It has been almost 1 year since we lost our BBY contact... 8 years and we get dumped for an internal system with 60 days notice.
Having see the inner workings the place is a bloated mess. So many egos and people trying to do this and that and successful things getting canned for politics and failed items getting promoted. The demise was written on the wall many years ago and they will end up going to way of Circuit City sooner then later. -J.J. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Best Buy Forced to Rethink Big BoxJ > > > Best Buy Co., BBY -6.95% which once out-muscled rivals with stores as big > as 58,000 square feet, is moving away from the "big box" business model > that it long used to crush competitors in consumer-electronics retailing. > > The electronics giantnow itself being out-manuevered by Internet rivals > with lower operating costsplans several new tactics to improve weak sales. > > On Thursday it said it will close 50 big-box stores this year, and test > remodeled store formats in San Antonio and Minneapolis. It will also lay > off 400 workers as part of a plan to trim $800 million in costs and > restructure its ailing business. > ... > Many analysts said the move to rethink the purpose of Best Buy stores was > long overdue, noting that closing 50 out of 1,100 big stores amounts to a > reduction of just 4.5%. Many had labeled as inadequate Best Buy's previous > pledge to shrink its square footage by 10%. > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303404704577311322427071212.html?mod={%22WSJ_GoogleNews%22,%20%22igoogle_wsj_gadgv1%22} > > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349227 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
