Posted on 04/08/2015 8:09:34 AM PDT by fulltlt
More than 300 Chicago-area jobs will be lost when electronics retailer TigerDirect closes all but three of its 34 stores, including four Chicago-area locations and a distribution center.
About 40 employees at each location will be cut, a spokeswoman said. Stores in Orland Park, Hoffman Estates, Naperville and Vernon Hills are among those closing. According to the latest Illinois Warn report, layoffs will occur at the retail locations May 9. A distribution center adjacent to the Naperville store will also be shuttered, with 172 workers scheduled to be laid off June 8.
I wonder what this means for their on-line business, and the general health of the company?
“I have shopped at TD for years. Sorry to see them go.”
I was in the Tampa Bay store last month. I was the only customer. Some neat stuff but Newegg already gets my money.
TigerDirect closing stores, continuing to sell online
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/consumer/fl-tigerdirect-store-closures-20150313-story.html
The Miami-based company will keep serving customers online but will close its brick-and-mortar locations.
The only stores it’s keeping open are its flagship store in Miami along Flagler Street, one in its technology products distribution center in Georgia and one in Puerto Rico, which has a significant business-to-business operation in that market.
The 31 other stores are expected to be shuttered by the end of June. Each store that’s closing is eliminating about 40 jobs, according to TigerDirect.
Closing up in Canada too.
I used to buy a lot from them but over the last few years I’ve found Canada Computers to be a much better source.
Their brick-and-mortar footprint here is quite small- just one store in Toronto and a handful of locations elsewhere. They’ve been getting clobbered by Canada Computers for quite a while now.
They had taken over some of the old CompUSA locations. They were good at first, but they’ve been going downhill for a few years.
Tiger direct online is the only company’s that’s ever cancelled a sale because they didn’t want to accept my major bank credit card ( that’s been accepted 100 perfect by vendors all around the world). And I was a long- term Tiger customer, too. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of other places to buy computers
I thought they were a website like Newegg or Amazon. Didn’t even know they had brick & mortar stores.
Health of the Computer Industry
Never liked shopping there. Maybe now they’ll open a Frye’s in Orlando :)
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