The suit was brought by American businessmen who had the rights to franchise Compusa stores in Mexico.
So far, Amazon has polished off Tower Records, Borders, CompUSA and now apparently Barnes and Noble.
Instead, CompUSA aims to offer a better shopping experience by marshaling in-store technology.
FORBES: CompUSA Betting On In-Store Technology To Be "America's Next Big Electronics Retailer"
Meanwhile, a manager at a CompUSA in the same town said it initially got three iMacs and sold them immediately.
In 1999 he persuaded CompUSA to advertise in minority-owned newspapers, after urging his fans to send in their CompUSA receipts to prove they shopped there.
It focuses on connecting customers in CompUSA outlets to online product information in an attempt to marry the most attractive features of online and in-store shopping.
FORBES: CompUSA Betting On In-Store Technology To Be "America's Next Big Electronics Retailer"
The plan involves linking nearly every gadget in CompUSA, including computers, laptops, monitors and televisions, to the Internet and serving up as much data as possible.
FORBES: CompUSA Betting On In-Store Technology To Be "America's Next Big Electronics Retailer"
Slim's people showed some interest in doing business with them, but the idea went out the window when Grupo Carso and Grupo Sanborns bought Compusa in early 2000.
CompUSA couldn't give an estimated time of arrival for iMacs.
Both the base product and the added gadgets are currently available through the company's Web site and will soon be available at retailers like Bestbuy.com and CompUSA .
CompUSA has adopted a more flexible approach.
FORBES: CompUSA Betting On In-Store Technology To Be "America's Next Big Electronics Retailer"
It had an on again, off again relationship with Best Buy, the Apple store within CompUSA was tucked into a back corner and lacked the Apple specialists needed to work with customers, and a fling with Circuit City came as that chain was on its way out.
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Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) retail stores, which now number 27, continue to multiply, which makes it a more potent competitor to its own customers such as CompUSA , Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people)--which is selling off its remaining Apple inventory--and others.
An MSNBC writeup took a look at how Wal-Mart's industry-leading price scheme is potentially hurting the other guys, and it even goes so far as to suggest that the recent store closings and layoffs at Circuit City, Tweeter, CompUSA, and Rex Stores were all triggered by the giant slashing prices to acquire razor-thin margins.
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We know it's been a rough couple of nights for you folks who didn't get your pre-order on (or got the shaft, even so) trying to hunt down a Playstation 3 without becoming the hunted, but there's an off chance that CompUSA may still be able to save your sanity.
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