Retail titans like Walmart, Target and Best Buy are challenging tech upstarts like Google, Paypal and Square for advantage as the mobile payments space heats up.
via Walmart, Target Challenge Google, Square as Mobile Payments …
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The Big Box Electronics Retailer That’s Actually (No Joke) Growing
How is it that one electronics chain has been able to expand in recent years, opening dozens of stores around the country, often in the spots formerly occupied by failed electronics brands like Circuit City?
via Hhgregg: As …
Current iPhones Discounted as New Version Rumored for Next Month
I’m sure the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called, is going to be impressive. But you know what other phones are impressive? The iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S.
It looks like both of them are getting discounted as retailers get …
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Technology in the 1990s, as Captured in Obsolete Computer Store Signs
On Saturday, my wife and I went to run some errands at a shopping center in Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. As we pulled into the parking lot, we let out simultaneous little startled gasps: Micro Center, …
Best Buy Founder Offers $8.8 Billion to Take Company Private
Richard Schulze, the founder and former CEO of Best Buy, submitted a written proposal this morning to the firm’s board offering $24 to $26 per share to take the electronics retailer private.
TV Prices Shrink — Yet Average TV Purchase Costs More
The longer technology is around, the cheaper products get for consumers. The price of a 32-inch flat-panel television, for instance, reached an all-time low average of $435 during the second quarter of 2012, down from $546 in the same period a year ago. Even so, the overall average price paid for a new TV has actually risen …
Will Amazon Take Over the World?
Amazon is poised to integrate itself in Americans’ lives in ways that no other company is capable.
via E-Commerce: Will Amazon Take Over the World? | Business | TIME.com.
Is Apple Underpaying Its Retail Employees?
Is Apple underpaying its employees? There are a few standards by which we can answer this question.
via Is Apple Underpaying Its Retail Employees? | Business | TIME.com.
Apple, L.L. Bean and Amazon Score Big in Online Shopping Satisfaction
In an annual study tracking customer satisfaction ratings with the top 100 online retailers, perhaps the biggest takeaway is that Amazon is the world’s biggest e-retailer for a reason: It just plain makes customers happier than the competition.
via Apple, Amazon Rank High in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey | Moneyland | TIME.com.
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Another Way to Save Best Buy: Make It More like Costco
Just about everybody, it seems, is full of helpful advice for Best Buy on how it can fix its business. I provided my suggestions back in March. (That was before the company’s CEO, Brian Dunn, resigned under mysterious …
Update: Mystery as Best Buy Now Says CEO Brian Dunn Quit Amid ‘Personal Conduct’ Probe
In an unusual clarification, Best Buy said late Tuesday that CEO Brian Dunn had resigned amid a probe into his “personal conduct” — just hours after announcing that Dunn had left the company after “mutual agreement” …
Today’s Value Shopper Heads to Amazon, Not Walmart
Walmart became the world’s largest retailer by attracting consumers who were most interested in low prices, not a highfalutin, top-notch shopping experience. So it’s unsurprising that Walmart has received poor ratings in …