I’ve never had a good experience at Circuit City or Blockbuster, and now, with Blockbuster’s aspiration to buy the obviously-doomed Circuit City, I’m afraid to imagine the kind of shopping experience one would have at a merged location: “Hello, welcome to Blockbuster City. Would you like us to take your money now, or waste three hours of your time and then take it? Oh, and we have a sale on year-old, overpriced, bird crap!”

Ok, I may be exaggerating, but I have a lot of pent-up anger towards these companies. I really hope they can get their acts together, because I have both a Blockbuster and a Circuit city in my immediate vicinity, and it would be nice to have them as options when out shopping for gadgets.

Blockbuster Inc. said Monday it has offered to pay more than $1 billion for struggling Circuit City Stores Inc., but the nation’s second biggest consumer electronics chain questioned whether the movie-rental company can finance the deal.
—Wired News - Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City