light up your products well.... Cars, lights, shiny it attracts the flies
When you say ur doing movie night, but ur version of movie night is just rewatching random abandoned epsipdes till u fall asleep
4:27 Hey, that's the old Circuit City from Concord, NH. It's now been transformed into Altitude Trampoline Park. It used to be a Spirit Halloween, but the Toys R Us down the road from there is the new location for that. The mall that Circuit City is attached to is the Steeplegate Mall and is practically abandoned at this point. Sears and JC Penny are pretty much the only things keeping it afloat at this point.
Borders Books would be another good retail collapse you could feature! Would love to see it
Hunter Garrett that used to be my spot at the mall when my mom dragged me out to go shopping!
Hunter Garrett Mervyns and Gottshalks too
Miztli Vasquez m
Borders basically fell with kmart, since kmart bought borders.
I think
Kind of, Chris. Kmart owned Waldenbooks (a chain of stores only found in malls) for a long time, and they could never figure out what to do with it. Instead of doing the right thing - spinning off Waldenbooks and letting it sink or swim on its own merits - they bought Borders and merged the two, in hopes the then-successful Borders' management would turn around Waldenbooks. Unfortunately, the Borders management all resigned.
One Circuit City is now an indoor go-kart racing track.
eyeh8nbc yup it sure is. And it's dying a slow death
one up by me is a best buy. Another is a Dave & Buster's and a 3rd was eventually torn down and replaced with a sporting goods store...
Our Circuit City became a Gold's Gym! Kinda funny!
Most likely it would be a Harbor Freight Tools.
One circuit city is now a best buy. Best buy is savage AF.
I always loved going to Circuit City as a kid and buying CDs and browsing the computer section in the 90s. God, it seems like yesterday watching this video. I was there when it closed. I had to be. Thank you for researching and making this video! Very informative! I always wanted to know why they went out of business.
There used to be a Circuit City in the Fairfield Mall in the Bay Area in California. Its now currently a Drive Raceway karting track, but the outer facade was never changed. So, if you know what the outside of a Circuit City looked like, you can definitely tell what the building once was....
I remember all too well Circuit City. As a sales pro myself, I liked allot what they were doing in the beginning. Near the end I remember going in there to a store, and poor customer was looking at a DSLR, and the sale rep was so ill equipped knowledge wise, I took over the sale, qualified the customer, and made recommendations, and she bought a nice Nikon DSLR and some lenses and was happy as could be. I didn't even work for Circuit City. I was offered a job there on the spot, and I declined, and said, no thank you, but I did recommend training of their staff. Who knew they would be gone so soon after I helped that nice lady with her DSLR purchase. I worked at a High End Audio Store at the time, and Circuit City was across the street, and I would eat lunch around there and go talk to the employees at Circuit City. Some were good friends too. Crazy how things go sometimes.
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They must have been hard up for decent employees at the end. I remember going in there with my Mom to buy a laptop when I was 13. The guy helping us basically just stood there and agreed with me as I told my Mom the pros/cons of each laptop. Before we left the store a manager asked me how old I was told me I had a job waiting for me there. They went under a couple years later.
HiFi Buys in Kennesaw, GA? I remember a Hi-Fi buys being next door to the Circuit City down there.
+Bahzad23
Fuck off if you're just gonna be racist to a person sharing their opinion.
Bahzad23 ouch. boy that was brutal. give yourself a medal for that one.
Everytime I went to a Circuit City the employees acted like total assholes, so I dunno what that was about.
I woulnt care but what was good was the low prices
wouldnt you if ypur comish was cut?
dubla321 Yeah, probably.
but they had more repair parts than best buy does, and now radio shack is gone, i have to keep a stock of components on hand.
Loving Life and the Ocean Radio Shack is gone?
My last memory of circuit city was buying JayZ’s album “American Gangster” from the Winston-Salem, NC location on November 6th 2007.
Wow. I am having 90’s flashbacks when I was young and carefree. Lol
RIP Circuit City ( 1949-2009 ).
And now fry's electronics
I worked at CC in the 90s. I don’t say RIP. I say good riddance. Worst job ever.
@@chriswhite8717 what did they do
I immediately thought back to this video when I saw the new South Park episode from last week when Butters (as Professor Chaos) used an abandoned Circuit City as his headquarters. xD
Lauren210 same
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Mine got turned into a ballet studio
I saw that episode... i liked the part when his dad dragged him to russia and chewed out putin and butters at the same time
The last time I went to Circuit city when they were closing, I bought the second season of South Park on DVD, that’s crazy.
Love your channel man!
On the Circuit City note, did you know that they were the company that introduced the concept of extended warranties? That was a large part of their demise as they were selling products at a loss and making it up through the warranty which they did successfully for quite a while until it backfired in court. Extended warranties are still typically bogus. Generally if an item is going to malfunction it will happen during the manufacturer warranty period, that being said if it does fail later you'll wish you had one lol. Keep up the great work! 👍
Had a bad experience in the 90’s when I had an interview to work there. I showed up on time while the manager stood around chatting with her friends. I waited a good 20 minutes before sticking my head outside the room to see just what the heck was going on. Manager saw me looking out and told me with attitude that she would be in in a few minutes. Waited another 10 minutes and started thinking if this is how a potential employee gets treated, I can imagine how it would be once I actually started working there. I walked out while she continued to chat.
Loved the store but if that’s any indication of their management practices, I can kind of understand their demise.
Circuit CIty was a victim of poor management. They failed to invest in updating their stores and were far to slow to change.
I could say the same for Sears and Kmart
Kmart is becoming the next Circuit City, a lot of these retailers are because were heading for a 2nd Great Depression and people don't even realize it.
how bad will it be?
It's not going to be a depression... it'll be the collapse of the country.
Well I mean the fact that the Stock Market currently being inflated is the only reason there hasn't been a Crash yet is a pretty big deal. If I had to guess, look at the Housing Market Crash of 2006-07 and then google search Great Depression Bread Lines & Black Thursday / Suicides. It'll be that times 100. Honestly the best answer I could give would be after it's all said and done America will be a 3rd world shit hole the way Venezuela is currently collapsing.
I remember Circuit City, Blockbuster and Radio Shack.
There still is RadioShack
I just bought an anti-static wrist band from RadioShack.
Ah phew!
do you remember CompUsa? man those were the glory days.
same
I never had a successful trip to Circuit City. The staff at two stores I went to were rude, knew nothing and simply had no enthusiasm about their products. Perhaps this was due to commission to hourly pay. I walked out of their store angry more than once. Best success I had buying anything was during their going out of business sales.
u cant make a decision based on 1 or 2 trips lol
Good riddance to bad customer service. They treated their customers like thieves 😑
Yeah. Every time I went into a Circuit City to buy anything, all the employees would stare at me like I was sneaking around and stealing stuff.
I remember the liquidation "sales" at Circuit City. They said they were giving discounts, but turns out that they mis-advertised the prices so that you were still paying near full price for the items even though they were being advertised as being deeply discounted.
Sounds about right
I read back then that this is common liquidation tactics. They actually priced everything to the max to fool ppl thinking they are getting a bargin due to the word liquidation. I went to my local CC and everything was MSRP or more.
That's not the case at all.
Liquidators purchased the company and everything inside. Everything was then set to MSRP, and discounted from that.
Nothing was misrepresented and it was incredibly clear from day 1. Its the same case at every liquidation.
I'm not one to defend a major corporation but I worked there throughout liquidation until the very last day - complaints like yours were very common and completely wrong.
@@Tobiasxva Nope. I saw this first hand, and it was also covered on the local news. There were no real discounts at our Circuit City. Maybe at yours, but provably not at the one in my area.
@@mrsone2000 yeah that's not at all how it worked but alright bud, I am literally ~in this video~, I am well aware of how liquidation happened across the entire company. Numerous people made the same mistaken assumption you did here - trust me, people who stuck around managed to snag anything that wasn't (and was) bolted down for a hell of a deal.
You should do a video on Borders Book Store. Used to go there all the time before they went under.
Borders went out too?!
They went under in 2011. Sad. But online retailers killed it. I liked Borders better than Barnes and Noble because Borders had nothing but books and books and books, all kinds of books. With Barnes and Noble, 1/3 is books, 1/3 is kids books, and 1/3 is miscellaneous toys, games, and overpriced stationary.
I was standing in line at "Barnes and Noble" to make a purchase and there was a family ahead of me. The wife was looking at the selection of bookmarks on a spinner rack. She picked one and said to her husband, "We should get this for Mikey" (I'm assuming Mikey is their son).
The husband asked, "How much?"
"Three dollars," said the wife.
The husband made a face and scoffed, "Three bucks for a piece of paper?!"
Common sense prevailed and the wife put the bookmark back.
Agreed Borders was always a way better in store shopping experience then barnes and noble which surprises me they are still around.
Yes, Borders even had coupons anyone could use (up to 40% off any book!) and they didn't have a membership program where you had to pay to get in and receive said coupons.
My local Circuit City was amazing!
My laptop died in the middle of finals week and I needed a replacement.
They closed before I could get there, but the next day, the manager himself met me outside the front doors with the laptop I had ordered. He had stayed late the night before and charged it and made sure everything worked so I wouldn’t lose any time prepping my final projects.
He even tossed in a bag of sodas and snacks that he’d bought on his own dime, along with a pack of CD-RWs, and bunch of popular CDs, and a bunch of new release movies.
Super nice guy, and I’m so happy that when CC closed he was able to achieve his dream of opening his own restaurant.
Just in case you’re reading, because I know you still feel loyal to CC- Hi Tony! Hope you had a great Christmas, and I’m glad you’re back safe from your mission trip!
It's like the letters on signs know when their parent company is struggling...they just give up
god! I adore these videos there so informative it's brilliant
Thanks so much!
Do it
Bright Sun Films do sports authority
i agree
+Bright Sun Films maybe an explore because that is quite recent!
soon toys r us will have a video on here
Spartan Of Iacon welp.....
Dang 😢
So true. I can't find a Toys R us to buy toys for my little sister anymore. Very sickening; this world.
And now they have.
Fucking psychic
3:29 that commerical threw me back to a time that was just better. Everything was better ☹️
Every video I watch about CC, the massive failure of DIVX is never mentioned. That only proves that what they put so much hope into, never became even mildly known. They were really sinking massive amounts of money into taking on blockbuster (ironic since BB was ultimately a failure). Basically you could buy a copy of a movie for the cost of a rental. Every time you put that DVD into your DVD player, it would charge you a few dollars and you could watch it as many times as you wanted for 48 hours. You essentially became your own blockbuster by having racks of DVD's and only paid to watch it when you wanted. Or, you could buy lifetime rental at full cost of the retail DVD price. They sank huge sums of money into this, it required an internet connection, with inputs that had to be manufactured into the machines. So brands like Sony etc... made SPECIAL machines for a CC product. I believe they sank over 1 BILLION dollars into this venture, that never caught on.
My friends and I still discuss the couple of years we worked at circuit city together near Dayton, Ohio. We have all moved on, obviously, and we've all had lucrative careers since, yet when we get together a few times a year, somehow our time at CC always comes up, and how fun that time was in our lives.
It wasn't all CC of course, we were experiencing many firsts during that period. Straight out of HS, 1st apartment we all had together, fun job (it was a great place to work). but it was certainly a big part of it.
Wow. I had forgotten about DIVX. Sheer folly.
2017 will be sears
I wish Sears/K-Mart disappeared years ago. They're just taking up space.
Why is Kmart bad? In NZ it is the second best retailer behind The Warehouse.
The American Kmart has no relation to the Australian/New Zealander Kmart
Caio brown's 2nd Channel
In the US, Kmart is like a ghetto, low rent version of Walmart with a worse selection.
Kmart hasn't been good since the 90s... or even the 80s.
Pretty sad, Sears is a nice store...
yeah. the old Circuit City by me only opens on halloween so hoalloween stores use it
Halloween stores and Party City stores mark the beginning of the end for any town.
***** instead of permanent signage, they'll hang a super sweet banner, letting the world know sht is about to get even worse. sounds like my town, too!
DEEZNUTZ420 _69 Now all closed Sport Authoritys are Halloween stores this year.
DEEZNUTZ420 _69 that sounds like a Creepshow story
they do the same thing to the one here, springfield, mo
I still remember going to the store closing sale of my local Circuit City the prices were still too high lol
I bought my first VCR and many cheap AMPEX VHS tapes from Circuit City in 1985. The tapes still play my MTV videos. Thanks, Reagan. ☺️
Do the SPORTS AUTHORITY
Patrick Ramos I live about a half hour away from an abandoned one of those. Haven't looked inside yet but I want to if the windows aren't covered yet.
I went to one a mile away and man it was emptied and there was so many people there picking over the last few shelfs of stuff
there was one next by me that was connected to a mall,last time i saw it open was in august
I used to live in Colorado where Sports Authority was our main sports chain. We even had Sports authority field the one in our mall closed just before we moved
Patrick Ramos they aren't abandoned but im pretty sure a lot of stores are closing like the one where i lived closed
wow i thought somone was going in to look around an actual abandoned circuit city
Same
It's a giant, empty building with white and red tile, some crappy carpet and nothing else. Abandoned retail stuff isn't too interesting unfortunately, more interesting to see the story behind it.
me too lol
I thought the same, It turned out to be much better than that.
Yeah, exactly. If I wanted to see another UrbEx video about some random abandoned Walmart somewhere, there's millions of those. Jake tells the stories behind why they're abandoned. I've always found that more interesting.
I didn't know Circuit City had been around so long. I remember them popping up in my city in the late 80's. At first, I liked them better than Best Buy. But towards the end, I didn't see any difference between the two. Watching this also reminded me of a place called "Media Play" that I started frequenting in the late 90's. They seemed to have some CD's I couldn't find in BB or CC. Would love to see an episode of their demise, too. Great shows! I have been binge watching them lately!
There’s a building in Need For Speed: Payback that heavily resembles a traditonal 90s Circuit City store.
Fuck Best Buy, I would totally support Circuit City again if it came back
People that work at Best buy know absolutely nothing about anything electronic. 9.9/10 times they are wrong.
(Actual conversation) "Hey do you have Fire Emblem Awakening?" "You mean Pokemon . . .?"
I hate my local store, but online is normally fine with the Gamers Club Unlocked.
Though I bough some amiibos and a 1$ Beatles tote bag, the amiibos were shipped in an oversized box with no packaging, and the 1$ tote bag was shipped separately with a shit ton of bubble wrap.
Well, now you can support it because Circuit City is coming back!
it is coming back.
Maybe you are just lucky to not have a awful store
Would love to see Sam Goodys, Tower Records and KB Toys :)
Me too
Me three. Also Virgin Megastores.
I forgot all about KB Toys...used to love that place
LostGirlTravels ya do KB Toys!!!!! My uncle cousin use to work there.
KB toys yesss do that one
Circuit City was a great place at one time, where you could actually touch and feel the electronics you were going to buy. I got an air conditioner delivered for $88 and a DVD-recorder that has lasted for 15 years. The story was the same old thing: brick and mortar stores, when confronted by other stores as well as the internet, were doomed. People liked being able to touch, feel and sample, but sadly, they then went on line or ordered from another entity...
Just recently discovered this channel and became an instant fan... love your work and this series.
There was a circuit city by me. Then it was turned into (you guessed it!) Best Buy! lol
Wow lol
This is my favorite UA-cam channel. After watching all the "Abandoned" episodes, I am so freaking excited for this new entry. 👍👍👍
Thanks so much
Cheyenne I agree
Bright Sun Films One Of The Best UA-cam Series. Keep It Up!
I hope you have a splendid evening.
White Greed and the Fall of American economy. Thanks to Atheism,Hatred and discrimination against Blacks,and importing all these low quality immigrants . these immigrants who shop lift,damage goods,return used items with swapped out parts, all resulting in high Loss. Corporate greed also plays a huge role. Under staffed stores,under paid,and under scheduled employees results in poor customer service.
I worked for them just shy of 2000. Was a great place, trained well, had high standards and paid well. Best Buy had moved in down the road and took the good management and department leads. Then the good sales people left to get paid without working so damn hard for commission. Some didn't make quite as much than CC commission but they had more stable income at BB.
Our closed store was bought and turned into a health food store chain.
When the electronics places went, they went quickly. When I moved to where I am now (Dayton Ohio) in '05, they had Rex, Circuit City, HH Gregg and Best Buy. Only BB remains (for now.)
Imagine needing to enter a store to buy a electronic device.
Like going to a bank to pay a bill.
The ironic thing is that Circuit City owned CarMax. Yet CarMax still exists today. Can't say the same for Circuit City
You can go to CarMax right now if you want a good used car, if you have it near you.
@@paisleepunk CarMax is ridiculously overpriced
I bought my truck from CarMax. They're the GameStop of used cars.
Good riddance Circuit City. In their final years they became the king of bait and switch - there would be an amazing deals in the catalogs but the ads conveniently left out the fact that it only applied to the first 10 sold. That convinced me never to go there again and then the recession happened. Circuit City will be remembered as an example for other retailers never to pull that shit again.
I remember BestBuy doing sales like that back in the early 2000's.
Charles Scott Yeah I totally remember this. Remember all the ad prices had asterisks by them, and those were the prices AFTER a ridiculous mail-in rebate? Ugh...
You mean like how all retailers pull that shit for Black Friday every year.
so true.
In 2002, I spent $30 at CC to buy 4 music CDs and then never went back. They were also masters at annoying customers.
I had no idea I was interested in this topic, but after the Pam Am vid and this, I'm hooked!
I am becoming obsessed with your videos , I started with watching a ship video then Pan AM and never looked back lol great information and visuals
I stopped shopping at Circuit City when they introduced DIVX, which was a DVD player that had a modem in it that had to be plugged into a telephone jack in order for it to play any DVDs. This was so that Circuit City could charge the customer for viewing a DVD they had purchased more than five times. You read that right - if you went out and purchased a DVD you really liked and wanted to to play it in in the DIVX machine, you would have to pay Circuit City if you watched it more than five times.
So if you have those now, do they work since the company is no longer around?
From what I remember (and I could be wrong), you bought the DIVX disc. You took it home asnd put it in your player. At THAT moment, a timer begins. You are allowed to watch that video as many times as you want for the next 24 hours, after which you could order another 24 hours window, but ther rights to watch it umlimited times over an unlimited time frame, use the DIVX disc as a coaster, or throw the damn thing away. Yeah, this concept would go over REALLY good with enviromenatalists. How did that work for you, New CVoke of the DVD?
i worked there when they rolled out divx, and we had to push it like mad. no one understood the concept haha
like Thystaff said, the DIVX discs were around $5, and were basically rentals with a self destruct, so that you wouldn't have to bring them back to the store. . You did have to have the player hooked up to a phone line to play the DIVX discs. The players also played regular DVDs, and did not need to be hooked up to a phone line to do it. My first DVD player was a DIVX coded player, never bothered with the phone line, or the DIVX discs. Looking back, the funny thing is that the phone line requirement killed the DIVX part for a lot of people (and was a huge loss of money for CC), because they felt like it was an invasion. Not much later, and people might die if they weren't connected to the internet in someway. you have to search if you want a TV that doesn't connect to the internet, and I don't think there are any BluRay players that don't. not to mention every smart phone out there. so much for being worried about privacy...
The DIVX was a silly idea back then since smarter than average people could just use work-arounds.
I miss Circuit City every time I walk into a Best Buy.
Back in the day Circuit City was a lot better than Best Buy, at least in my experience as a teen. I loved the layout of Circuit City stores as I always knew exactly where to find things
2:53 VCRs were worth $300 in the 1980s and in 2017 its not even worth $5
Believe it or not, if you go to Ebay, or some online electronic retail stores, "new" VCRs are available for for $200 plus dollars. The main purpose of VCRs now is to convert the tapes to DVD or to your computer, laptop, tablet, and/or cell phone.
Stephen N Boy were you wrong lol.
I bought a VCR at the good will a few years ago to watch my vhs tapes that I still have sitting around. If the tapes still play I'm not about to replace my entire collection with dvds or Blu rays lol.
I remember buying one of those small satellite dishes for my apartment from circuit city......after many years its now junk in my garage and there is no circuit city I can return it to......I want a refund gaddammit.
They're still expensive. I want one to watch my baby vhs tapes. ):
A friend of mine lost his job due to this. He was taken by surprise in the middle of the Recession when it was hard to find ANY job.
Hope Moore calm that sad
same, but with my mother.
I always liked Circuit city over Best buy.. also never knew carmax was part of this... very informative..
I love the old mall music in the background. Reminds me of mall shopping in the early 2000's.
I miss circuit city! I worked there from 2007 until they shut down in 2009. It was the best job I've ever had!
Ikr I never worked their but I liked the store
Interesting enough I have a 3 Cd changer AIWA that my parents brought for me when I was younger. It still works.
@ Kyle Swafford. Well when you have a problem, Circuit City had your back along with your name and address, etc. You could even take it back during the manufacturer's warranty period. UP TO A YEAR! Best buy would tell you to go fuck yourself.
sorry your experience with bestbuy was bad but this is simply not true.
I'm sorry to hear that.
How about ABANDONED: Linens-N-Things?
It was the 2nd largest home furnishing retailer in the US. They closed all their stores in 2009, and now operate as an online retailer.
Kyle Hancharick Montgomery Wards
What the hell is that
OMG, i remember linens-n-things
I thought Linens-N-Things was a made up store from the show Glee!!! You learn something new everyday.
I remember that store
Nostalgic to see how such a great company went out of business. I worked there. Had such an amazing time!
I always preferred Circuit City over Best Buy until my local Circuit City store closed, then I no longer had a choice.
Ours became a pc Richardson
I purchased my Xbox 360 during launch season at Circuit City and would go there when games were sold out at Best Buy. I was sad to see them go out of business, because they didn't even ask me for my ID when I purchased GTA 4 lol. Best Buy wants your drivers license, social security card, recent employers, proof that you aren't illegal, are you an organ donor? just to get an "M" rated game lol.
Gamestop is even worse. I went in with my nephew and they wouldn't let me buy an M rated game because I had an underage person with me. "Store policy" my ass.
You're a fucking idiot to even let your nephew play a M rated game. Good for them you fucking piece of shit to humanity.
bob john Did I even say I was buying the game for him? They wouldn't let me buy the game. For myself. Because he was with me. Also it's not like I was taking a 5 year old into gamestop. He was 16. They weren't following store policy, they were looking for an excuse to be a dick.
I also bought my first xbox 360 at Circuit City and got Gears of War and Condemned I also loved every year when black Friday come around :)
Circuit City should've carded you. It's illegal to sell am M rated game to a minor.
I remember the very last thing I ever bought from a Circuit City retail store, Half Life: Orange Box.
NorthernChev a dying game from a dying store. poetic
nathan gwaltney "a dying game" oh okay
For me it was a Linksys 10/100 NIC that was sold during liquidation. Realistically towards the end, you could have walked out with a TV because the employee's didn't care and the place was closing down.
Not gonna lie. I do miss circuit city.
I worked at Best Buy about 8 years ago, and the store manager there was a former Circuit City employee. For Halloween she wore her Circuit City uniform to work, it was the funniest thing ever.
I liked both Circuit City and Best Buy. Honestly on most of the electronics that I was buying, Circuit City usually had the items for a few dollars less BUT unlike Circuit City, Best Buy had a rewards program. Best Buy has always had better service as well.
Thank you for another great video!
I feel like a lot of upper management treats the employees like shit little do they know there whole business depends on the happiness of there workers
You are right. The bigger a company gets, the less the employees seem to matter to the higher ups. However, the entire company runs off the hard work of such employees.
Walmart
Or as I like to call it "Devilmart".
Malwart :)
Yet, without it's promise of the rewards of a prosperous life for individuals who invent and innovate it is doubtful that we would be communicating as we are here now! It's only downside which that i really can see that our ability to produce combined with our ability to innovate may come at a cost of environmental waste at this point which is further ahead of our ability to manage it 's quantity! No matter what though, it is still the best economic system created so measured by the advancement of technology and the spread of wealth to common folk!
I bought my first gaming PC at Circuit City in the summer of 2008 and a few months later the store was just gone. It's crazy how fast they closed all of them down.
The original Circuit City store here in Raleigh is now a Tesla Dealer. Their second location is now "The Container Store".