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After abruptly shutting the doors after changing its bankruptcy filing from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7, customers who had previously purchased merchandise from Tweeter were left helpless. With urging from Connecticut State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to the federal bankruptcy court, three store in that state opened for two hours over two day to allow customers to retrieve the merchandise they had already purchase.

The rest of the inventory is going to a warehouse in Atlanta where Apto Solutions, a merchandise liquidator, will have the dubious task of sorting out previously purchased good to ship to anxious customers, and then they'll sell off the rest.

If you have products that were fully or partially paid for before the doors shut, you should go to . . .

www.deb.uscourts.gov/Forms/b10_dec2008.pdf to download a claim, or file a claim at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

It's bad enough when a store closes, leaving employees out in the cold. When they're holding on to customers' merchandise, it's downright ugly. --Leslie Shapiro

TWICE