Blockbuster wants to buy Circuit City

[nycomet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080414/...blockbuster_dc

[Icemage]

Strange and bizarre. I can see why Blockbuster might want to diversify, and Circuit City is certainly a weak link in the retail chain, but I don't see what BBI gets out of it with respect to their core business, aside from perhaps some extra bargaining leverage with content providers?

[Poonking]

Didn't they fail with trying to start a blockbuster music chain and now they want to go into electronics and appliances

[Grisle]

Perhaps if they own a retail chain they can just continue to do their rentals out of the same building so that they can close all the rental only stores? Maybe they're afraid of the future and see this as a way of compensating for financial losses...maybe the rentals will just be supplemental.

[BADDCOMPLEX]

Originally Posted by Poonking

Didn't they fail with trying to start a blockbuster music chain and now they want to go into electronics and appliances

only electronics, CC failed at appliances.

[sardaukar1977]

Maybe they can fix Circuit City, Hopefully it can't get any worse, of course I will probably be eating my words later.

[Grant Matrix]

Circuit City sucks enough to begin with, why make it worse???

[Mxr5150]

Two sinking ships that want to keep eachother afloat...

[Xerious]

wow... one dying corp wants to buy out another dying corp to make one big hunk of dying corp! ballbuster shitty... i like that. but not enough to shop there.

[syncguy]

It is not a bad idea to integrate disk rentals, sales and appliances. Interesting.

[nycomet]

Originally Posted by Xerious

wow... one dying corp wants to buy out another dying corp to make one big hunk of dying corp! ballbuster shitty... i like that. but not enough to shop there.

That's that they said when K-Mart bought Sears. The result turned out to be successful.

(sorry X-TOP, I just read your post)

[actionhank]

Originally Posted by Mxr5150

Two sinking ships that want to keep eachother afloat...

In the end only the investment bankers are happy mmmmmmmmm fees....

[Caligula]

RED color for CC probably change into BLU

Circuit City + Blockbuster =

[Blu Titan]

Blockbuster is actualling reporting a $30 million profit for the last quarter. Blockbuster has a strong promotional relationship with Sony, so I am hoping the deal goes through.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by Mxr5150

Two sinking ships that want to keep eachother afloat...

kmart bought sears and theyre doingjust fine

cc needs something. i refuse to shop there because of their horrid store setup and refusal to remodel any of them!

[Mxr5150]

Originally Posted by xtop

kmart bought sears and theyre doingjust fine

cc needs something. i refuse to shop there because of their horrid store setup and refusal to remodel any of them!

I thought Sears bought Kmart. Either way, I agree with you about CC.

[kknight]

I love Circuit City, they've always treated me better then Best Buy. The other day, my girlfriend's Blu-ray Sharp player has issues, she had it for 5-6 months, didn't want to go through the hassle of waiting for it get fix since it's still under warranty, we brought it to Best Buy, they wouldn't let us exchange it without a receipt, we wanted to get the Panasonic model which is $100 more... Went to Circuit City, they let us do it and since Sharp BD player was selling for $500, we saved money for going to CC!

Circuit City in my opinion has better customer service, salesperson are more knowledgeable, you can negotiate the price where as BB will not budge. I'm all for CC!

[Sling]

Originally Posted by kknight

Circuit City in my opinion has better customer service, salesperson are more knowledgeable, you can negotiate the price where as BB will not budge. I'm all for CC!

+1
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[jw]

I posted this this morning in the Off Topic area where it belongs
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=46493

[Grant Matrix]

Gold star for you !!