Consumer electronics, appliance store will open in October ...more

September 21, 2009

Yes, the chain known for quite upscale items and genuflecting customer service is opening up a "Nordstrom Rack" location at the Walters Crossing complex at I-275 and North Dale Mabry Highway. It will be a next door neighbor to the Home Depot and across the way from Fresh Market. ...more

August 5, 2009

What is happening to our county? ...more

July 4, 2009

Best Buy Co. Inc. reported Tuesday that its first-quarter profit fell 15 percent - even as Circuit City, a key competitor, closed the last of its stores - because recession-weary shoppers were still limiting big-ticket purchases. ...more

June 17, 2009

Circuit City Stores Inc. has received court approval to sell off its Canadian operations as word came that the company faces a class-action lawsuit by lawyers claiming some laid-off employees were not paid federally mandated WARN Act payments. ...more

March 27, 2009

The northern portion of the planned Cypress Creek Town Center complex on State Road 56 has been listed for sale by its owner. ...more

March 26, 2009

Part of the Cypress Creek Town Center property is for sale. ...more

March 25, 2009

Today, Rikelle Purcell is the face of unemployment. Purcell was working at Authorized TV in Blairsville, Ga., but she moved to Sebring, hoping to find a better job. She wound up with more of the same: here, she's an office manager for Appliance Hospital, handling customer telephone calls, scheduling service calls, routing service trucks. ...more

March 9, 2009

There were more employees inside the newly opened Best Buy than customers Friday morning. ...more

February 28, 2009

Just as Circuit City shuts down, a rival electronics retailer is preparing to enter the Tampa Bay area and challenge Best Buy. ...more

February 20, 2009