Gone are their old wide selection of computer accessories and PC desktop systems have been cut back to half a dozen demos or so. If you are going to CompUSA to buy a computer your choices are dwindling, but you can buy a huge $5,000 plasma screen TV. CompUSA may find out that not only do people not go to computer stores to buy TVs but that if there are no computers in the store they won't buy them either. You have to wonder about the logic behind going into a business they know nothing about and alienating the game-playing geeks who used to be their core customers. It reminds of when Compaq had the brilliant idea of losing money by trying to make the infamous PC-TV.

And it's not just CompUSA. Gateway is doing the same thing in their stores only more. Guess what you can now buy from Dell? That's right, more plasma TVs. Maybe my grocery store will start carrying them too. My mailman (oop, sorry, letter carrier) will be banging on my door. "Want to buy a large screen TV, Chamberlain? I know you're in there! Buy a TV or I might lose some of your mail."