Circuit City selling Macs again

The local circuit city stores that are selling the Macs (there is one in Richmond, VA) have an onsite Apple Rep, along with Circuit City trained salespeople, to assist in the Apple sales. I see this as very good step forward for Circuit City and the consumers.

For those not near an Apple store like all of us in New Mexico, and who don't like dealing with Best Buy or Circuit City (worse than the guy who sells out of the back end of a truck in my opinion), how about Amazon. I got my iMac dual-core in January with a $150 rebate — $1544 instead of $1699 (and no sales tax). They've got the 24-inch for $1849 after rebate.

I found some more today.

Mac Minis:
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Desktop-Computers/sem/rpsm/catOid/-12962/Ntk/All/Ntt/mac/rpem/ccd/categorylist.do

iMacs:
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Desktop-Computers/sem/rpsm/catOid/-12962/Ntk/All/Ntt/imac/rpem/ccd/categorylist.do

No Mac Pros sadly.

The only reasion retail (other than Apple stores) have a problem selling Macs is the lack of interest.

As a company Best Buy has sold Macs SINCE the blue iMac. In stores? Not really...

It's a halfway problem between customers and employees. There are SO many employees that are so biased towards AMD or Intel and Microsoft or Windows or something... and they HATE Macs. For what good reason? None. When your company carries a product and your salespeople purposely don't sell it because they don't like it... the company won't provide it anymore.

Personally I love macs, I sold the HELL out of Mac Minis when my store carried them and I still sell the hell out of MacBooks and MBPs when the time is right. However when we have Geek Squad agents that turn away customers because they don't know how to open the case to do a memory upgrade, you've got a problem. That's no shot at Geek Squad--I wouldn't like a computer that put me out of a job either. If 'everyone' used Macs, computer techs wouldn't have much work to do.

From a current Best Buy employee to all CC employees... good luck with it, push them as much as you can but keep in mind you've got to offer it to the right person or they'll look at you like you're crazy.

To #8:
I'm sure a lot of people are happy to buy there computer online but for first time buyers there is nothing like a hands-on experience. They want to see it, touch it, talk to the salespeople and take it home with them. It's like buying a car except you don't have to keep being badgered by the salesmen and shuttled into different offices. And, if you don't have a computer, how are supposed to buy it online?

Hal

Ah forgot the link for the software.


http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Software/sem/rpsm/catOid/-12996/Ntk/All/Ntt/Mac/rpem/ccd/categorylist.do

@#6

We do. Online.

I work at CIrcuit City, and while we do not carry macs in the store yet, I have personally sold three or four in the past week through our internet warehouse. I own a Mac and I have been told by our store director that when we start selling Macs, I will be in charge of training all salespeople on the Macs.

Oh on another note, I used to work at the Apple Store out at La Cantera in San Antonio. Great employees, snobby ass customers. Got old, fast.

I just wish that Best Buy would put Apples into all of our stores, including software. It always felt wierd when we carried the Minis in store, to only carry Office, but no other Mac software. Also, it'd make it so that I wouldn't have to drive at least 30 minutes in any direction to get to the nearest place carrying Mac software to get it.

To those of you that say you have no place to buy a mac...

www.apple.com

www.macconnection.com

etc... I am sure I could keeep going.

They also sell the remotes, too. :-P

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Apple-Remote-Control-for-iPod-or-iMac-G5-MA128GA/sem/rpsm/oid/137557/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do