see Showrooming.<br /><br /><a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrooming" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrooming">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showrooming</a><br /><br />JohnJ<br /><br /><br /><hr /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [kwlug-disc] Technology big box stores<br /><strong>Date:</strong> Sun, 12 Apr 2015 15:02:37 +0000<br /><strong>From:</strong> CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger@gmail.com><br /><strong>To:</strong> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br /><strong>Reply-To:</strong> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><br /><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignored --><!-- meta ignored -->
<div dir="ltr">There's a thing in retail called "The Best Buy Effect" (or something like that) that describes the problems most brick and mortar stores are having now: people go into a store, look at the products on the shelves, decide what they want, then go home and order it online, cheaper. I sometimes do the same thing myself.<br />
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<div>But I should add that I'm finding more and more that big stores don't carry as much inventory as their websites do. For example, when I was in California last week I went looking for a Kohl's department store as a friend recommended it for men's clothing. Their website has a large selection of big and tall men's clothes, so I drove to two different stores in two different towns. In both cases, there were no b&t items on the shelves. Clerks in both stores told me that b&t is available only on the website. So how am I going to try something on to be sure it fits ok? </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 at 10:10 Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br />
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<div>Add to that TheSource. Which is just another Futureshop/BestBuy clone.<br /><br />Also you have the online only guys, like NCIX.<br /><br />Others specialize more, such as Staples with office and furniture, and Canada Computers with more tech stuff.<br /><br />Futureshop was sold to BestBuy a long time ago (10+ years?) It did not make any sense to keep the two brands going, with stores close by. Almost everything in their inventory overlapped. I am surprised that it took them that long to realize this is not efficient.<br /><br /></div>
I found that sometimes ordering some items online is cheaper than the same items in store (if they had that in the inventory), even when you add shipping. I am talking about the same item from the same store online vs. retail.</div>
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The trend it seems that stores will rely on online sales as their main revenue/profit source, with stores shrinking, perhaps in size and in numbers.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:59 AM, <span><<a href="mailto:jekerr@sdf.org">jekerr@sdf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi gang<br /><br /> Tiger Direct has everything in the store up to 40% off the lowest ticketed<br /> price. Two big box stores have merged and closed stores. I think Staples<br /> has closed some stores as well.<br /><br /> Are the profit margins strong enough to keep so many stores open?<br /><br /> Are we seeing a trend here?<br /><br /> What do you think?<br /><br /> Cheers<br /><br /> John<br /><br /><br /><br /> _______________________________________________<br /> kwlug-disc mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a><br /><a href="http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org">http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org</a></blockquote>
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