The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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A new Circuit City opened in Colorado Springs recently and it is literally the finest electronics store I've visited. It is clean, setup logically, etc... But what really astounded me was the employees had a clue. Generally, Best Buy employees are pretty smart, but I easily stumped them with a question about HDMI 1.3 - they had no receivers capable of this technology on hand. Circuit city had both Onkyo and Denon. The employee even understood the tech to some degree. They had tons of 1080p monitors as well. It's fine if they want to offer 720p models for masses, but please don't give up on what you have to offer. For all us who care, Circuit City actually seems to be doing a pretty good job, at least here in the Rocky Mountain Empire, of bringing reasonably priced, high-end components.
007BAF - Being a new store, that one probably has been able to draw in the best qualified individuals from elsewhere in the company, most CC stores fired all of their well-trained employees because they felt they were paid too much.
Any other store probably doesn't have the staff that the one you visited did. Most CC stores are selling heir larger TV's below cost just to steal customers away from Ultimate and Best Buy.
Also, Best Buy currently carries 3 1080p capable receivers, the Yamaha 6090 and 661, as well as the Harman-Kardon AVR-347 (although the 247 will support 720p/1080i active switching, it can do passthrough 1080p). Pioneer's 917 model says it will support 1080p passthrough, as will one of the Sony receivers, but I've not seen those put to the test like the above.
There are serious rumblings that Circuit City could well be delcaring bankruptcy at the end of their fiscal year, and are expecting to post significany losses every quarter. As a company, they're not exactly doing well.