Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., was an American consumer electronics retail company founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company. It operated stores across the United States and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s, and after a run of acquisitions and a successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange it changed its name to Circuit City Stores Inc. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., was an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s.
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1949 (as Wards Company), 1984 (as Circuit City Stores), 2009 (as CircuitCity.com), 2016 (as Circuit City Corporation)
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Systemax formerly operated the CircuitCity.com website from 2009 until 2012, when it was consolidated into the TigerDirect brand, which kept the website open until 2023, when TigerDirect shut down.
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