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Are Big-Box Stores Crumbling?

Time | CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Online Retail, Big Box Stores, Best Buy Sales, Brian Dunn, Retail, Online Shopping, Big Box Stores Decline, E-Commerce, Amazon, Best Buy, Business News

Best Buy released its first-quarter 2012 earnings this week, and though the numbers beat Wall Street expectations, net income took a tumble — fallin...

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'I Am Going To Burn Home Depot To The Motherf***ing Ground'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mom and Pop Store, Home Depot 2012, Walmart, Home Depot Fire, Small Business, Big Box Retailers, Home Depot Arsonist, President Obama, Main Street, Randol Stebner, Home Depot, Best Buy, Home Depot News, Video, Business News

It may be National Small Business Week, but lighting fires in a big box retailer to express support for a local shop owner seems a bit extreme. Ran...

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Best/Worst Brands of the Week: Facebook to the Core, The Pitch, The Man Behind the Scissors

Alona Elkayam | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Hennessy-Youngman, Martha Stewart, Neon Indian, Basketball, Ducktails, Dorothee Becker, Facebook, Terminal 5, Best Buy, The-Pitch, Art-Thoughtz, Amc, Facebook Timeline, Vidal Sassoon, Kim Kardashian, Rachael Ray, Vitro, Slidepollajax, Culture News

KO is a mobile phone sales associate at Best Buy where I purchased my first Blackberry Bold. He was so attentive then. He courted me, hard, to ensure ...

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8 Social Media Tips For Post 50s

Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Apps for Seniors, Aarp, Social Media, Apps for Baby Boomers, Computers for Seniors, Tech post50, The Geek Squad, Best Buy, Fifty News

AARP and Best Buy's Geek Squad recently announced a new partnership to help AARP members take full advantage of all that technology has to offer them....

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Business Should Be About Green, Not Blue (Noses)

Marty Robins | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Economic Recovery, Corporate Governance, Yahoo!, Corporate Greed, Best Buy, Business News

Let's put the focus and accountability on whether CEOs are making good business decisions and not on their resumes and personal behavior.

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Why Women Slackers Are More Productive at Work

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Female CEOs, Female Leadership, Work Hours, Happiness at Work, Work, Books, Work Satisfaction, Compensation, Business, Slackers, Best Buy, Women at Work, Working Women, Female Productivity, Business News

In an ideal world, companies would pay for performance and performance usually equals outcomes -- not hours worked. Who's to say that when you're sitting at your desk in your office you're actually doing meaningful work?

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Best Buy Chairman And Founder Steps Down In Wake Of CEO Scandal

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Best-Buy-Ceo, Video, Big Box Retailers, Brian Dunn, Richard Schulze Best Buy, Reuters, Business News, Richard Schulze, Brian-Dunn-Resigns, Best Buy, Best Buy Scandal, Business News

* Schulze failed to inform audit committee about Dunn allegations-probe * Tyabji to become chairman June 21 * Dunn gets...

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Ex-CEO May Have Used A Company Airplane During Inappropriate Relationship

Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Best Buy Brian Dunn, Best-Buy-Ceo, Video, Big Box Retailers, Brian Dunn, Reuters, Business News, Brian-Dunn-Resigns, Brian-Dunn-Quits, Best Buy, Business News

* Investigators checking if execs failed to report allegations -newspaper * Also checking whether Dunn used company-leased aircraft -...

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Revenge Of The Geeks

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Overtime Pay, Unpaid Interns, Walmart, Geek Squad, Video, Diana Wang, Wages, Fiscal Times, Taco Bell, Novartis, Labor Department, Worker Productivity, Class Action Lawsuit, Hearst Corporation, Best Buy, Business News

If some workers get their way we may witness the real life version of Revenge of the Nerds -- or in this case, geeks. Geek Squad workers have file...

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Best Buy Allegedly Outs Straight Customer On Facebook

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Facebook-Prank, Video, Bad Customer Service, Worst Customer Service, Customer Service, Best Buy, Technology News

Leaving a phone unattended among friends can mean opening yourself up to being messed with in the form of ridiculous status updates, tweets or texts. ...

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H&M, Gap Partnering With Gift Card Service

Reuters | Nivedita Bhattacharjee | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Video, H and M, Hm, Reuters, Wrapp US, Starbucks, H M, Wrapp, Best Buy, Technology News

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee (Reuters) - Last year, the buzzword in e-commerce was Groupon Inc and its myriad of competitors that offered ...

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Not Buying Best Buy

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Bby, Brian Dunn, Best Buy, Best Buy Stores Closing, Radio Shack, Best Buy Closing, Business News

Best Buy is a retailer that so far has missed a structural change that may make its business obsolete. It is only cheap if the "E" projected for next year will be there. So far the market is betting that it won't, and I have no insight that encourages me to disagree with the market.

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Best Buy CEO Quits Over Personal Misconduct

AP | By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Brian Dunn Resigns, Brian Dunn, Best Buy Ceo, Brian Dunn Quits, Best Buy, Business News

NEW YORK -- Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn abruptly resigned on Tuesday after the embattled consumer electronics chain launched an internal investigation int...

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The Top Five Employers Of Twentysomethings

Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: College Students, Walmart, Military, College Employees, Employment, Starbucks, Top Employers, Twentysomethings, Target, Retail, Twenty Something, Young People, Slidepollajax, Young Employees, Best Buy, College News

It's no secret that it is hard to find a job in this economy, especially if you are a millennial. However, if you are a young person and lucky enou...

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Elaborate iPad Robbery Plan Goes Awry

AP | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Orange County Sheriff, Orlando, New Ipad, Video, Ipad Robbery, Florida News, Kidnapping, Jasmin Roman, Florida Crime, Store Robbery, Weird Florida, Juan Carlos Ortiz Valez, Best Buy, Miami News

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A plot to rob a shipment of Apple's newest iPad from a central Florida store was foiled by an Orange County Sheriff's deputy. The sh...

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You Won't Believe Where The TVs Are Tuned To Porn

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Pornography, Video, Seattle Public Library, Vancouver, New York Public Library, News Channel 7, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wifi, Ny Post, Best Buy, Business News

TVs at electronic retailers may provide customers with a bit of entertainment while they shop, but the images on the screens at one Best Buy had a cus...

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Tech Inventors Star In Super Bowl Commercial

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Video, Super Bowl Ads, Super Bowl Commercials 2012, Best Buy Super Bowl Ad, Super Bowl Ads 2012, Super Bowl Commercials, Best Buy Super Bowl Commercial, Best Buy Super Bowl Commercial 2012, Best Buy Super Bowl Ad 2012, Best Buy, Sports News

Best Buy went above any beyond with its Super Bowl commercial, including a wide range of inventors who created so many of the technological devices th...

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High-Tech Start-Up Focus: Flite's 'Agile Marketing Platform'

Bill_Robinson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Charles Schwab, Marriott, Microsoft, Intel, Tostitos, Starcom, General Mills, Fedex, Adweek, Paramount Pictures, Toyota, Best Buy, Cnet, Cisco, Publicis, Yahoo, Sony, Coca-Cola, Hummer Winblad, Dell, General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Mediavest, Digitas, Aetna, Sybase, Loreal, Ibm, Google, Flite, Small Business America, Small Business News

One of the most crucial elements of any high-tech start-up's survival -- much less evolution -- is the money backing the enterprise. Is it 'smart money?' Is it 'patient money?' Is it 'connected money?'

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Beyond the Best Buy Outcry

Dov Seidman | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Leadership, Customer Service, Best Buy, Best Buy Amazon, Best Buy Going Out of Business, Business News

There are reasons this issue struck a chord and these reasons resonate well beyond Best Buy, Amazon, the retail industry and customer service.

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Remember Customer Service? Me Neither

Ann Brenoff | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Box Stores, Bad Customer Service, Lack of Customer Service, Fifty News, Customer Service, Employee Training, Best Buy, Nordstroms, Nordstrom's, Fifty News

Businesses today pacify their bottom line by hiring cheap and inexperienced labor and skimping on staff training. As a result, customer service is a quaint custom of the past and retail stores today don't realize that they are shooting themselves in the foot for short-term profitability.

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Retail Reinvented, Again

John Backus | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Tower Records, Small Business, Startup, Big Box Stores, Retail Entrepreneurship, Cds, Virgin Megastore, Retail, Entrepreneurs, Best Buy, Entrepreneur, Dvds, Amazon, Retail 2.0., Small Business America, Small Business News

We are in the middle of another battle between brick and mortar and e-commerce. Best Buy is dying. But it is not alone. Welcome to the new world of retailing, the death of retail 2.0. So who will pick up the pieces?

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Why Best Buy Sales Couldn't Keep Up During The Holiday

AP | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Best Buy Profit, Video, Best Buy December, Best Buy Sales, Best Buy Struggles, December Sales, Holiday Sales, Best Buy Holidays, Best Buy, Business News

MINNEAPOLIS -- Best Buy Co. says that weaker than expected traffic until the week before Christmas and low demand in Canada and Europe put a crimp in ...

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What Sears Could Learn From This Business Owner

Gene Marks | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Sears, Small Business, Retail Sales, Best Buy, Small Business America, New York, Customer Service, Small Business News

Sears has failed to get my attention. Jake's, a store 1/1000th of their size, has done a better job. And the biggest reason: service. This is how small brick-and-mortar retailers can succeed in an online world.

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Customers Irate As Christmas Orders Go Unfulfilled

Dhanya Skariachan and Alistair Barr | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Holidays, Best Buy Holiday Shopping, Video, Christmas, Reuters, Best Buy Holiday Orders, Target, Christmas Best Buy, Christmas Orders Best Buy, Barneys, Best Buy Christmas, Best Buy, Black-Friday, Technology News

By Dhanya Skariachan and Alistair Barr NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tom Nenon, a philosophy professor at the University of Memphis...

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Toys R Us To Stay Open For Days Leading Up To Christmas

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Macy's, National Retail Federation, Video, Holiday Shopping, The Chicago Tribune, Black Friday, Christmas, Target, Toys R US, CNNMoney.Com, Best Buy, Business News

Looks like Santa and his elves will have to drink a lot of coffee this year to keep up with some of their corporate competitors. For the second str...

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