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Article: Virginia's Circuit City, Minnesota's Best Buy Dispute Who's Biggest.(Originated from Richmond Times-dispatch, Va.)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 8, 1996
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Mar. 8--Is Circuit City Stores Inc. still the country's largest consumer electronics and appliance retailer?
It depends upon whom you talk to.
Rival Best Buy Co. Inc. last year blasted past Circuit City in total revenue for the first time.
Minneapolis-based Best Buy rang up $7.2 billion in sales compared with Circuit City's $7.03 billion.
Circuit City has long been considered the country's No. 1 retailer selling consumer electronics and appliances. But Best Buy has been going through a dramatic growth surge in recent years.
Now a war of semantics has begun.
Richmond-based Circuit City says it continues to be the largest -- if you ...