Is CompUSA.com poised to become the Crazy Eddie of Linux? »

Posted By schestowitz 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & Technology

CompUSA used to be my favorite brick and mortar place to buy computers. But when they closed half of their stores in 2007 , the company switched gears and moved to an Internet-sales model. The CompUSA stores in Northern New Jersey all were shut down, which pretty much reduced my computing purchases to the large discount club stores, Staples and the Internet. Good luck finding a 15 foot Cat-5 cable or some obscure peripheral or replacement part on a Saturday afternoon these days. Staples , Best Buy and COSTCO have a decent range of stuff, but there is just no comparison in terms of variety and choice of stock to the CompUSA retail stores when they were in their prime. And before you West Coast guys mention Fry' s , we don' t have anything like that here in the NY metro area. I wish we did.

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Roy Schestowitz is an advocate of fair competition and consumer rights, who expects to complete a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics very shortly.

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