{"id":25075,"date":"2012-01-04T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/gradually-then-suddenly.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:12:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:12:51","slug":"gradually-then-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/gradually-then-suddenly.html","title":{"rendered":"Gradually, Then Suddenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very believable article about why Best Buy is losing &#8230; going out of business.  And the answer is that &quot;Amazon doesn&#39;t pay sales tax.&quot;  It&#39;s that &quot;Amazon takes care of the customer, and Best Buy doesn&#39;t.&quot; #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Flarrydownes%2Ffiles%2F2012%2F01%2Fbest-buy-300x225.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrydownes\/2012\/01\/02\/why-best-buy-is-going-out-of-business-gradually\/'>Why Best Buy is Going out of Business&#8230;Gradually &#8211; Forbes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConsumer electronics retailer Best Buy is doing everything wrong.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very believable article about why Best Buy is losing &#8230; going out of business. And the answer is that &quot;Amazon doesn&#39;t pay sales tax.&quot; It&#39;s that &quot;Amazon takes care of the customer, and Best Buy doesn&#39;t.&quot; #ddtb Embedded Link Why Best Buy is Going out of Business&#8230;Gradually &#8211; Forbes Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/gradually-then-suddenly.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gradually, Then Suddenly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":25075,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":25075,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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