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- Best Buy grabs market share; Earnings better than expected
- Best Buy grabs market share; Earnings better than expectedIt's certainly improvednow that they sell Macs.
- Tags: Desktops, better-than-expected, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Best Buy grabs market share; Earnings better than expected
- Best Buy on Tuesday reported first quarter earnings that were better than expected as the retailer continued to grab market share amid the demise of Circuit City. However, same store sales fell 6.2 percent and most categories excluding home office equipment declined, and May sales were weak. ...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Earnings, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Whoa there! Let's not read too much into the leaked Best Buy "leaked" memo
- Whoa there! Let's not read too much into the leaked Best Buy "leaked" memoYou make good points, plus would anyonerisk leaking the email? in this economy, I am sure that those in a position to recive the memo would not risk losing their employment in the chance they get caught.RE:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operational accounting, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Whoa there! Let's not read too much into the leaked Best Buy "leaked" memo
- Earlier today Engadget published a "leaked" Best Buy memo outlining the company's Window 7 upgrade plans. Within moment the blogosphere erupted into a frenzy of crazy speculation. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Memo, Blogging, Construction, Internet, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Best Buy memo details Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricing
- Best Buy memo details Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricingFool me once .....Fool me twice.Fool me three times.Fool me four times.But fool me five times and I must be a hapless Microsoft consumer.You gotta love the sales pitch.Hmmm, an internal memo from Best Buy to their employees. Their...
- Tags: Pricing, Operating systems, Marketing research, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Win 7, Linux Fool, Best Buy Co. Inc., operating system, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Best Buy memo details Microsoft Win 7 upgrade program, upgrade pricing
- Microsoft officials may not be ready to share the date of the Vista-to-Windows 7 upgrade program they preannounced this week. But Best Buy is. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Wal-Mart makes electronics assault on Best Buy official
- Wal-Mart makes electronics assault on Best Buy officialInteresting moveWalMart has the potential to be a major player in the electronics retail environment and a strong competition to Best Buy if it is really serious. A few thoughts for WalMart:1. In the Sunday Ads, tell consumers about the new renovations...
- Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., electronics
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Wal-Mart makes electronics assault on Best Buy official
- Wal-Mart confirmed plans to bolster its electronics selection in a move to grab the void left by Circuit City before Best Buy grabs it all. Confirming a Wall Street Journal report on Monday, Wal-Mart issued a statement on its grand electronics plan across its 3,500 stores. In a nutshell,...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Electronics, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top seller
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top sellerCan't possibly be trueZDNet has been writing of zero prospects for Blu-ray's since MS lost with it's HD-DVD format. Come to think of it the failure of HD-DVD was also a surprise given the number of articles ZDNet pushed...
- Tags: HD DVD, Sales strategy, Consumer electronics, Sales force management, Special Effects, Blu-ray sales surge, Blu-Ray sale, Best Buy Co. Inc., top seller, sales, HD-DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-05-11
- As Blu-ray sales surge, Best Buy holds on as format's top seller
- Whether it's lower prices, more people with 1080p HDTV, or a little of both, the explosion of Blu-ray sales the industry has long been waiting for seems to have finally begun. According to market research firm NPD Group, Blu-ray player sales in the first quarter of 2009 jumped 72 percent...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Blu-ray, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Best Buy to sell vinyl records?
- Best Buy to sell vinyl records?Get Out of Town!ntRE: Best Buy to sell vinyl records?A well-mastered vinyl record sounds great.But I think the breakthrough that matters is the turntable with USB output coming into the 100-150 dollar price zone.I was noticing a few months back that Barnes and Noble was...
- Tags: vinyl record, Best Buy Co. Inc., Vinyl, CD
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Best Buy to sell vinyl records?
- The sale of vinyl records is on the rise. But why would anyone want to buy something that can't be easily popped into your car stereo, or placed in your computer to burn to your iPod? Well, apparently, people don't care about those things, or they're finding ways to transfer...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Vinyl Record, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Flip Ultra HD pops up at Best Buy
- Flip Ultra HD pops up at Best BuyHD what?I'm getting tired of the fact that "HD" can be either 720 or 1080. We have SD for 480 so why not "MD" medium definition for 720? Then we don't have to scour the specs of everything to find out...
- Tags: Flip Ultra HD, Flip Ultra, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Flip Ultra HD pops up at Best Buy
- Although not officially announced, word of the Flip Ultra HD camcorder has been leaked to the blogosphere. Gary Cannon, of Gaxonline.com, posted yesterday that he picked up the new Flip camcorder at his local Best Buy store. The previous Flip Ultra series only...
- Tags: Footage, Best Buy Co. Inc., Battery, Camcorder, Engineering, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Samsung UN55B6000
- Samsung UN55B6000TERRIBLE__NEEDS WORKSo, when I walked into the Bestbuy and saw this TV for the first time, my mouth dropped open...AWESOME!! I said. I haggled and bought the same day. When I got it home and turned it on and said "AWESOME!!"...then it got dark and I watched...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Best Buy Co. Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., AWESOME!!
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Microsoft's third Laptop Hunters commercial - Lisa and Jackson
- The third television commercial in Microsoft's Laptop Hunters series is out and this time it's Lisa and Jackson. The tagline: With just $1500 in hand, Lisa and Jackson look for a laptop that can handle gaming and much more. This time more regular people off the street paid...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Sony Vaio, PC, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- The false contradiction within open source
- The false contradiction within open sourceI totally agreeDear Dana, I totally agree with you. It is not only a matter of ethics, but of economics - in general, the more reuse a community can generate, the more valuable the software itself become, even when monetization happens elsewere (like in the...
- Tags: contradiction, GPL, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- Microsoft's new "price" television commercial (Updated)
- I finally watched the new MS commercial "Laptop Hunters - Lauren" TV commercial, the tagline: "On a strict $1000 budget, Lauren hunts around town for a big screen laptop." While mostly true (the only only 17-inch Apple notebooks cost $2,000-$2,800) the ads don't take into consideration the...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Finance, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady, Laptop Computer, Managerial Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Roi/Tco, TCO, TV
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Best Buy: Quarter better than expected; Home office sales surge
- Best Buy: Quarter better than expected; Home office sales surgeThis is bad news......for Republicans.I am amazed that some people [*cough* - Rush] would like the economy to fail even further, at the expense of more innocent people losing their jobs, just not to have to admit that Obama is able...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Home office sale, better-than-expected, Best Buy Co. Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Best Buy: Quarter better than expected; Home office sales surge
- Best Buy's fourth quarter was better than anticipated even though profits were down from a year ago amid an economic downturn. The company also noted that the quarter ended stronger than it began indicating that consumer spending stabilized. Â And the Circuit City liquidation certainly didn't hurt Best Buy's cause. ...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-26

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