GoingOutOfBusiness

Be on the look out for going-out-of-business sales at a Filene's Basement near you. The Massachusetts-based discount retailer announced Wednesday morning that it has filed for bankruptcy -- for the third time -- and plans to close its 21 discount stores in the next few months.

When I pass a store sporting a large sign that reads "Going Out Of Business" I presume that it is, well, going out of business. Not necessarily, however; a Texas businessman, after experiencing the frenzy that these words inspire in bargain vultures, decided to name his ongoing rug business "Going...

With the liquidation sales at Linens n' Things and Circuit City mostly done, consumers have learned that those deals are often not as good as advertised.What you tend to get is a lot of marketing hype, tacky "EVERYTHING MUST GO" signs -- and prices that are actually higher than you might have seen...

With companies like Circuit City, Linens n' Things and Steve & Barry's in the midst of liquidating all of their stores, consumers are on the hunt for bargains. But they're likely to be disappointed. WalletPOP blogger Carol Vinzant recently checked out a Circuit City liquidation sales and had...

After Circuit City announced that it's closing this week, I heard more than one person contemplate stopping by to see if there are any bargains to be had. The Sunday ad circulars came out in the newspapers today and my husband I noticed they had some already pretty good prices on laptops. (We also...