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Circuit City Stores, Inc. Ends Relationship with Amazon.com

RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Circuit City Stores, Inc. today announced that it is terminating its contract with Amazon.com that enabled Circuit City to offer its products and services, including in-store product pickup, to Amazon.com's customers.
"Circuitcity.com has grown tremendously since August 2001 when the agreement was announced," said Fiona Dias, president of Circuit City Direct. "We have been pleased with customer response to our own Web site and have elected to focus on growing the business through our own channel, rather than focus on the small amount of sales the relationship with Amazon.com has generated."

The redesigned circuitcity.com launched in September 2004 and offers more than one million items including consumer electronics, music, movies, games and downloadable content. The award-winning circuitcity.com features in-store pickup of most consumer electronics products and offers more than 100,000 customer ratings and reviews.

According to the plan established by Circuit City and Amazon.com, customers no longer will be able to purchase Circuit City products and services via Amazon.com after today.

About Circuit City Stores, Inc.

Richmond, Va.-based Circuit City Stores (NYSE:CC) is a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics. Circuit City's domestic segment operates 612 Superstores and five mall-based stores in 158 U.S. markets. Its international segment operates more than 1,000 retail stores and dealer outlets in Canada. Circuit City also operates a Web site at http://www.circuitcity.com/.

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