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Egghead rolls online again

Online electronics store Egghead.com relaunched Tuesday under the ownership of Amazon.
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Online electronics store Egghead.com relaunched Tuesday under the ownership of Amazon.com.

Amazon acquired the online assets of Egghead, which sells computers, software and electronics, on Nov. 26 for $6.1 million and had been redirecting Egghead customers to its own electronics store until the relaunch.

The relaunched site looks similar to co-branded sites Amazon hosts for Target and Borders. The sites have the look and feel of Amazon's other stores but contain some unique products and content.

Hurt by falling sales, Egghead filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August. But its path to finding an owner was circuitous. A $10 million deal with Fry's Electronics, a retail chain with stores in Oregon, California, Texas and Arizona, was canceled by Fry's, which was in the midst of also acquiring Egghead competitor Outpost.com. Egghead stopped taking orders shortly after the deal fell through in October. --Alorie Gilbert, Special to ZDNet News

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