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To: Bob Rudd who wrote (6211)	3/5/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: sjemmeri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78473

There are definitely problems at CPU with the Computer City purchase but I think your comparison of the chain stores is missing one important fact. CPU and Computer City are the only 2 100% computer specialists. The other 4 are probably 5 to 20% computers with lots of other stuff (either office or consumer electronics). So I don't think losing sales to them is a real problem. The real problem is losing sales to the net and the overall slow-down in growth of PC sales plus slimmer margins on high growth segment of sub-$1000 machines.