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Sunday was the final day of business for Circuit City, the once-dominant national consumer electronics chain done in by the rise of Best Buy, the crummy economy, and multiple failings of its own. A Slashdot reader paid a final visit of respect to his local store, and found that they’d gotten rid [...]

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Circuit City scamming people on “liquidation” sales

Circuit City is hurting right now and apparently that is justification for ripping people off under the umbrella of a liquidation sale. These so-called sales are within the 155 stores that are being shut down immediately, but a few reports have indicated that prices are being [...]

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Circuit City Stores posted a wider quarterly loss and withdrew its fiscal 2009 outlook Monday amid sluggish sales, poor traffic and heightened competition.
Circuit City, which ranks behind Best Buy among the nation’s consumer electronics retailers, said it lost $239.2 million, or $1.45 a share, compared with a loss of $62.8 million, or [...]

I isolated the lock ups to one peripheral, my Logitech Marble Mouse (trackball).
The reason I think it didn’t lock up until recently is that Windows released some Vista updates, and I am assuming that the updates made the “plug and play” features of the trackball (which works fine as “plug and play” in my office [...]