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A quick look around the just opened Flatbush, Brooklyn location of
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 our stores. That is now Best Buy’s core issue as well.
Best Buy used software very effectively to address this in the past, and there are a few bodies left on that trail, such as Tower Records, and of course all the specialty music stores that Tower hadn’t crushed yet. Now Best Buy doesn’t
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 is always easy (and popular) to make blind assertions about failure and dissolution these assertions almost always end up being “fact lite” with little beyond a bloggers’ poor experience, marginal understanding of the issues, or personal vendetta to back them up. So it is time to shine a little bright
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 summarize my position: It’s not the size of the box, but rather what you do with it.Sometimes it helps to put aside everything you think you know and look elsewhere for inspiration, and what could be more different from CE retail than outdoor gear retail? Things like guns, bows and arrows, canoes, boats, fishing and camping gear
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 isn’t that prepaid handset purchases now represent 17 percent of the market. And, no, it isn’t even that Android OS has significantly higher market share than iOS (and both are still gaining share). What we found to be most significant is that smartphones now represent more than 50 percent of
A changed market has created new problems and complicated ongoing challenges for retail.
CEA’s Retailer Council and its audio-video retailer division are offering help to dealers by offering three “Great Ideas Meetings” in June. These small-group gatherings are an excellent opportunity for dealers to interact with retail experts and industry colleagues to exchange ideas and discuss solutions that work.
According to Michael Pope, chairman of CEA
“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 positive if not still rare thing. However maybe that’s about to change.
JD Powers recently reported that the percent of U.S. new vehicle buyers who say they avoid buying foreign brands, has risen to 14 percent, the highest level since the study’s 2003 inception. During the same time the
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 time, and what efforts were made to help modernize the train system had little to do with the Fascists.
But today the fact that the three major press conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo are broadcast live on the web and more importantly TV has made those run on time, and not be the endless affairs of the past
After pouring Simply Smart milk on my Smart Start cereal, I turned on my Smart TV.
Smartness shouldn’t be applied so loosely. Ever train a glass of milk or teach a flake anything? Only the TV has the inherent smarts to learn and grow. A TV is smart because it is well-connected. Attached to the Internet, the set has the brains to access a wide range of services and have its firmware upgraded even as we on the couch dumb down.
What makes a smart TV especially attractive is
Following breakout successes like the app-enabled Pebble E-Paper Watch and 3D printer Printrbot, which have raised over $10 million and $830,000 from everyday Internet users respectively, consumer electronics innovators are increasingly labeling crowdfunding the future of investment.
The recent passage of the JOBS Act, which allows firms to raise up to $1 million by selling shares in privately-held ventures, with some restrictions, only further promises to ignite interest amongst
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