I guess it’s actually worse for Circuit City that I’ve never even heard of this. Like doing evil things is bad doing evil things and still being beneath our notice is probably worse for a company.
In medieval chess, as an attempt to make the pieces more interesting, each pawn was given the name of a commoner’s occupation:[5]
Gambler and other “lowlifes”, also messengers (in the left-most file, that direction being literally sinister)
City guard or policeman (in front of the left-side knight, as knights trained city guards in real life)[6]
Innkeeper (in front of the left-side bishop)
Doctor (in front of the queen)
Merchant/money changer (in front of the king)
Weaver/clerk (in front of the right-side bishop, as they worked for bishops)
Blacksmith (in front of the right-side knight, as they cared for the horses)
Worker/farmer (in front of the right-side rook, as they worked for castles)[7]
The most famous example of this is found in the second book ever printed in the English language, The Game and Playe of the Chesse. Purportedly, this book, printed by William Caxton,[8] was viewed to be as much a political commentary on society as a chess book.[7]
I distinctly remember my last time in a Circuit City. I don’t recall the date, but I’m going to say it was circa 2006. I had purchased a Nintendo Wii at one of CC’s competitors but the competitor did not have any suitable Game Cube controllers. So I went over to Circuit City to see what they had since they were essentially in the same shopping complex. In a surprising turn of events, they actually did have Game Cube controllers in stock, they had the style/brand I was hoping for, and the price was actually reasonable.
They had dozens of employees out in the various sections of the store, at least one per department. There were a plethora of customers. However, they had literally 1 cash register open. The line was backed up into the aisles. I am pretty sure I waited 45 minutes just to check out with this one single item, and that’s only because the customer service manager came over after about 40 minutes and offered to check out anybody with only 1 or 2 items.
Might be a complete surprise to the former corporate overlords, but for some odd reason I decided never to go back after that.
My last time there I was trying to buy a GPS for someone. I walked up to the counter and saw the GPS I wanted. I couldn’t get either of the people behind that counter to sell it too me. They were pushing something else and simply wouldn’t sell it to me. I went to best buy and purchased it. A few years later they were done.
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