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Shoe Pavilion -- Closing all stores
Circuit City -- Closing all stores
Anne Taylor -- Closing 117 stores
Eddie Bauer -- Closing 29 stores by year end
Cache Clothing -- Closing 20-23 stores
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Catherines -- Closing 150 stores
Tallbots, J. Jill -- Closing 100 stores
Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic -- Closing 85 stores
Footlocker -- Closing 140 stores
Wickes Furniture -- Closing all stores
Levitz, Bombay -- Closing all stores
Zales, Piercing Pagoda -- Closing 105 stores
Home Depot -- Closing 15 stores
CompUSA -- Closed all stores
Macy's -- Closing 9 stores
Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video -- Closing 920 stores
Pacific Sunwear -- Closing 150 demo stores
Pep Boys -- Closing 33 stores
Sprint, Nextel -- Closing 125 stores
J.C. Penney -- Closing some stores
Lowe's -- Closing some stores
Office Depot -- Closing some stores
Ethan Allen -- Closing 12 stores
Wilson's the Leather Experts -- Closing 158 stores
Sharper Image -- Closing 90 stores
KB Toys -- Closing 356 stores
Dillard's -- Closing another 6 stores
--Summary of email. Original email from Vivian L. Brewer of Washington Mutual Bank--
Woah, thats a lot of stores, CompUSA? Do we have one close to us?
ReplyDeleteI think all of the CompUSA stores are already closed as of earlier this year. Does anyone know for sure?
ReplyDeleteSounds like the original owners liquidated the company but then sold the brand, and trademarks to another company which is reopening some stores.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompUSA
Closings
On or immediately before February 28, 2007, CompUSA retained the services of Gordon Brothers, a company that specializes in liquidation, for the purposes of closing 126 stores nationwide. The closing locations were chosen based upon their overall performance, profitability, and proximity to more successful competitors such as Best Buy, Fry's and Circuit City. This first round of closings reduced the number of stores to less than half of its previous number.
During the liquidation process, the stores typically offered discounts starting at 5 to 30 percent off of retail prices, ending at up to 95 percent. The liquidation process was completed on May 14, 2007. The stores were completely shuttered by the following Friday.
On December 7, 2007, CompUSA was sold to Specialty Equity, an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Group. Gordon Brothers closed the remaining 103 CompUSA stores (including all 3 in Puerto Rico). It sold the company's online and technical services, CompUSA.com and CompUSA TechPro, as well as certain stores in the Florida, Texas, and Puerto Rico markets to Systemax a month later.
Systemax purchase
On January 6, 2008, a month after CompUSA was sold to liquidators, Systemax (TigerDirect's parent company) announced their purchase of 16 CompUSA locations as well as the brand, trademarks, and e-commerce business.
TigerDirect also announced that the 11 existing and 3 TigerDirect-branded retail stores under construction will be converted to the CompUSA brand over the spring of 2008, resulting in a total of 30 CompUSA stores by the beginning of summer.
As of October 2008, there are 23 US Stores in Florida, Texas, North Carolina and Puerto Rico including the 16 that Systemax purchased, 1 new CompUSA store, and 7 TigerDirect branded stores.