Posted on 04/07/2017 10:23:08 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
Well, as you said; amazon is getting the lion’s share, and home apppliances are selling more through Lowes and Home Depot. Brick and mortar dedicated to those items just doesn’t cut it anymore.
How soon before the food poisoning starts from people failing to clean their 3D food printers?
We get Gregg ad inserts in our newspaper. I don’t know where the store is and curiously, the multipage ad insert doesn’t say
This is why Amazon should buy Best Buy. They can legitimately BE Amazon’s showroom - where you can take it with you today, if you want. Best Buy cannot last as a competitor.
Over priced items, more so than Best Buy, very limited selections. That will stop attracting customers who have other choices of where to shop. Best Buy even honors Amazon prices if the product is sold only by Amazon, not third party. Got hubby’s sound bar system 2 years ago that way, saved about $75. He was happy to walk out with it for the lesser price. As seniors money does matter.
When I shop Amazon I use gift cards, not my Discover, I buy them at Kroger’s on Discover 1% back, for double or 4 times the gas points. Which is in effect for about 2 weeks now. That $250 Lowe’s gift card equal $1 per gal off gas, per 35 gal tank fill. Any left over we don’t use our kids get, they appreciate even a .50 cent off on a gal for a tank fill.
Mom, Father day they will run the same thing. Christmas that is all I buy 10 mins and my Christmas shopping is done with out setting foot in a mall they can do their own shopping and choosing. 6 Grands, 7th on the way, 6th G Grand on the way. Which will only continue to grow, as the 20’ish adult grands keep surprising us with more.
A Best Buy is now in the building where our Service Merchandise Store was. I did a lot of shopping at Service Merchandise.
Not too long ago I read a surprising comment about Service Merchandise—maybe it was here?—that they made an honest effort at developing an online service, but somebody high up in the company—maybe even the CEO himself?—was sabotaging the project from the get-go.
3D printers don’t print, printing is the process of putting ink on paper. But I suppose that calling it a computer aided heat malleable polymer additive manufacturing mill wouldn’t catch on quite as well as calling it a 3D printer.
I miss Service Merchandise
There's the reason. People want selection and low prices. If your store doesn't offer that, then you're doomed to close.
Free shipping on any purchase over $50 at Amazon has put the kibosh on a lot of retailers...nowadays these retail outlets only serve as a physical display and then the purchaser orders it online for a cheaper price.
It was here, on one of the “Sears is slowly bleeding out” threads. It’s astonishing how every single one of the catalog giants completely screwed up the transition to the internet.
Thanks, good to know my memory wasn’t going!
The mess reminds me a little of how the great locomotive builders just couldn’t make the transition from steam to diesel, until General Motors was eating their lunch and it was too late to recover.
Sears would never be able to crush Amazon.
I’m an Amazon Prime member so shipping is free. Once I get a package [yesterday], I start a new order. Today, I started an order to buy a plug for the tub, a 5 pound bag of polenta from Italy, a pricy pair of boots that Nordstrom ran out of, a paint scraper, a 100 pack or red solo cups at an incredible price and 2 bestseller novels.
No matter what type of thing I need, clothing, books, hardware, grocery ... I just put it on my next order. Need spool of orange thread? Bingo!
Not too many stores can cover all the bases, but the do it easily and get the packages to you in record time. I think that’s why they do deliveries until 11PM.
Actually, Sears could very well have crushed Amazon. Amazon started out as an online bookseller and expanded into other goods. Had Sears actually figured out that the internet was a logical extension of their catalog sales, they could have dominated the internet market space to the point where Amazon would never have gone beyond an online bookseller.
Sears can’t do that any more, but that doesn’t change the fact that they could very easily have done it, didn’t and now they’re paying the price for their continued stupidity.
I bought the PC I’m using right now at hhgregg. They had a good sale and I knew what I was getting. I went in several other times when we were shopping for cameras and appliances and could get nobody to answer any questions - the in store help were as clueless as clams. I bought elsewhere. Won’t miss them.
Me too,just bought a very large TV there.Thought they were there to stay.
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