Will Circuit City survive here?
by Hawes Spencer
With home-grown Crutchfield to its north and category-killing Best Buy to its south, the Charlottesville outpost of Circuit City may have already struggled to find its consumer electronics niche. Now the battered Richmond-based company is so desperate to stave off bankruptcy that it’s considering closing 150 of its nearly 1,500 stores, a solution one analyst likened to “putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg.” A spokesperson for Albemarle Square said the shopping center has received no notification of any closure.
UVA professor and political pundit 
No. It won’t survive anywhere.
Best Buy vs Circuit City — it really is a no brainer when actually shopping. Whenever I need an item, I go online and see which store has the item cheaper. Circuit City always seems to have the weekly releases of new DVD movies cheaper. And on a Western Digital 500G hard drive recently, Circuit City had the exact same hard drive $40 cheaper than Best Buy. I hope they can survive locally. And while I can’t recall her name (Michelle maybe?), the Circuit City manager is one of the nicest people you will ever meet in either Circuit City or Best Buy!
That would be a shame. Best Buy is a very annoying place to shop, although the one in Cville doesn’t seem as bad as the Richmond ones.