By Steve Smith On Aug 20 2012 - 2:48pm

Schulze Sends Best Buy One More Letter

Dick Schulze, founder and former chairman of Best Buy, sent the chain’s board another letter today requesting permission to form a group and “conduct

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

Long Live Best Buy

There has been considerable banter about the imminent demise of Best Buy. Custom retailers and integrators should rue the day that this would happen. We cannot deliver

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

Best Buy’s Challenges Echo Those Of Specialists

It is fascinating that specialty stores were a leading indicator for what is now happening to Best Buy. The real issue we had was the inability to drive people into

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

Best Buy Reconstructed

For Best Buy, and big box retail in general, the past few weeks have been filled with “doom and gloom” comments circulating throughout the Web. While it

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

It's Not The Size Of The 'Big Box"

My last post was only one of many similar recently debating the role store size plays in a retailer’s financial performance. If you missed that, let me

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

How Smart is Your Smartphone Strategy?

There are quite a few surprising findings from our recent quarterly TraQline study of both prepaid and postpaid (contract) wireless phones. The most surprising thing

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

CEA Offering ‘Great Ideas’ Program

A changed market has created new problems and complicated ongoing challenges for retail. CEA’s Retailer Council and its audio-video retailer division are

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

(What If It Were) Made In The USA?

“Made in USA”. During my lifetime that label has morphed from being a reason to buy, to being a reason not to buy, and now, once again, increasingly a

By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

(What If It Were) Made in the USA?

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By Alexander Muse On Aug 20 2012 - 11:26am

How TV is Changing E3

There is an old myth that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini made the trains in his country run on time. Anyone who has been to Italy knows that trains hardly run on