Best Buy Service Trumps Circuit City

April 7th, 2007 By MAY WONG, AP Technology Writer Best Buy Service Trumps Circuit City (AP)

Shoppers make their way to a Circuit City store in Los Angeles in this Dec. 18, 2006, file photo. With more than 800 Best Buy stores in the U.S., compared with Circuit City's 650, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co. Inc. has an upper hand at the moment. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)

(AP) -- Ralph Devoe's hunt for a new computer monitor didn't include a stop at Circuit City, even though one of its stores was only a few doors down from the Best Buy where he went shopping this week.



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