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Non-Tech : CompUSA (CPU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: hoyasaxa who wrote (1398)	3/4/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: jgideon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3187

Your analogy to Barnes and Noble is the correct one. CompUSA has a consumer brand awareness that 99% of the computer sales websites don't. Can they create a killer website just by attaching their name to it? Absolutely not! But a good management team that understands web culture could parlay that brand recognition and good web design and efficient inventory management, etc. into a great web presence. The folks who think brick and mortar will generally fall flat on the web because the business model is really different. A buyout might offer this opportunity. A truly independent CompUSA Direct division might as well. And on a perverse note, didn't somebody mention a while back the idea of Tandy buying CPU and getting its Computer City stores back plus all the CPU stores for a pittance? We've got to be close to the price where that scenario is not the absurd thought it was meant to be. jg