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Best Buy Investors Should Be Concerned About Browsing Trend
Submitted by Investing Daily as part of our contributors program . If there’s one word that strikes fear into the hearts of brick-and-mortar retailers, it’s “showrooming.” That’s where customers come into the stor...
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The Bear Case for Best Buy in One Simple Chart
Submitted by Wall St. Daily as part of our contributors program . Americans quickly transitioned from gobbling up turkeys to gobbling up the deals at their favorite retail stores. According to the National Retail Federation, 139 million unique ...
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Three Retailers That Should Be Thankful They Are Still in Business This Thanksgiving
Submitted by Sizemore Investment Letter as part of our contributors program This is the time of year for giving thanks, and we all have quite a bit to be thankful for. Though we complain about having a divided country, we live in a place where ...
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Are Exploding Online Holiday Sales A Sign Of Good Things To Come?
This Thanksgiving holiday weekend witnessed a dramatic rise in online traffic on websites of retail majors. The trend is unmistakable. While e-commerce accounts for less than 10% of consumer spending right now, it is growing at a much faster rate...
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Best Buy Suffers From A Perfect Storm Of Weaker Margins And Sales
Electronics retailing giant Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) announced its Q3 results on November 20. The results were disappointing as the company announced an unexpected net loss and weaker results than the company’s guidance in October. Management p...
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Best Buy’s Earnings: Still Facing Showrooming And Product Mix Challenges
Electronics retailing giant Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) will announce its Q3 results on November 20. The company has been in news in the last few months for a number of reasons. It appointed Hubert Joly as the new CEO of the company and Sharon McCollam ...
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Best Buy Stores Match Amazon’s Prices To Tackle Showrooming
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has announced that it will match the lower prices offered by Amazon and other online retailers in its brick-and-mortar stores. It will also offer free shipping for items which customers find out-of-stock in its stores. While t...
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Best Buy Continues To Diversify By Selling Geek Squad Services
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), in a bid to open a new stream of revenues, has tied up with eBay and Target to offer their customers the services of its well-known Geek Squad personnel. eBay has added service plans on its website for customers wishing to av...
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Why Best Buy Is Still Worth $25
Best Buy ‘s (NYSE:BBY) stock has suffered by adverse industry trends which are increasingly squeezing its legacy business model. The stock had slumped since mid-August when the company announced that it would no longer provide profit outloo...
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Will A New CEO Solve RadioShack’s Problems?
RadioShack (NYSE:RSH) announced that its Chief Executive Officer, James F. Gooch, is stepping down after 16 months on the job. The company board decided that the time was right to make this decision. It felt that Gooch was not the right person to...
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Best Buy Looks To Steamroll RadioShack With Small Store Shift
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has decided to shift its focus to operating small-format stores, even as it closes and shrinks big-box locations to reverse declining same-store sales. The number of small-format Best Buy stores is expected to reach 800 in the...
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Best Buy Q2 Profits Decline As It Struggles With Competition And Economic Slowdown
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) recently announced its Q2 results with approximately 90% decline in net income compared to Q2 2012. Like other brick and mortal retailers, Best Buy is struggling with increased competition from online retailers as well as the ...
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The Best Dividend Contenders By Free Cash Flow
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Best Dividend Contenders With Cheapest Free Cash flow ratios Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment . Dividend Contenders are stocks with a conse...
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Best Buy Digs Out Of Its Hole By Investing In Big Trends
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), which has been little slow in responding to intensifying competition and shifting consumer trends, has refocused its resources on several initiatives. With the dominance of the online retailers like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and ...
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Best Buy Wants To Fight Showrooming With Improved Service
In order to stay ahead in the competitive retail environment, Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has decided to invest in improving customer service experience for its customers. The retailer has decided to provide better training to about 50,000 employees and,...
