Thread: Best Buy closes 50 stores
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Old 03-31-2012, 02:02 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Barty.....The B&M electronics stores are just not viable any more it seems. You can point out a lot of problems in BB business practices, like lousy sales reps and up selling warranties and unnecessary services, but the bottom line is BB just cannot continue to provide free show rooms for tax free, lower overhead e-tailers like Amazon. ....QUOTE

The UK online business folded some 4/6 months ago......

[QUOTE: ......Maybe in the future each company has to open its own stores, like Apple does -- Sony stores, Samsung stores, etc. or maybe future BBs will just charge you for looking at products and waive the fee if you buy from them.
Don't know about the others, but the "Sony Stores" in UK are nothing to do with Sony Corp, each one's a completely independent business. Probably why the service is so.....ummm..... "patchy" shall we say.
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