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PORT WASHINGTON - Systemax Inc. (NYSE: SYX) said that it will purchase selected assets of Circuit City’s e-commerce business for $6.5 million in cash plus a share of future revenue generated utilizing those assets over a 30 month period.
This is smart. […]

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RICHMOND - So Circuit City is in trouble, and the press is reporting that the company has days to either be purchased, or liquidated. We can’t predict what will happen. All we know is that we went into the Sarasota store today, and there were customers.
That might show where the value […]

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Radio Shack, Reuters reports, has had an excellent quarter, in a time when other retailers have not. Wow. But let’s digress into nostalgia. It’s much more fun.
As a child and as a devotee of brands, I shared a love (and frustration) with the Radio Shack (NYSE: RSH) of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. (Great history […]

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I was talking to a lower-level Circuit City exec in Richmond, Virginia, around 2001-02. He had just left the company. He shall remain nameless, mostly because I can’t remember his name! Wait, back on subject.
So I am chatting with this fellow, and ask about the Alan McCullough era at the retailer (both are gone now). […]

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