Tablet Central Arrives via Retail 2.0
As the market evolves, so does our product selection and Retail 2.0 integration. Recently, TabletCentral centers have been opening in TigerDirect.com and CompUSA retail stores. These dedicated areas provide you a wide selection of tablets with which you can interact and hold, lift up, even watch a video from the web!
The Retail 2.0 integration of Tablet Central provides product information via the touchscreen on the rear of the display, or by lifting an item from it’s resting position. Once you have the product information on the screen, you can scan a QR code with your phone to get the product information to review later, review recommended accessories for the product, even compare several devices against each other with consistent specification data to assist shoppers in making a purchasing decision.
Read MoreArlington Texas CompUSA Now Open!
An all-new CompUSA has opened in Arlington, Texas! We welcome the new CompUSA Team members to our family – and hope you will stop by and see them too! The Arlington location is fully equipped with Retail 2.0 to provide an information rich environment.
The new store is located at:
Check back for more details on the Arlington Texas opening or click here for more information on the Arlington location.
Read MoreHP Business Resource Centers – Powered by Retail 2.0
CompUSA and HP announced the opening of two HP Business Resource Centers, stores situated inside two existing CompUSA retail locations in South Florida: Miami-Dadeland and Plantation. Featuring the full scope of HP products for small-to-medium-sized businesses, the centers provide small- and medium-sized business owners and managers with the opportunity to enjoy a hands-on experience with products and solutions designed to help them manage, protect and grow their companies.
“It is very gratifying to partner with a company of HP’s stature for these unique stores, the first of their kind in North America. CompUSA visitors already include a number of small and medium-sized business owners. We hope that they will find their visits to our stores to be even more rewarding as they can now browse not only our huge selection of computers, computer products, HDTVs and electronics, but also a full slate of HP commercial products and solutions, presented in state-of-the-art interactive displays. We invite small business owners across Miami to come out and see what HP has on offer at CompUSA at our grand opening celebration.”
Read MoreTWICE reports on Pembroke Pines CompUSA
Twice (This Week In CE) reported today on the latest CompUSA to open, in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Read MoreThe latest addition, located here near Fort Lauderdale, is the first CompUSA store to be built to the company’s new Retail 2.0 spec. The interactive platform links product displays to dedicated Web pages, allowing shoppers to glean detailed product information from dedicated computer terminals. Three other Florida stores, in Miami-Dadeland, Plantation and North Lake, were previously converted to Retail 2.0, and Systemax plans to retrofit the remaining 12 Florida locations by years’ end.
“Our opening of the new Pembroke Pines location is a reflection of overwhelming demand from our Floridian customers. The Pembroke Pines outlet is the first CompUSA store to be Retail 2.0-enabled from day one, in the spirit of providing more South Florida computer and electronics shoppers with an in-store experience not available anywhere else, with unbeatable prices to boot.”
CR Electronics: Why electronics stores “suck”
The shopping experience at walk-in electronics stores “sucks,” according to a keynote speech at the recent Consumer Electronics Association conference in New York.
No, that messenger wasn’t me or someone else from Consumer Reports, talking about how our Ratings of places to buy computers and other major electronics items reveal that satisfaction with brick-and-mortar stores lags behind that for online retailers.
Instead, the observation came from someone with firsthand knowledge of electronics retailing: The relatively-new owner of CompUSA’s stores and Web site and of the TigerDirect.com and newly-relaunched CircuitCity.com Web sites, too.
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