Just when you thought that CompUSA was done, Systemax (Owner of Tigerdirect) bought the rights to the brand CompUSA.com, trademarks, website and 16 stores for $30 million sometime last week. This comes a month after being sold to the liquidation firm Gordon Brothers Group. Systemax has announced they will reopen 15 stores, 13 of which are […]
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Home Depot closing 15 underperforming US Stores
Posted in Retail on May 1st, 2008
Home Depot announced that they are closing 15 underperforming stores affecting ~1300 store associates. It appears that the housing market problems have gone on for too long and Home Depot has to make adjustments. They say that they are still planning on opening 55 new stores in their 2009 fiscal year.
Embedded here is a video demo of the use of Surface technology in the AT&T retail store. It shows the user placing a Samsung Blackjack on the table and all of the features displayed in rich media with video and audio coming up about the phone. The user then places a Curve on the table […]
I found this video on youtube that shows the new concept stores being rolled out by Borders. It’s a good looking store, but I don’t see anything new.
In case you missed it, there was a good article by CNN Money that covers Target’s Executive team, why they are different and how they are preparing for the departure of their CEO. http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/18/news/companies/reingold_target.fortune/index.htm
Standing in a Barnes & Noble, flipping through a book you are considering to purchase, you can now pull out your cell phone, write a txt a message to 262966 (Amazon on a phone pad) that contains the ISDN, UPC code, or name of the book and Amazon will reply back with the price of the […]
There’s an interesting article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer about AT&T Cellular stores being the first retailer to roll out Microsoft’s Surface technology.
It’s funny that AT&T is the first to deploy the technology when one of the main demos for Surface has been a T-Mobile in-store kiosk.
The stores that will get the tables can be […]
New Marketing
Posted in Retail, Social Networking, Viral Marketing on Mar 25th, 2008
Sorry, I haven’t been posting much the last couple weeks. Between travel and moving my blog from my old host to a new one because of service issues, my time has been sparse. I came across this presentation “The future of advertising” and it talks about old marketing vs. new marketing and has some great […]
Circuit City’s CEO Philip Schoonover has done a couple interviews this week, one with the WSJ and the other with the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, VA (Circuit City’s Headquarters). Here are some of the more interesting questions and answers from the two interviews.
WSJ: Why do you think the new, smaller-sized store will improve Circuit City’s profitability and sales […]
I created a Retail and Ecommerce topic hub at IBM’s Many Eyes project for others that might be interested in adding thier own retail data and visualizations. Stop by and join in on the fun!
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