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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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.
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 […]
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 […]
Beginning Jan 30th, Walmart says that they will charge suppliers a $2 fee for every pallet shipped without an RFID tag to their Sam’s Club distribution center in Texas. According to an article in InformationWeek, Walmart still has 15,000 suppliers that have not complied with the mandate of RFID tag usage. It appears that they […]
Today I was able to walk the conference floor at NRF and see what’s new and by far the most interesting (and busiest) demo was in Microsoft’s booth of their new Surface technology. The person running the demo ran through several applications with a constant crowd surrounding his area. I was able to get close […]
I’m in NYC for NRF’s Big Show. It’s pretty chilly in NYC staying between 30-35F, although it’s considered warm for most NRF shows. We got very lucky this morning as forecasters yesterday were predicting up to 9 inches of snow during the night. Fortunately, when I woke up, only about an inch had fallen and […]
Bestbuy.com gets a C+ for their holiday widget strategy
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Dec 19th, 2007
I’m giving Bestbuy.com a C+ for their holiday widget strategy this holiday season. They provided two widgets, one in the form of Yahoo Widgets for your desktop and the second for igoogle. Both are identical in look and functionality. The visual design was well done, although the functionality came up short IMO. Details below.
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