Comments on: Best Buy to close 50 stores, open 100 mobile-only stores

By: Digital Trends

Digital Trends — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:16:07 +0000

Spoddy from digitaltrends.com said:

And Radio Shack know it too well... http://www.wds.co/news/archive/2011/20111117/20111117.asp

By: Wil Gorman

Wil Gorman — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:59:44 +0000

Best Buy when the first opened, had friendly helpful customer service, they would show you things, help you right away, let you tinker, I went into the store to buy a house phone, took 35minutes for someone to approach me, and then had to call someone else…Remember Home Depot learned their lesson I guess Best Buy wnats lots fo Mini Stores inside their stores but do a MAJOR FAIL when it comes to staffing… I went to Fry’s hell ya… Staff came by every 5 mins asking if I needed help, I spent two hours there…. Best Buy SUCKS… Staff your flippin stores!

By: Nicholas Eix

Nicholas Eix — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:14:34 +0000

I hope the BestBuy stays in my city, a mobile only store would not work.

By: Alicia Thornley

Alicia Thornley — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 22:19:32 +0000

Thank god.

By: Spoddy

Spoddy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:53:47 +0000

And Radio Shack know it too well... http://www.wds.co/news/archive/2011/20111117/20111117.asp

By: Michael D Attaway

Michael D Attaway — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:23:57 +0000

Time to reevaluate corporate structure. Brick and mortars are a thing of the past. People shop from their couches

By: Bristol Eastwood

Bristol Eastwood — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:07:37 +0000

That is the modern obsession of logistics and efficiency without money loss and product loss by corporations in a country that also runs an open stock market.

By: Peyton Farquhar

Peyton Farquhar — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:01:37 +0000

Whatta joke. Yet another example of how the system is stacked against the average person. When carbon based ppl lose a job, it’s devastating economic loss. When a corporate person shutters its biz, it files BK and reorganizes at zero loss to the shareholders.

By: Bristol Eastwood

Bristol Eastwood — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:59:47 +0000

Its a good store to browse and check out stuff you’ll buy on Amazon, Newegg, Tigerdirect, Woot, Ebay still

By: Robin L. Hudson

Robin L. Hudson — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:59:36 +0000

It was only a matter of time.

By: Max Gelber

Max Gelber — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:49:37 +0000

I definitely agree this is a smart strategy on their part. Better to adapt to consumer needs and stay afloat than to risk what happened to Circuit City and go down hard and have to switch over to a web site only retail model very suddenly.

However, I don't see the move to primarily cell phone only stores as all that desperate. I wouldn't be surprised if the bulk of in-store business has been primarily cell phone based the last few years. Scaling down and just focusing on that instead of being stubborn is pretty smart.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:03:59 +0000

There was a show on MSNBC where they covered Best Buy and how they are being affected by online retailers and the market as a whole. They really struggled in China and had to pull the plug there right after launching. Their acquisition of CarPhone Warehouse in the UK was successful overall, but anytime I see an electronics retailer scale down and put a big emphasis on cell phones, I would sell their stock immediately. Cell phones have kept the aging Radio Shack alive, and it's a desperate move on Best Buy's part as well to depend on a single category like that to keep the business going.

With that said, I do think their strategy of having smaller shops is a smart one. I feel like their current stores are unnecessarily large for what they have in there. That and I would never buy audio equipment from them. Their displays are junked up and sales people are not knowledgeable there.