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Circuit City Going Going Gone

Kevin Harris — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:14:06 +0000

While I was out this past weekend in Johnson City, TN I noticed one of those poor individuals that had to stand at the corner of an intersection holding a going out of business sign. The business was Circuit City and they were selling everything at 30% off. Thats ok but I want to see something like 70% off then I might go into the store. I can’t help but wonder how bad this is going to hurt the best buy store across the street. We will see if it effects their sales for the month.

Circuit City Closing its doors….FINALLY!

Kevin Harris — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:00:45 +0000

The news is out Circuit City is going out of business. According to www.bizjournal.com Circuit City is asking judge to allow them close down its remaining 567 stores. I say finally! I use to shop at Circuit City all the time mostly because that was the only electronic store available in my area. Finally best buy moved in and now that is where I go if I don’t order it from the web. Evertime I went in ciruit city I always got bad customer service…sometimes none at all. One time I went in to buy a digital camera. I stood around for at least 30 minutes and no one came around no one talked to me so finally I gave up and went to best buy. I haven’t bought anything from Circuit City since. That wasn’t the only time that happened it was just the final straw.

Its hard to hear this during this time in our economy but I don’t know how they survived this far. The style of the business was getting dated and they could have used a new marketing plan.

I do sympathise with all those that will be losing their jobs though. That is never easy on anyone and I wish them best of luck finding a new job.

A new start, a new blog

Kevin Harris — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:49:13 +0000

I am getting a new start on life, at least that’s the way I am seeing it. In the middle of all the economic chaos God has blessed my wife and I with the ability to be able to sell our house and move closer to the center of the tri cities. On top of this I will be starting a sixteen month MBA program at King College where I work .

Since I won’t be busy enough working full-time and attending the MBA program full-time, I figured why not restart your blog! In reality I thought this would be a great place for me to explain and discuss ideas and theories I will be discovering while attending the business program, but at the same time I don’t want to completely focus on business and economics and leave out my passion for technology, particularly programming and design. You might not think that business and programming go together but they go together like peanut butter and jelly.

I don’t know exactly what business topics we will be discussed yet but as I continue my journey through the MBA I am sure there will be many topics of interest. As for the programming/technology I know I will be posting hints and helpful tips on TYPO3. I am trying to convience the powers to be that this would be a wise system to convert our websites too so I have dove in head first over this christmas break to see how the system works and what it will take to convert our current websites to work in the TYPO3 system.

Please feel free to comment and ask questions on this blog. I will do my best to answer and comment back but as you can see my time might be limited.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy.