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other big box retailers like Future Shop and Best Buy have a paltry selection, mainly on outdated devices from Sony, Aluratek, and Ectaco.
Not exact matches
UPS told Reuters it is now eyeing the furniture delivery business — one of the fastest - growing segments of online
retail — with Amazon, Wayfair and
other e-commerce companies competing for market share against chains
like Crate and Barrel and
big -
box stores.
Non-Prime users spend a little more than half that ($ 700), but they may be picking up the tab elsewhere,
like in the cost of gas to shop in - store, the higher price of items from
big -
box retailers, and shipping from
other stores.
But now, the company seems to have ramped up production, and at this point, the Nest thermostat is selling through a variety of places including Nest's online site, the Apple store,
big box retailers like Best Buys and Lowe's and Amazon, among
others.
The Nook, Kindle, Kobo, and Sony enjoy being stocked at some of the leading
big box retailers like Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Futureshop, and many
others.
Like other parts of the American economy,
retailing has increasingly coalesced into
big box discount stores, chains of stores in hundreds of malls around the country, and favoring the products of the
biggest manufacturers.
Let's start with the
big -
box discounters, which came into being at the same time
other retail channels were expanding (
like WalMart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's).
As
big -
box stores move into neighborhoods with small independent
retailers, becoming an integral part of local communities is key for her store and
others like it, Lacy says.
Other notable
big -
box retailers,
like Sports Authority, Circuit City, and RadioShack, have already left vacant storefronts.