As white-collar workers return desultorily to their desk jobs, they waste time by shopping online. To capitalize on this, a group of online retailers invented "Cyber Monday," a day of Internet discounts to match Black Friday's in-store deals. You'd think that the planned traffic from such a staged e...

While nothing can match the horror of workers getting killed by stupid mobs and shootings in the middle of a Toys R Us, we keep receiving horror tales about other Black Fridays gone wrong. The......

This is Round 37 in our Worst Company in America contest, Best Buy vs CompUSA! Which Company Is Worse? ( polls) Inside, readers comments from previous rounds on why they hate each company... BestBuy : "a no-questions-asked return policy for monitors is all Best Buy has going for it." "Best Buy force...

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets CompUSA died a sputtering, inglorious death, but Ohio-based Systemax (which owns TigerDirect) didn't shell out $30M to pick up the pieces for nothing: it's just announced that it's re-opening 15 US stores and opening a new one, 13 of which are in Florida. We're not sure wh...

polls - Take Our Poll polls - Take Our Poll CompUSA may be out of business, but that doesn't mean it can't be the Worst Company in America. Before their untimely demise, CompUSA (and/or their liquidator) sold crappy broken items at small discounts; raised prices before "lowering" them, sent callous ...

Now that they're either liquidated or being sold to TigerDirect, it's getting pretty chillax around CompUSA land. Here are some pictures reader Jon snapped when he went to snag some computer deals. In the left you can see a CompUSA employee whiling away his last remaining hours by playing a first-pe...

TigerDirect has gone through with its plan to purchase CompUSA, including its website, inventory, and "16 of the best CompUSA retail stores," according to an email sent by CEO Gilbert Fiorentino to TigerDirect employees. The tipster writes, "This also includes Tiger absorbing a fair amount of their ...

Earlier this month, I wrote why I think Best Buy will soon follow CompUSA into the retail deadpool. Not even two weeks later, Cnet has written a piece entitled “Is Circuit City in Danger?” The piece makes the excellent argument that, if anyone is going to take the plunge into bankruptcy ...

Much hullabaloo has been made of the supposed ’shocking’ news that CompUSA was closing all its stores and officially going out of business. To quote Jane’s Addiction, “Nothing’s Shocking”. I wrote a complaint letter to CompUSA several years ago before they closed ...

Engadget posted the layoff letter that CompUSA sent out to the people who will be losing their jobs. As you can see, it's very warm and appreciative of their hard work. Reader Justin, who sent this in, says, "You have to wonder if Ed even typed it up himself or if he used a Microsoft Word template."...