In an effort to obtain customer feedback about potential new products, Best Buy sent out a survey to customers wherein the retailing giant makes reference to a 42-inch Apple HDTV. The big box wants to know how you feel about it based on some proposed promotional verbiage which boasts that “Apple finally reinvents what a […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Comments Off on Use Siri to compare and explore items at Best Buy
One of the smarter things Apple did when it integrated Siri into the iPhone 4S was to limit its functionality. Indeed, Siri as we know it today is a lot less powerful than its original incarnation as an iPhone app. While this may initially seem like a backwards move on Apple’s part, it actually works […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Comments Off on Best Buy selling iTunes gift cards at 15% off
It’s not quite as good as the deal Walmart recently had, but bargain shoppers might be glad to now that Best Buy is currently running a 15% off sale across their entire line of iTunes gift cards. Interested shoppers can pick up a $15 gift card for $12.75, a $50 card for $42.50, and so […]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Comments Off on Apple.com on Black Friday was fifth most visited retail website
Apple this past Friday reportedly enjoyed its best single day sales period ever. All before 7 PM no less. With its strongest product lineup in history, not to mention more Apple retail stores than ever, one might say that the stars this holiday shopping season are aligning in Apple’s favor. Highlighting Apple’s growing popularity, recently […]
Continue reading...Monday, November 28, 2011
Comments Off on Best Buy ad touts “all the hottest Apple gifts”
If competing with retailers like Best Buy is Apple’s biggest problem this holiday season, well, it’s fair to say that they’re sitting pretty. The the entire thrust of the Best Buy commercial below is that Best Buy has any Apple product you’d find at an Apple retail store, so why not hop on down to […]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 16, 2011
Comments Off on Best Buy to kick off nationwide iPad 2 campaign tomorrow
Well, it appears that those reports about Apple banning Best Buy from selling the iPad 2 were completely off base. Indeed, iPad shortages at Best Buy at the time were subsequently explained away with talk of an upcoming iPad 2 promotion at the nationwide electronics retailer. Now, a week or so later comes a leaked […]
Continue reading...Friday, April 8, 2011
Comments Off on Did Apple Ban Best Buy from selling the iPad 2?
There’s trouble afoot at Best Buy. Word on the web is that Apple has forbidden Best Buy from selling the iPad 2 due to some shenanigans from the nationwide electronics retailer. CrunchGear is reporting that Best Buy stores came up with an artificial daily quota of iPads to sell, and once this number was reached, […]
Continue reading...Monday, March 7, 2011
Comments Off on Is Best Buy planning to give its entire sales staff iPads?
In an effort to push its vision of a “connected world” to the forefront, Best Buy is reportedly planning to give its sales staff iPads. Forbes writes: A source with knowledge of corporate mobile device deployments tells Forbesthat one of the country’s top 10 largest retailers expects to distribute iPads to each of its on-floor sales […]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 3, 2011
Comments Off on Best Buy, Sam’s Club, and Walmart will have the iPad 2 on launch day
Best Buy is already advertising that it will carry the iPad 2 on March 11, and 9to5Mac is reporting that Sam’s Club and Walmart will be selling Apple’s next-gen tablet on launch day as well.
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Comments Off on Best Buy to offer the Verizon iPhone
Best Buy today announced today that it will be selling the Verizon iPhone at stores nationwide beginning on February 10. Remember, pre-orders for the device start tomorrow! “The iPhone 4 is an important device for Best Buy and we are excited to help Apple and Verizon Wireless bring it to even more consumers,” said Shawn Score, president […]
Continue reading...Monday, January 10, 2011
Comments Off on Apple section at Best Buy stores to expand – Report
Tuaw reports: An anonymous tipster who works at a Best Buy store let us know this morning that he was informed by his Apple rep that the Apple section of the computer department will be going through a transition sometime this Spring to allow more products to be displayed. At the same time, the stores […]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Comments Off on Best Buy to offer Black Friday $125 gift cards for select Mac purchases
Black Friday is about 2 days away, and folks are already strategizing what stores to hit as to snag those crazy deals for HDTV’s, printers, and an assortment of other electronic goodies. You won’t typically find Apple products at the forefront of any insanely great Friday after Thanksgiving sales, but Best Buy does have an […]
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Comments Off on Best Buy survey references 42-inch Apple HDTV