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Article: Best Buy, Circuit City: Vac it up: the electronics retailers have made efforts to draw shoppers to their vacuum-cleaner sections.(housewares)
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- HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
- Article date:
- January 19, 2009
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TVS, PCS, PHONES, HOME-ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS, game systems ... vacuum cleaners?
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Indeed. Best Buy and Circuit City, the nation's two leading purveyors of consumer electronics, have both made statements in the floor-care category.
Both consumer electronics chains offer vacuum cleaners in displays of varying size and prominence, as HFN discovered in recent visits to several Best Buy and Circuit City locations in New Jersey. (Circuit City, which has been under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since November, is in the process of closing 155 of its stores. Last month, the chain received ...