Posts Tagged ‘retail 2.0’
Arlington Texas CompUSA Now Open!
Posted by: CompUSA in Retail 2.0 Updates on May 29th, 2010
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.
TWICE reports on Pembroke Pines CompUSA
Posted by: CompUSA in In The Press, Retail 2.0 Updates on August 19th, 2009
Twice (This Week In CE) reported today on the latest CompUSA to open, in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
The 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,” said Gilbert Fiorentino, chief executive of Systemax’s technology products group. “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”
Posted by: CompUSA in In The Press on June 28th, 2009
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. Read the rest of this entry »
