That doesn't make it official, it just makes it well verified from internal sources. To my knowledge, no company "official" has stepped forward to make such an announcement. They are still probably crafting a carefully worded announcement on how this is designed to increase shareholder value

I live in Bellevue, WA and have a Compusa, Best Buy, Frys, Circuit City and pretty much every office supply store known to man within spitting distance. Simply put, they have a lot of competition who are doing a better job than them. They routinely get beat on price, have poor help who lie as a matter of course (I often play a computer newb just to see what yarns they will tell), a poor return policy and a very strange inventory selection. They waste a lot of precious space by carrying 15 different types of one thing and then almost nothing (or truely nothing) of another type of item. I often find that Computerstop, a mom and pop store a tenth their size is more likely to have what I need. Good riddance, imo.