In recent years, CompUSA has struggled against other big-box retailers such as Best Buy and Internet-based companies such as CDW. Earlier this year, CompUSA had tried to ignite some interest with ...

Engadget recently posted a rumor claiming a Best Buy memo was being circulated within the company claiming it has on authority (but not “verified) that CompUSA’s holiday revenue has been cut in half ...

November 4, 1997: Apple unveils its plan to open small “store within a store” areas inside CompUSA outlets around the United States. Apple-trained employees will staff these mini-stores and sing the ...

Out of Dallas comes word that CompUSA, the 103-store chain that has been struggling in recent years, will cease operations after this Holiday season.While I genuinely feel sad for store employees who ...

Dallas — CompUSA announced late Friday that it has been bought by an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Group, LLC, which will sell or close the chain’s store operations and sell other assets. Terms of the ...

CompUSA today announced plans to close 126 stores in the United States, leaving the computer retailer with 103 stores spread across 39 states and Puerto Rico. The process began last week with the ...

DALLAS — CompUSA’s liquidation by Gordon Brothers, which acquired it in a fire sale by parent Grupo Carso SA, marks an ignoble end to a retailer that helped make computers commonplace in society. “It ...

About three months ago, Loretta Alkalay, a retired Florida resident, wanted to get a new HDTV. So she decided to give the CompUSA near her home a try. Yes, CompUSA. The once-bankrupt electronics ...

While retailers like Best Buy and Walmart continue to do a healthy brick-and-mortar business, shopping online hasn't been as kind to dearly departed tech bastions like Circuit City, Radio Shack, and a ...

Did you hear the one about the software retail store that started selling software as a service? No really. I mean, how does that work? You walk into the store, go up to the display, and buy what ...

Remember CompUSA? The electronics retailer may have closed up shop in your town, but it never shut down entirely. As reported by PC World’s Tom Spring last January, Systemax paid $30 million for ...