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Best Buy to Provide iPads to All Retail Employees?
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15 years ago electronics stores made a nice profit on the big ticket items. in the late 1990's it changed to selling the big ticket stuff as a loss leader or break even and make money on the warranty or accessories. then you had monoprice and newegg pop up that sell the same accessories except without the brand name and the only reason to go to best buy is to get stuff the day you want it or because they can cut deals to get hot items like the kinect in stock
Best Buy did not run out of iPads before the iPad 2 was announced. My store had (as of yesterday) 3 dozen or so. And Best Buy is participating in the $100 off each model sale.
You use the exception to the rule to provide fortification for your dislike of a retailer.
The Airport Express being $10 more than Apple's online store is not representative of Best Buy's pricing.
Awesome
This is awesome! I was responsible for convincing my fellow executives to vote in favor of getting us connected at my place of employment. We are now even more productive; the iPad is revolutionizing medicine. I am now counting down the days until I can get the iPad 2.
This is awesome! I was responsible for convincing my fellow executives to vote in favor of getting us connected at my place of employment. We are now even more productive; the iPad is revolutionizing medicine. I am now counting down the days until I can get the iPad 2.
You bring up a good point... the future of places like BB???? I know I want to see a product like a TV before I buy. But maybe the stores will be smaller. Less choices and more streamlined? Don't know?
If BB has a good portal for the iPad in the stores, it could be very useful for digging up specs on the spot as well as keeping shopping lists for customer while their being assisted. Could be cool.
I can't promise that iPads are better, but the cost for a couple hundred of those nice printed menus has to be a few thousand dollars at least. The iPad cost might be a little higher but not hugely higher.
As far as Best Buy goes, iPads could be useful to help sell big ticket items like stoves, refrigerators, flat screen TVs and such. The more questions you can answer immediately the better the chance of a sale. Maybe they can also check stock at other stores, delivery times, or show product that is not on display.
Add BB to the list. It's amazing how many businesses and places are using the iPad. There are hundreds now installed in the Delta terminals at Laguardia and JFK airports in NY. They are mounted into tables throughout the terminals for ordering food, entertaining waiting passengers with games, and surfing the internet. I've seen them at numerous hotels now in my travels, installed at the consierge desks, so guests can research dining, shopping and entertainment options. And of course Hyundai includes one with the owner's manual for the Equus car.
Does anyone not see how much of a terrible idea this is? Best Buy already has super crappy customer service. Now, these wanna be know it alls will be walking around with iPads to further their ADD. NO ONE is going to be getting helped in that place!
Not if he hates it.
We use Lexmark printers at my job.
Let me tell you, I will *NEVER* ever recommend Lexmark. The only way you could give me a Lexmark is if that was the only way I could have a printer. Pieces of crap with lazy engineering. For example the old model will reliably jam if you put a full ream of paper in. This is a printer designed for a business so lots of use. You want to be able to put in a full ream or you will be constantly filling the printer. So the new version of the model... how do they fix it? They made it so you couldn't put a full ream of paper in it. It's like the engineering equivalent of putting duct tape to fix the problem (rather than put in a real fix they put in some stop gap). Not only are their printers crap they apparently can't be bothered to actually try to design them to work how they should.
So yeah, that only works if you make a good product.
Right...depends on the use case, the restaurant, how often the menu changes (not just "specials"), clientelle, etc.
I would like to know the justification/purpose of giving 180,000 employees iPads...is it for personal use? Work use? Will they take them home? If not, does each employee have his/her own or do they just grab one from the bin every morning? Lots of questions.
I still can't see each employee having one for work...seriously...if I had to carry around an iPad (or similar) for 6-8 hours every day ALL DAY LONG I would quickly lose it or break it. It's not a pen. It's not a pad of paper.
I doubt BB is giving these out to employees to own. I would imagine them being in store for use, like the inventory scanners, or the computer terminals used within the store already to check inventory for customers. Only now, the employee wouldn't have to leave the customer to check price or stock.
It would be interesting to know who within Forbes, Apple owns, in the same way they own Walt Mossberg. While it's "just another story" to the mainstream consumer, the love fest here in the forum is rather extensive.
There's a huge number of iPad owners feeling even better about themselves tonight.
It's this intrinsic connection between fanboys and their inanimate Apple stuff that's so flippin funny. Some are so "in love" they call their Apple stuff "sexy."
Now that's one very bizarre viewpoint.
There's a huge number of iPad owners feeling even better about themselves tonight.
It's this intrinsic connection between fanboys and their inanimate Apple stuff that's so flippin funny. Some are so "in love" they call their Apple stuff "sexy."
Now that's one very bizarre viewpoint.
this is a little off topic, but i recently stayed at the plaza hotel in new york city and each room had an ipad that controlled the lights and temperature of the room. i thought it was totally awesome! here's a pic of it i took:
Have you even used one?
I have seen them but seems to only look good in commercials and laggy also. Costco had one on to play with one world came to mind "Not".
Don't do that, you know breaking people's fantasy. What else do they have?
Your right about call back in 3 to 5 years to be taken serious with 4G.
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And this is surprising...why? We are all on an Apple Forum after all. Obviously there are going to be a lot more Apple lovers on here than you may encounter in the real world.
>Best Buy
They can go die in a fire.
Oh and to everyone planning to buy their iPad at BB, get it but *DO NOT* get the Black Tie warranty they offer, it's a scam. You get your iPad, and BB makes no money.
Sincerely,
A disgruntled former employee
They can go die in a fire.
Oh and to everyone planning to buy their iPad at BB, get it but *DO NOT* get the Black Tie warranty they offer, it's a scam.
You get your iPad, and BB makes no money.Sincerely,
A disgruntled former employee
This is so lame
imagine scenario 1.
customer: Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee: Piss off, I'm busy. See that guy over there, without the ipad, the new guy, see him..... HIGH SCORE!!!!
scenario 2
customer:Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee:Oh yeah, err, {fumbles with ipad in one hand and other hand trying to grip the [whatever] appliance. Drops either one or both}
scenario 3
customer:Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee:sure. I'll just put my ipad down over here.. blah blah blah.. hey were the **** is my ipad????
imagine scenario 1.
customer: Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee: Piss off, I'm busy. See that guy over there, without the ipad, the new guy, see him..... HIGH SCORE!!!!
scenario 2
customer:Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee:Oh yeah, err, {fumbles with ipad in one hand and other hand trying to grip the [whatever] appliance. Drops either one or both}
scenario 3
customer:Oh excuse me, can you help me with this [appliance/box/whatever]
employee:sure. I'll just put my ipad down over here.. blah blah blah.. hey were the **** is my ipad????