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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Carell stars as Andy Stitzer, an all - around nice guy who works at an
electronics store in the San Fernando Valley, content with his bicycle for transportation and his vast assortment of videogames and mint - in -
box collectibles for entertainment.
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.
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.
We've also shipped digital storefronts like the Google Chrome
Store, consumer
electronics like the Vizio M - Series TVs, and TV
boxes like the Roku 2, 3, and 4k.
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...
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.
In about 60 days you'll be able to walk into your favorite
electronics store and buy a
box with Windows 8 in it.
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.
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.
To protect the broadest merchandise mix, an
electronics box store might want an exclusive prohibiting such items from being sold in the center: (i) consumer, office and automotive
electronics products; (ii) computer hardware and software (CDs, DVDs and video tapes); (iii) cellular and wireless telephones and communication devices; and (iv) household appliances.
«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.
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...