WOW so many changes since the first sign that they had really the only competition that BIG BLUE store has What can I say I'm a gadget freak and love shopping fr new stuff in these super electronic franchises ! Cell Phones digital cameras cables connectors hard drives software and thing that can improve my PC system !
I still have my PC i bought back in 2000 a HP Pavilion Cost $2000 complete with just upgrading the hard drive and widows XP latest additon installed faster than the new ones and better performing just doing monthly task of uninstalling software programs i don't need anaymore and defrag my disk and fix errors in files ! SO read on see whats happening at CIRCUIT CITY today and stop but every week for more updates !
In 1949, Samuel S. Wurtzel opened the first Wards Company retail store in Richmond, Virginia, at 705 West Broad Street. By 1959 Wards operated four television and home appliance stores in Richmond. The company continued to grow and acquire more stores in other locations including Albany, New York; Mobile, Alabama; Washington, DC; and Costa Mesa, California.
Wards Company officially changed its name to Circuit City and became listed on the New York Stock Exchange in1984. The company, which leased floor space from the Zody's department stores as well as other department stores, began obtaining retail stores and turning them into Circuit City Superstores. The first of these replacements occurred in Knoxville, Tennessee; Charleston, South Carolina; and Hampton, Virginia.
Circuit City established the First North American National Bank to operate its private-label credit card[3]. In 2002, Circuit City began offering a co-branded Visa credit card. It sold both of these operations in 2004 to Bank One (now called Chase Bank). Other companies owned by Circuit City included CarMAX, which seceded from Circuit City in 1999, and Potapsico Design in 2001
