CompUSA files layoff notice

Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 2:58 PM CST

More than 600 CompUSA workers in North Texas are receiving layoff notices as part of the company's previously announced sale.

Employees from stores in Dallas, Grand Prairie and Grapevine are receiving letters that their layoffs will take effect between Feb. 8 and Feb. 22, according to a press release from the Texas Workforce Commission.

Dallas-based CompUSA on Dec. 7 announced it was acquired by an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Group LLC, which intends to shutter the retail electronics outlets. A Dec. 11 letter to the Texas Workforce Commission from Ed Coder, senior director of human resources for CompUSA, indicated the 638 layoffs are permanent and that the company's corporate office will close permanently between March 1 and March 14.

Officials representing CompUSA could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/12/24/daily17.html

The employees had received notice the previou Friday. What a Christmas present! It was a stange place to be...

I predict that Circuit City will be next.

"Wait until MalWart starts eating your Best Buys and Circuit Citys?"

The Big Box Marts are gobbling each other. Who will win?

Surely not the consumer or the worker.

CompUSA was overpriced.
Circuit City treated its employees like dirt and people knew it.
Best Buy, while not perfect, is actually decent and they honor their service plans.

Walmart's selection on its shelves often looks beaten and if they have service plans, I'd expect them to con their way out of supporting them.

I still dislike big box stores regarding service because they are depriving people who HAVE to do a good job to remain viable -- by starting support services. And as we all recall in the press, BB has been caught pirating a commercial diagnostics product (1) and (according to rumor) office suites (2) and later on pilfering peoples' PCs (3).

People complain about lack of integrity and then think the "eggs in one basket" store will do them a good service, while lambasting the small guy claiming his services were "too expensive" with their friends in the doctor's office waiting room.

Given what most people know about walmart already, it's not going to get any better.

I'm not surprised to hear this, really. Sometimes you can just see the writing on the wall when you continually find yourself saying "how does this place stay in business?!" every time you're stuck standing in line for 15 minutes to buy one crummy item. Until you just stop going there. I used to visit one frequently when they had the Apple store-within-a-store concept going on, but I haven't stepped foot in one in years now. Sorry for all those people losing their jobs, though. That's a serious bummer, but hey, George Bush's economy is the best in the history of the world, they keep telling us that every day. Layoffs and plummeting dollars and declining wages are signs that all is swell, so these people will have no trouble getting new jobs, I'm sure.

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on December 11...it was a rather expensive heat sink for my CPU. When I expressed doubts it would fit in my case, the tech guy reassured me that I had "21 days to return it."

At the time, everything looked normal in the store--certainly nothing to indicate an impending store closing. Then, within a few days huge signs went up about the fire sale.

As it turned out, the CPU that came in the mail already had a heat sink with it, so I went back to CompUSA to return the other heat sink. Even though I had the receipt and the package was in unopened, pristine condition, the cashier refused to give me a refund...she pointed to the "All Sales Final" signs plastered everywhere in the store. It took some firm explaining to 2 different managers before I finally could get my money back. As she was completing my transaction, one manager explained how there was mass confusion stemming from bad communication from corporate since the whole ordeal started.

I wonder if other customers with returns were as lucky as I. This whole thing sounds like Enron redux--employees kept in the dark until the last possible second, and employees and customers alike getting screwed.

Years ago I worked for an industrial fabric company in RI. One monday morning a few weeks before Christmas I came in to find that the main office had closed the Southeastern and Texas divisions and our office would now be taking care of all the Southeastern customers and that phone calls were being re-routed to us. The first the customers (long time customers) heard about this was when myself or one of the customer service reps informed them.

Now the kicked is that not even the division manager there knew. His wife called him at work (which was transfered to me) and I had to stumble through trying to explain why her call across town (in miami) ended up in RI. Oh yes.... she had a 1 month old child.

The company threw everything in the building into a bunch of trailers and shipped it to us (minus any sort of inventory).

Not long after I resigned as the company went into bankruptcy.

120 year old textile company was gone within the year, along with the jobs. The way they closed down Miami was just one of many boneheaded moves the new management made. I am convinced they were trying to bankrupt the company.

I will never again work in the corporate world- I like the small personable company I work for. Everyone here is like family and my hours are flexible enough ( I am a single mom). I could get paid ALOT more if I went to work for a big company....but I would rather stab myself in the eye with a fork.

What were they supposed to do with the workers?:shrug: