Best Buy Gets 'City' Neighbor
By Alan Wolf -- TWICE, 11/19/2007
NEW YORK — The stretch of Fifth Avenue between East 44th and East 45th streets in Midtown Manhattan may have become the most hotly contested block in CE retailing last week.
That's when Circuit City opened the doors to a new format store, The City, directly adjacent to an existing Best Buy location.
Circuit City's 20,000-square-foot concept store offers a tightly edited assortment, new fixturing, enhanced customer service and a more interactive shopping experience. The format also "makes it easy for consumers to swing by and pick up" their online purchases, CEO Phil Schoonover explained earlier this Fall.
Circuit City has been promoting the opening — along with those of 64 other new and relocated stores this fiscal year — by giving away one Mazda sport utility vehicle each day from Nov. 4 through Dec. 3 as part of a "Drive to 65" instant-win game. The retailer wouldn't say how many of the 65 stores are The City locations.
