{"id":1002060,"date":"2009-01-23T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T06:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002060"},"modified":"2009-01-23T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T06:06:13","slug":"why-circuit-citys-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/economics\/2009\/01\/23\/why-circuit-citys-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Circuit City&#8217;s Bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I stop by my local Circuit City this evening to see if anything worth buying is on sale. I actually have a couple of items in mind. However, the game I want is selling at full list price, despite the going out of business &#8220;sale&#8221;. The camera I want is actually 10% off, at which price it is still a couple of hundred dollars more expensive than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=B001EQ4BY0\/ref=nosim\/cafeaulaitA\">same camera on Amazon<\/a>. I do pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=B000O39QYO\/ref=nosim\/cafeaulaitA\">one cheap game<\/a> that is actually 14 cents less than the price on Amazon, sales tax included. <\/p>\n<p>For all the talk about how Wal-mart killed Circuit City, I&#8217;ve never found especially good prices on electronics at Wal-mart (or Target, or K-Mart, or similar); and I&#8217;ve never found competent service at Circuity City either, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17837882\/\">before the layoffs<\/a>. It&#8217;s Amazon and eBay other web stores that are killing the big box retailers, especially for high margin items that don&#8217;t cost a lot to ship. It&#8217;s amazing that anyone still buys anything at brick-and-mortar stores like Circuit City and Best Buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I stop by my local Circuit City this evening to see if anything worth buying is on sale. I actually have a couple of items in mind. However, the game I want is selling at full list price, despite the going out of business &#8220;sale&#8221;. The camera I want is actually 10% off, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002061,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002060\/revisions\/1002061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}