Tuesday, March 03, 2009

All Sales Are Final

After this Sunday, Circuit Cities across the nation close for good, and its 30,000-member workforce (whoever is left, anyway) will join the ranks of the unemployed. Inside the store near Fullerton Avenue and the Kennedy Expressway on Monday, there's a funereal quality. Employees—wearing sullen faces—who when asked if a display model Sony Vaio laptop missing nine keys is still $623.99, answer with a mechanical, leave-me-the-hell-alone "yep." It's not as if they object to helping, but they're also texting while ringing up customers at the checkout line, because really, what are they gonna do, fire them?

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