At the risk of dating myself, I’m old enough to remember the days when Best Buy had a formidable rival in superstore chains: Circuit City. A cross between an appliance store (at least until it stopped ...

March 30, 2007 — -- At electronics retailer Circuit City, more than 3,000 employees -- about 8 percent of its total work force -- have been fired for making too much money, the company says. One ...

1949: Samuel S. Wurtzel opens first Wards Co. television and appliance store on West Broad Street in Richmond. 1974: The Wards Loading Dock opens on Thalbro Street in Henrico County. The 40,000-square ...

One of the biggest electronics and appliance retailers in North America for years was Circuit City, a significant rival to contemporary competitors like Best Buy. However, the company has fallen from ...

The Circuit City store in Eastgate Shopping Center is among six area stores the electronics retailer is closing by the end of the year. News of the store closing was announced today (Nov. 3). "It is a ...

Remember Circuit City, the medium-sized electronics store with the red plug storefront? It's coming back, according to CEO Ronny Schmoel, who announced the news in Las Vegas at CES, the world's ...

Around 2001, I recall talking with a lower-level Circuit City executive who had just left the company at a party in Richmond. I remember asking about the Alan McCullough era — the chief executive who ...

Sept. 11, 1948: The date fell on a Saturday during a 12-year period (1940-52) when The Star didn’t publish on that day of the week. Sept. 11, 1998, in The Star: According to a full-page ad, Circuit ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — A former electronics store that was once envisioned as a future light rail station will soon be demolished. The one-time Circuit City building at 110 S. Independence Blvd. in Town ...