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San Antonio — The Progressive Retailers Organization was at the Westin La Cantera Hill Coun
Mr. Hubert Joly
CEO
Best Buy
Dear Mr. Joly,
I know you are working hard to turn Best Buy around, and I hope you succeed. I’m a technology enthusiast and in the past have spent many hours and much money at Best Buy. But, as you well know, there is a lot that needs to change.
I just got back from my local Best Buy, having attempted to buy a white 16GB iPad Mini as a Christmas gift. Not surprisingly, I found they are out of stock. That’
For about a decade, give or take a year or so, I have been visiting the same three
This year’s Black Friday is expected to be the catalyst for tablets to pass notebook shipments for the first time in North America, a trend which we expect to continue for the foreseeable future.
NPD DisplaySearch’s fourth quarter North American tablet shipment forecast is 21.5 million units, far exceeding the 14.6 million notebooks and mini-
I have been reading the pro and con arguments surrounding the decision by several retailers to open their doors Thanksgiving evening.
Up until today, my opinion has been that the trend is a negative for our country and society. There should be a time, albeit ever so briefly, when everyone gets to go home and enjoy a day with their family or just loafing around.
However, it occurred to me that I and the other detractors have put on blinders regarding this issue.
I don
3DTV is a non-starter for three reasons.
1. Bandwagon marketing. 3DTV came along about the same time as the proliferation of 3D theaters and movies, just after mid decade. The promise for both was all very exciting. The studios and theater chains saw 3D as a “next big thing”; something to attract larger crowds of moviegoers. Seeing their enthusiasm, CE manufacturers and retailers said, “Us too! People will see how cool 3D is and
For the last few weeks I thought Hurricane Sandy had managed to knock Microsoft’s Redmond campus off the power grid.
The almost total lack of noise from the software giant regarding Windows 8 sales in both the aftermarket and PC OEM arena is quite telling, and the only reason I could come up with was its email system was down due to the high winds that crushed New Jersey and New York. The hush surrounding the Surface tablet is just as damning.
Not that Microsoft needs to
Brooklyn, N.Y. – I realized only on Wednesday that I had a perfect view of one of the iconic images of Hurricane Sandy outside my window in my home office. The crane is still dangling from the 90-story luxury high rise on 59th Street in Manhattan. It is stable now and should be removed in the coming days and weeks.
It is a metaphor on the ingenuity of human beings to build to the sky, and the power of Mother Nature to flip it over at a moment's notice and tell us who is
Changes put in place by Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly and announced late yesterday were initially surprising, but upon reflection 24 hours later, not unexpected.
Joly came in as a turnaround specialist and he is doing what turnaround specialists usually do — make changes and cut costs.
He is fighting what has to be considered a multi-front war:
*maintain, if not grow, its sales during this holiday season, probably the most important in its history;
*make
If Best Buy’s Facebook account can be believed, the retailer will enter the tablet PC market on or around Nov. 11.
The announcement itself and the manner it was delivered are both new territory for Best Buy.
The company placed an image and a few details about its upcoming Insignia-branded Flex tablet last week on its Facebook page and today rumors abound on the web that its price will be about $250.
The tablet will run Android 4.0, have a 9.7-inch display, a 1GHz
Smartphones are quickly becoming an important tool for voters to follow campaigns, discuss issues and connect directly with a politician running for office.
According to a poll conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 88 percent of registered voters own a cellphone and 48 percent of these folks have a smartphone. And they are not afraid to use it to both spread and absorb election information.
So far during this election cycle, about 45 percent of these people
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