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we found you a new job

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Would you like a screen protector with that?

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Unlikely. I think Hobbyland owns the franchise rights in the USA, and someone else has the website name.

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I can picture you working at one back in the day. Is circuit city still around?

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Lol! I haven't even thought of them in a decade and it used to be my go-to for TVs and electronics. I think Best Buy wiped them off the face of the earth.

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Circuit City had some missteps in the late 90s that cost them business. They did a stupid with their sales people in 2003, did another stupid with InterTAN in 2004, and went bankrupt in 2008.

Systemax (Tiger Direct) bought the name and held it for a while before selling it to someone named Ron Shmoel. Sounds like a case of (((every time))) here. There's noise about new stores possibly being opened in Texas, but so far that's been just noise.

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I'd love to see them come back with DIY electronics kits, chips, resistors, capacitors, breadboards, wire, ribbon cable, dip headers, bare circuit boards and more. Add some bench software to assist in design of homebrew systems. You can get cell phone goodies anywhere.

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Yeah that would be excellent

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so like Ali Express with faster shipping and the same shit parts marked up 1000%? Yeah sign me up.

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Could be cool. Most likely would suck.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that the new owners want to focus on cellphone products

This is exactly what the original RSH tried and we saw how that went.

They should have stuck with the hobbist angle and transitioned into a build your own pc place.

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They are better off becoming a "DIY" online shop. Not enough "makers" to support them as a brick and mortar.

Their brand name alone will keep them alive as nostalgia will put them over the horizon. They would do well online.

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No way they can compete with online stores in the most tech savy sector.

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There are savvy businesses making a go of it. Microcenter is one, off the top of my head.