{"id":30580,"date":"2012-10-15T19:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/best-buy-tries-to-be-the-best-buy.html"},"modified":"2012-10-16T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:45:30","slug":"best-buy-tries-to-be-the-best-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/best-buy-tries-to-be-the-best-buy.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy tries to be the best buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy must try to match prices with online competitors like Amazon, even with the overhead costs (which they are constantly trying to reduce). \u00a0I do hope they succeed; for all I have had some awful customer service experiences there, I think we&#39;re all better off with Best Buy as a bricks-and-mortar\u00a0competitor to Amazon, et al.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>)<\/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='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fconsumermediallc.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F10%2Fbestbuyuk.jpg%3Fw%3D610' 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:\/\/consumerist.com\/2012\/10\/12\/best-buy-to-price-match-online-competitors\/'>Best Buy To Price-Match Online Competitors \u2013 The Consumerist<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBest Buy has already said that it intends on dropping its prices on BestBuy.com to better compete against Amazon and other online retailers, but now comes word that the electronics chain plans on actu&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/GQuMhAFcBMU' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy must try to match prices with online competitors like Amazon, even with the overhead costs (which they are constantly trying to reduce). \u00a0I do hope they succeed; for all I have had some awful customer service experiences there, I think we&#39;re all better off with Best Buy as a bricks-and-mortar\u00a0competitor to Amazon, et &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/15\/best-buy-tries-to-be-the-best-buy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Buy tries to be the best buy&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[],"class_list":["post-30580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25075,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/gradually-then-suddenly.html","url_meta":{"origin":30580,"position":0},"title":"Gradually, Then Suddenly","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A very believable article about why Best Buy is losing ... going out of business. 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