Desktop Critic: CompUSA: Apple's not-so-superstore.(Company Business and Marketing)
Macworld, March, 1999 by Pogue, David
If this is the best national Mac chain, I'd hate to see the worst
I'm here to buy my very first computer," I tell the young guy in the red CompUSA shirt. "Something really easy to use, for the Internet and word processing." Without a word and without ever making eye contact, Mr. $6-an-hour turns. He strides right past six iMacs in the Apple "store within a store" and stops beside a boring Wintel box.
"Here you go," he says, "$899. Monitor's extra."
I play even dumber. "Is this one of those, um, iMac thingies?"
He scoffs. "Oh, you don't want one of those. You can't put floppy disks in 'em. Besides, there's no software for Macs. This shelf right here--that's all we got for Macs. The 30 shelves over there are all for...
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