21.   Consumer electronics retailers have been strong performers for more than a year, posting double-digit sales growth.

22.   Consumer electronics retailers reported weak sales for the month.

23.   Consumer electronics retailers say they decline to reveal their pricing strategies to avoid alerting competitors but that the list price is hardly something to which they pay attention.

24.   Despite the heavy casualty list for consumer electronics retailers, Wall Street seems keen on survivors Best Buy and Circuit City.

25.   Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, Mass., said it would market its family of consumer personal computers through electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. of Richmond.

26.   Electronics retailers across the country have been suffering in the past year because few new hit products have attracted shoppers.

27.   Electronics retailers are licking their lips, too.

28.   Electronics retailers rose on optimism for strong profit growth.

29.   Electronics retailers, eager to keep scarce customers from turning elsewhere, are discounting even strong-selling products.

30.   Electronics retailer Interdiscount Holding AG, which first introduced Japanese products to Switzerland, was broken up this year and last to avert bankruptcy.