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By: Bill Matthies |

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

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By: Stephen Baker |

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

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By: Gary Yacoubian |

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

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By: Richard Glikes |

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

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By: Michael Antonoff |

The Bawl Of The Smartass TV

A customer walks into a showroom and the TV says, “Hey, big spender. Come spend a little time with me.”

The customer replies, “Of all

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By: Bill Matthies |

End Of The Big Box?

Bloomberg.com recently weighed in on CE retail with an article whose title summarizes the reporter’s contentions regarding the future of Best Buy, Walmart

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By: Ralf Larsson |

Going Social: Enabling a Collaborative Workforce

Competition in the consumer products and appliances industries is causing all of us to rethink how we do business and ways we can work smarter and faster. This has

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By: Gurpreet Kaur |

The Impact Of ‘Showrooming’ In Retail

There is a new word floating around in the wonderful world of retail and that is “showrooming.” In case you have not heard about it, allow me to

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By: Jim Wehmann |

The Impact of the Splintered Consumer on Evolving Marketing Trends

Since the 1980’s, the consumption of mass media in the typical American home has splintered from three broadcast networks into thousands of entertainment and

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By: Bill Matthies |

The (Really) Long-Term View

The March 3 edition of The Economist included an article describing some of the management philosophy of Amazon’s founder/CEO Jeff Bezos (

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