Having the weight of every B&N store and
many other big box retail outlets hustling your product is a good way to garner some attention.
The only major retail outlet to sell them is Chapters / Indigo, and
other big box retailers like Future Shop and Best Buy have a paltry selection, mainly on outdated devices from Sony, Aluratek, and Ectaco.
Walmart and
other big box retailers saw their book sales fall 24 % last week and sales through the retail and club channel were down 8 %.
Walmart, Target and a number
of other big box retailers in the USA have dropped the entire line of Amazon branded devices because they did not want to become «showrooms» for the company.
If this thing takes off when it appears in Best Buy today, and
other big box retailers later this year, then it's a whole new introduction to America for Huawei.
Shorts and activewear tops: Target and
other big box retailers offer savvy shoppers moisture wicking garments at more than half the prices of name brands.
Because they could offer their customers credit, and keep their shelves well stocked, smaller stores themselves found it less difficult (it still isn't easy) to compete against Home Depot and
other big box retailers.
Buying coconut oil at Costco, Walmart or
some other big box retailer that bases stocking decisions primarily on low price obtained via buying huge quantities at once is a big risk that what you get is going to be poor quality coconut oil that is either potentially blended with cheap oils or is a Grade B, poorly filtered product.
UPDATE: Since this article was published in June 2013, dozens of other consumers have emailed me with stories of rock bottom priced, poor quality coconut oil being purchased not just at Costco, but
other Big Box retailers.
News that IKEA was buying a 12MW wind farm and installing 2MW of solar in the UK had some commenters wishing that
other big box retailers would follow their lead.