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Circuit City [Ed:Circuit City was a multinational consumer electronics retail company that operated stores across the United States] is coming back, and this time, the license holders propping up the ancient big-box retail chain say they mean it.
Following a tease of a CES announcement, current company CEO Ronny Shmoel confirmed on Monday that something called Circuit City will arrive as "a new, more personalized online shopping experience" starting February 15. The announcement event, which was reported by tech-business outlet Twice, included promises of AI-driven recommendations fueled by IBM's Watson platform, plus unexplained "augmented reality" and "search by photo" features.
[...] With this news in mind, we're keeping an eye on Radio Shack's own shambling corpse. That company currently lives as a license granted to one of the former company's creditors when nobody else bid more for the rights in 2017.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:21AM (2 children)
If what you say is true, which it is not, why are there so many abandoned businesses and homeless beggars on the street?
You know something, Mr President, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for doing your part to help bring an end to segregation in the city of Chicago. During the prosperous times of prior decades, we had a very segregated city, with the rich whites living on our north side and the poor blacks living on our south side. But now blacks and whites alike are poor, and the homeless can be seen begging in the streets in our northernmost neighborhoods, and in our north side neighborhoods we find homeless beggars frozen to death under bridges. Empty lots are no longer seen only on the south side. Now an unprecedented number of our north side businesses lie vacant. Now our north side business districts see entire buildings burn down, and no one cares to rebuild. On behalf of Chi-Town, thank you Mr President, for bringing equality of poverty to Chicago. Thank you.
(Score: 3, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:54AM
Let me tell you about Chicago. I brought a lot of money to Chicago, and housed a lot of people, when I built the Trump International Hotel and Tower. The first skyscraper, as you know, was in Chicago. But there's only one building in Chicago that's taller than mine. I wanted it to be the tallest. But I saw what happened to the World Trade Center, the TERRIBLE attack on the World Trade Center. And I decided having the second tallest would be better. I got Adrian Smith to do a beautiful design. The condominiums in my building are the most beautiful housing in Chicago. Some folks didn't want me to build there. And some didn't want me to put my name on my building. People were saying, "Don't put a sign up." Now, they saying, "We love the sign." It's become like the Hollywood sign. It's 141 feet long, 20 and a half feet tall. I wanted it to be much bigger. The city wouldn't let me! The VERY CROOKED DPD, the Department of Planning, wouldn't let me. It's still an amazing, and beautiful, landmark. It could have been much bigger, believe me.
And you've got horrible carnage going on. At one time, more than two homicide victims per day. What the hell is going on in Chicago? When I took office, I told that mayor he needs to get tough, or I'll send in the Feds! And it's gotten much better since I said that. Let me tell you, Obama didn't care. He came from Chicago, but he did nothing to stop the crime, stop the violence. Just a MASSIVE wave of crime and violence, as you know. He was a terrible leader, very weak in many ways.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Sulla on Tuesday January 16 2018, @02:32AM
Because when you offer those homeless (most of them) a 10 or 15/hour job they tell you to fuck off. The lumpen prolitariate does not want to work, they just want handouts.
Either that or meth/coke/booze or insane. My personal favorite was the girl who was excited about her "first night street sleeping in the big city" .
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam