[geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Oct 26, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Rick Hamell wrote:

> No. Compusa closed their stores because of Walmart. There were  
> several news
> articles about it, but essentially a couple of Christmas Shopping  
> Seasons
> ago Walmart reduced Big screen TV prices 30% below their cost.  
> Compusa lost
> millions and wasn't able to recover.

TVs appearing in CompUSA neatly coincided with their going rapidly  
downhill.  That's the same moment they greatly reduced their computer  
related inventory, and I think that hurt them a lot.  I talked to  
some people who said that almost instantly when they moved into TVs  
big-time, they lost tons of corporate contracts and it hurt them  
badly chain-wide.

Then Wal-Mart starts dumping.

Yeah, I can see that chain of events hurting them plenty.

Wal-Mart sucks.  They've destroyed so many other companies, and we  
just let them do it.

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