Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15

posted by cmn32480 on Monday January 15 2018, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the signs-of-the-zombie-apocalypse dept.

Fnord666 writes:

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.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/the-corpse-of-circuit-city-will-rise-again-on-february-15/

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
The Corpse of Circuit City Will Rise Again on February 15 | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 30 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by SomeGuy on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:31AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:31AM (#622881)

    Are they also going to try and bring back the DIVX video disk players?

    ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX [wikipedia.org] for those who have purged it from their memory)

    Customers are so used to getting raped up the butt, they probably could get away with it these days.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Funny=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Funny' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3  

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:02PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:02PM (#623225) Journal

    Bring Back the Newpliance iOpener! [anandtech.com]

    Basically, at the turn of the millennium, when the cheapest Linux computer was about $400 or more, the Netpliance iOpener was a decent Linux computer for $99 that you were supposed to be magically obligated to subscribe to their $21/month dial up service. But you could just buy it for $99, walk out of the store with it. Hack it. Use if for something else. What a cheap way to get a minimal but functional Linux computer.

    Oh . . . bring back the CueCat! Remember that? A barcode scanner given away for free because you would use it along with their application and service to scan products and somehow they would make money. But hackers could figure out the simple protocol and how to write a keyboard driver for it and have an instant FREE barcode scanner.

    These and other winning business models brought to you by Make America Grate Again thinkless tank.

    --
    To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.