Sentences with phrase «big electronics store»

She tried to use it at a big electronics store but something was supposedly wrong with the card as the numbers on it were not «raised,» so they called the police.

40 - year - old Andy Stitzer (Carrell) works at a big electronics store, collects action figures and has never slept with a woman.

Yabai's guide to Japan's biggest electronics stores describes, «Yamada Denki is known to be Japan's biggest electronics store that carries a large selection of products sold at reasonable prices,» adding that:

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The consumer electronics chain had struck a deal just before its Chapter 11 filing in Delaware, which will see a sale of up to 2,400 of its stores to the U.S. wireless provider Sprint and its biggest shareholder Standard General.

But by that time, big box stores like Best Buy were capturing the majority of the electronics business and RadioShack was again getting pushed to the sidelines.

Thieves can then sell that data to crooks who specialize in encoding the stolen data onto any card with a magnetic stripe, and using the cards to purchase high - priced electronics and gift cards from big - box stores like Target and Best Buy.

RadioShack, a long - ailing 94 - year - old electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday after striking a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its stores to the wireless service provider Sprint and a hedge fund that is its biggest shareholder.

The stores — most of which are in shopping malls, and at 1,400 square feet are much smaller than Best Buy's 40,000 - square - foot big - box stores — have become less profitable for the Richfield - based electronics chain.

The company announced on Monday that it would invest $ 4.6 billion in leading Chinese electronics retailer Suning Commerce Group, its biggest step yet toward integrating online and store - based shopping.

We also wait until about 8 am and avoid the stores with the big electronics sales!

There's no rear seat entertainment offered but that's no big deal anymore; a good car electronics store or the dealer will put in a DVD player with wireless headphones for less than $ 500 and most kids older than first - graders would rather watch video on tablets or lap - held $ 99 DVD players.

The new store launches will also arrive just ahead of Amazon's big Black Friday sales season, which will include discounts on its own consumer electronics, like $ 20 off the Echo Dot, $ 20 off the all - new Amazon Echo, $ 30 off the new Echo Plus, $ 30 off Kindle Paperwhite, $ 20 off the new Amazon Cloud Cam, $ 20 off Fire 7 tablet, and $ 30 off Fire HD 8 tablet.

As long as they have the convenience of being able to buy an ereader from their local electronics or big - box store, put in their credit card info and search whatever bookshop pops up for them, they'll be perfectly happy doing so.

Tablet sales will be centered around electronics retail — the Apple store, Best Buy, Walmart — and big e-commerce, and not around carrier stores.

The Xoom with Android 3.0 is the blueprint for nearly every not - iPad to come, a preview of the tablets that will crowd shelves by the end of this year from nearly every major purveyor of commodity consumer electronics, surrounding the churning hordes that bob through fluorescent - lit big box stores, blinking about how they're bigger, faster, more open than the iPad.

As for Fry's, the big - box store's cards seem to be all on the table, with a leaked Black Friday brochure that's six pages long and filled to the brim with old and new, cheap and costly, high - end and low - end electronics.

Two weeks from today, many of you will flock to electronics and big box stores to snatch up the amazing deals that they have advertised for Black Friday.

HTC is the latest electronics hardware maker to contemplate distributing content and services for its devices, after Acer, the world's second - biggest PC maker, said last month that it planned to launch a «next generation» application store.

After all, says Hart, that's how electronics stores encourage people to buy big - ticket items.

It's a familiar scenario: You walk into your local big box electronics retailer and, while admiring the impossible - to - miss, state - of - the - art 3 - D home entertainment system on display, one of the store's helpful salespeople informs you that you can take that very same system home with you today and pay no interest until 2013...

Dell has just announced that their Reconnect program - a partnership with Goodwill stores across the country for electronics collection - is getting a big expansion.

A rule of thumb is that each house built means three new jobs in construction, and then there are the jobs in the big box stores selling the furniture and electronics to fill the houses and the cars to park in the driveways.

Instead, it serves the same price - conscious, careless or uninformed people that have always bought legal forms from office supply stores and will - drafting software from big box electronics retailers.

Speaking of Amazon, don't head down to your local electronics store for your cable needs as the markup on cables at big box stores is ridiculous, and they likely won't have anything in stock but the usual one meter cables anyway.

You can, if you wish, head down to your local big box electronics store or favorite e-retailers, like Amazon or Newegg, and pick up an external drive at a seemingly decent price.

I won't make specfic recommendations here, but I will say you're not likely to find good headphones in a big box store, even if it specializes in electronics or music.

Cables are often one of the biggest ripoffs in electronics stores today.

An electronics store may live on razor - thin product margins and make big profits on extended warranties and overpriced HDMI cables.

The new store launches will also arrive just ahead of Amazon's big Black Friday sales season, which will include discounts on its own consumer electronics, like $ 20 off the Echo Dot, $ 20 off the all - new Amazon Echo, $ 30 off the new Echo Plus, $ 30 off Kindle Paperwhite, $ 20 off the new Amazon Cloud Cam, $ 20 off Fire 7 tablet, and $ 30 off Fire HD 8 tablet.

Bic Camera Inc., one of the Japan's biggest electronics retailers, started accepting Bitcoins at two stores in Tokyo.

«The good news is that even though Apple, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, and other online giants killed record stores and video rental shops and are in the process of doing the same to electronics and bookstore big boxes, e-commerce will never replace the brick - and - mortar shopping experience,» says Sean Glickman, CCIM, managing director of Glickman Retail Group in Maitland, Fla..

Goldschmidt says that big - box rents along this corridor range in the «mid-to-high $ 20s» per sq. ft. Best Buy recently took over a Pergament lease there, and Bed Bath & Beyond and electronics retailer P.C. Richard & Son are both constructing stores on vacant lots, despite the cost of preparing sites with steep gradients.

Big - box consumer electronics stores already have suffered at the hands of the Internet, and stand - alone apparel stores also «will struggle over time,» says Wayne Caplan, senior vice president at Sperry Van Ness in Chicago.

Retail industry insiders Retail Traffic spoke to late last year have predicted as much, noting that in the absence of a hot new electronics item (and the increasing competition from Amazon.com, Wal - Mart and specialty sellers like Apple), shoppers don't have a good reason to visit a big - box electronics store.

The annual first quarter store closing announcements are trickling in, with electronics seller Best Buy revealing plans to close 50 big - box stores in the U.S. and put its money into 100 new Best Buy Mobile locations...