There was always a certain ambiance in Circuit City that I found to be appealing. At least on my local one before it closed down. It was like the lights were dimmed way down, but it was still bright enough to see. I guess you would call that "cool temperature" lighting, which is definitely not fashionable anymore. Everything nowadays seems to follow Apple's store design which is this sterile eggshell white, bathed in neutral or warm temperature lighting. I find it kind of boring, but I understand why they do it that way.

Plus, I loved how instantly recognizable their old stores were. The big red block turned at an angle for an entrance was brilliant imo. They used it a lot in their television commercials and made it look like a plug end or a battery coming down from the sky.

RIP Fry's.

I never understood circuit city. The local one ran prices 10-20% higher then best buy a few blocks over. You'd only ever go there when best buy ran out of dvd-r's.

That being said whoever worked in their gaming section and kept updating the demo kiosk with every game now labeled a "hidden gem"... Props because those were always fresh picks.

1 of the three was killed to make some hedge fund richer. Toys r us would not have died if it hadn't been shorted in to oblivion.

I miss my frys electronics and their goofy buildings

At least microcenter will come to my hometown soon

Once again “the earth” is supposedly synonymous with “that one country in North America”…

Some empires that ought to fall... google, facebook, microsoft

A reminder that two of those three didn't fall, they were killed by vulture capital

This is why I'm so angry that billionaires managed to convince people there are companies that are "too big to fail".

Our tax dollars have been used to prop up private companies.

Yet it couldn't save toys r us?

You can blame BCG and shitty hedge funds for that

"Fun" fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.

And another one bites the dust

The giraffe still lives.

I actually worked at the second to last block busters. It was sad like having a job inside a dying person. Every month it was a new gimmick to get people back. But still fewer and fewer people showed up. You could feel the end coming.

They didn't fall, they left.

There's still a Blockbuster sign up by the freeway near where I used to live. There wasn't a Blockbuster there even when I moved there 10 years ago.

Look up on my works ye mighty and despair

pour one down for Fry’s

Stahp I just watched a 2-hour video analysis of liminal spaces I can only get so hauntological

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Portugal still has multiple very successful Toys R Us stores, most of them more than 20 years old at this point

I miss Fry's Electronics Stores