Talk:Circuit City
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[edit] Agree with the nomination.
I've been trying to make legit edits about the recent lay-offs (as I work for the company still, with a neutral opinion towords them), though it seems like the article keeps getting edited by people who have something spiteful to add. For example, I just removed a running paragraph that added onto my Lay-Off comment which included an out-of-context comment about how much the CEO makes, etc. Good luck. 70.126.56.64 22:47, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, it's going to be difficult to keep it factual and neutral. Those layoffs were downright dirty, but this isn't an opinion site. Elpablo69 23:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] vandalism
can we get an administrator to block that IP? the person is obviously not stopping the vandalism. --Alhutch 03:46, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
I've been blocke them everytime they arrive. They also hit Pumpkin Pie. The thing is there is at leat one person that is making legit edits. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 07:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Vanity?
Some of this article reads like a vanity page. "Policies & Principles" is very much unneccessary, with fluff like:
- If you're not completely satisfied with a product, Circuit City will gladly exchange or refund the purchase within 30 days of the sale date, except as noted below.
This is useful for CircuitCity.com, but it does not belong on Wikipedia (especially since a lot of customers would refute this). Regardless of POV, Wikipedia is not a place for return policies, unless they are somehow notable. --SatCam 22:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree completely! This page REEKS of self promotion and 'tooting their own horn'. I know there's goint to be [[major]] controversy surrounding their recent announcement regarding the replacement of higher paid employees with lower paid 'new hires' http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aw.zhHEzMpZU&refer=home and I just hope, in the spirit of NPOV, it's presented fairly in this article. CanadianMist 21:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
The whole page really needs to be overhauled. I've attempted it a couple of times, but have not had much luck. There's way too many weasel words, especially in the paragraphs about firedog lately, that make it a very biased article. It's too bad that Circuit City IP addresses can't be banned from editing the page, because 99.99% of the time, any contributions made by a CC IP address are biased. And sometimes, it's through no fault of their own - it's pretty hard to neutral for a company you work for. B2bomber81 03:06, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
His information would not be vandalism, but the vandal user whose edit was reverted wrote that Wal-Mart is the third largest retailer of electronics in the United States. Wal-Mart operates electronics departments in its stores, but regardless of sales, Wal-Mart should not be considered an electronics retailer- so Circuit city is the second, not third, electronics retailer in the US.
[edit] Number of Districts
So is it 62, or 63? Somebody had previously changed it from 63 to 62, saying that two in Texas were merged. Is that not true? Staus 23:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
The Houston districts did merge for a short while one of the District Managers was let go. They are now seperate again.
[edit] Music Industry Stuff
Okay, I'm removing this because 1. it doesn't have any sources, 2. it wouldn't belong in the opening paragraph if it did have any sources, and 3. because this was copied and pasted into several wiki articles by the same person.
For a temporary period of time, the store also sells musical CDs: "There is much inter-industry talk with record labels of Best Buy's and Circuit City's decision to phase out the sale of CDs. The goal of the entire industry is to go all digital. Stores such as Circuit City for years has suffered from square footage loss to musical CDs, of which could be used for products with better profit margins. As a result record labels have been forced to indirectly pay physical retailers to shelf CDs. For these financial and legal-payola reasons, the music industry is expected to be totally digital by 2008."
Just like in best buy & music industry, find some sources before it gets put back in. --Staus 12:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Expansion
Is there info about Circuit City expanding to Puerto Rico?
[edit] Business Model
I don't want to start any kind of edit war, but, combining the 'retail locations' and 'business model' information into one category doesn't make sense. The information on the product & services does not fit under a 'business model'. A business model is how the company plans to make profit. That covers the products and services, not Generation C, staffing, etc. Those relate specifically to retail locations, not the website, not the phone number (the entire business model) ... just retail locations. I phrase the product categories like I do because that is how they are classified by the company ... in the source that is listed. Circuit City publishes that it is a seller of Video, Audio, IT, Ent Software, and Services. The way that B2bomber81 divides the products up is not in-line with the company's business model, nor is it even correct. Seperating "Mobile Video" into "Mobile and Video", etc doesn't even make sense. Please discuss here to get more opinions before chaning it again. Staus 23:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Likewise, I don't want to get into an edit war either. But there are some issues here that need to be addressed and corrected. The tone of parts of the article come across very much like an advertisement. Statements like "...offers a broad selection" are opinion and sound like CC-speak more than anything else. The entire page is lacking sources. For example, the very first paragraph informs the reader of things like "over $11 billion USD in sales" and "Circuit City is the third largest electronics retailer", but no sources for that information are given. In regards to business model - a business model is indeed a blue print, the company strategy for making money. You are correct about that. But you label the "products and services" as the business model when in fact the product and service offerings are merely a part of the whole business model. Other things that are involved in a business model are things like store layout and design or the "look and feel", staffing models, etc. So it is more appropriate to label both those sections as "Business model", and separate the products and services into a sub. Another issue that I've found, is that many parts of the article are copied verbatim from the company's annual report. This is against Wikipedia guidelines as it is copyrighted material. That is why I've been making the changes that I have. Hope this helps explain things for you. B2bomber81 00:49, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Well it's good to have somebody else who cares about the article. I've reflowed the business model section again, and cited the info in the 1st paragraph. Staus 13:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
I only want what's best for wikipedia :) Thanks for your understanding. B2bomber81 15:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Circuit City to Shutter Stores in Effort to Boost Financial Performance
RICHMOND, Va. — Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC), the nation's No. 2 consumer electronics retailer, said Thursday it plans to close seven domestic Superstores, a distribution center and 62 company-owned stores overseas to cut costs and improve its financial performance. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250885,00.html Crocoite 23:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
RICHMOND, Va. - Our pipeline of expected store openings continues to grow, and we plan to open between 60 and 65 new Superstores next fiscal year. Ten of the fourth quarter openings are planned for February. The company expects approximately one third of the openings to be in the 20,000 square foot format. http://newsroom.circuitcity.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=222832 Staus 02:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
