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- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?Watts a Geek urn ?How much do they pay those Geek Squad guys and gals ?Are these 10 bucks an hour college kids with a lust for 'puters or real trained techs ?Re: Watts a Geek urn ?Although they are a high-powered arm of the...
- Tags: Geek Squad, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Geek Squad: Best Buy's secret sauce?
- Best Buy last week reported solid fiscal first quarter results, but did dish out enough detail to bring out a few worries. Home office gear is selling, but the consumer is winded. But the big takeaway is that Best Buy's services business--specifically Geek Squad--is posting twice the growth of the...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Retail, Sales Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Best Buy will take it back. For free. In some places.
- Electronics and technology retailer Best Buy is experimenting with a free consumer electronics take-back program at 117 stores in San Francisco, Minneapolis and Baltimore/Washington, D.C. Apparently, the company was prompted by a lobbying group called As You Sow, which encouraged it to adopt the program. (As You Sow actually pretty...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Electronics, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- HTC Touch Dual available at Best Buy and WM 6.1 upgrade now available for HTC TyTN II
- HTC Touch Dual available at Best Buy and WM 6.1 upgrade now available for HTC TyTN IIWindows? Bleh!Microsoft isn't known for UI. I bought a MotoQ a year before buying an iPhone. The UI is infuriating, with a huge center button often redials by mistake - and yet refuses to...
- Tags: Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC TyTN II, WM 6.1, HTC Touch Dual, HTC Touch, Microsoft Windows, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- HTC Touch Dual available at Best Buy and WM 6.1 upgrade now available for HTC TyTN II
- The U.S. version, that supports AT&T's 3G network, of the HTC Touch Dual was announced back in April and is supposed to be available online (still shows up as pre-order) and at retail Best Buy locations this Memorial Day weekend. I reviewed the non-US version back in December after winning...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, TyTN II, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-24
- How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes
- How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutesThat is true[i]We pay a lot for our hardware / software so we have a right to be annoyed more than people buying $400 laptops, right?[/i]I agree. When you are not dealing with the higher volumes of people...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Store, Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes
- Over the past few days we've talked on this blog (I've made a few posts and you, through the TalkBack, have expanded on them and added your views) about what makes Apple different to, say Dell or Best Buy. With that in mind, I came across this post by Canadian...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Apple Inc., Civilization, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Big memory cards keep getting cheaper; get the best deals at discount stores and online
- Big memory cards keep getting cheaper; get the best deals at discount stores and onlinewas anything ever cheap at Staples?Staples used to be cheap until a few years agowhen the company came under margin pressureand may have even lost money, and then stopped trying to offer low prices.The company is...
- Tags: Memory, Staples Inc., memory card
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best Buy
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best BuyName Please...I wonder which name going to get ditched? It wouldn't work even if Blockbuster folded all movie rental operations into an Circuit City in store kiosk just like Best Buy did with the Geek Squad. That scenario...
- Tags: Branding, Amazon.com Inc., intenet, Apple Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Chart of the day: Blockbuster and Circuit City vs. Apple, Amazon, Best Buy
- The reaction to Blockbuster's attempt to buy Circuit City has ranged from the comical to the downright negative. I don't get this deal, but at least I'm not alone. On the bright side, Blockbuster has provided us with a few charts of the day. ...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Strategy, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
- Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balmShouldn't there just be a recycle/replacement program in placethe components of HD-DVD players are still modern and reusable??? Be nice, maybe environmentally friendly to 'recall' and replace/reimburse to get this dying tech tree out of consumers' way and back into...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, gift card, Best Buy Co. Inc., HD-DVD buyer, poor HD-DVD buyer, card, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Best Buy gives poor HD-DVD buyers some gift card balm
- Best Buy said Wednesday that it will send a $50 gift card to any poor soul that bought a HD-DVD player. The tally will run about $10 million in gift cards, says Best Buy in a statement. So if you bought an HD-DVD player before Feb. 23--the...
- Tags: Card, HD-DVD Player, Best Buy Co. Inc., HD-DVD, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Best Buy: Home theater; MP3 players; digital cameras and video game sales soft
- Best Buy--a proxy on consumer technology demand--said Friday that January sales slowed enough to force the company to lower its earnings and revenue projections for the fiscal year ending March 1. By the numbers, Best Buy said it expects fiscal 2008 earnings to be $3.05 a share...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Home Theater, MP3 Player, Video Game, Video, Digital Camera, MP3, Camera, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Home Entertainment, Games, Sales, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Best Buy, Netflix declare Blu-ray the winning high def DVD format
- Best Buy, Netflix declare Blu-ray the winning high def DVD formatDon't be so sure on thatAre they really being suckered at 1/4 of the price. If more people have more HD-DVD players than Blu-Ray then it doesn't matter what Best Buy or NetFlicks offers. They will be forced to change....
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Best Buy Co. Inc., DVD player, NetFlix Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Best Buy, Netflix declare Blu-ray the winning high def DVD format
- Best Buy and Netflix on Monday declared Blu-ray the winning format of the high definition DVD war. The writing was on the wall for HD-DVD, which was primarily backed by Toshiba and tech giants like Microsoft. Warner Bros decision on Jan. 4 to back Blu-ray crushed the...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., HD-DVD, Blu-ray, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
- Best Buy gets framed
- Best Buy gets framedI wonder how many people will hate Best BuyAfter Sony BMG's rootkit fiasco quite a few online personalities decided to hate Sony so much they dedicate quite a lot of time evangelizing their cause. Of course it wasn't necessarily Sony BMG's intent to use a rootkit, it...
- Tags: Rootkits, Branding, Best Buy Co. Inc., Diebold Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Best Buy gets framed
- If you were the recipient of a new Insignia digital picture frame for the holidays, you may have gotten an extra bonus with your gift. Turns out the 10.4-inch Insignia model (NS-DPF10A), which was available at Best Buy, included a virus that could allow the frame to...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Home Theater, Virus, Insignia, Home Entertainment, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Consumer Electronics, Tv & Home Theater, Security, Personal Technology, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Picture this: Insignia digital picture frames may carry virus
- Best Buy is investigating a factory installed virus that has infected select Insignia digital picture frames. Insignia is Best Buy's in-house electronics brand. On Jan. 19, Insignia issued a product alert for "a limited number" of infected 10.4 inch digital picture frames (Model: NS-DPF10A). ...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Virus, Insignia, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its stores
- Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its storesWhy does everyone thing Apple will be immune......to a slow down in the economy?This will be BB's third or fourth shot at this....And I can't help but wonder if it didn't come about due to the demise of CompUSA and...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), economic slowdown, Apple Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., CompUSA Inc., Geek Squad, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Best Buy plans to double Mac presence at its stores
- Best Buy is reportedly going to sell Macs in 500 of its stores by February 2009, nearly double the current total. Best Buy executives outlined its plans for Apple's Macs at CES, according to a research note by UBS analyst Ben Reitzes. The implications...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
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