The malaise continues at Circuit City Stores Inc.
After announcing a $239.2 million quarterly loss a week ago, the Richmond-based consumer electronics giant has seen its stock prices slip from about $1.75/share on Sept. 29 to a mere 55 cents/share, or approaching delisting territory, last Friday.
The firm, which shed CEO Phillip Schoonover two weeks ago, has announced a “strategic review” and is putting on hold the opening of some of the 45 to 55 new stores it had planned by next March.
The company has 712 “super” stores and nine retail outlets in 158 markets in the U.S. It opened 29 new stores in the second quarter of this year.