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.

Tablet Central – Retail 2.0 Gallery

The new store is located at:

1600 Interstate 20 W

Arlington, TX 76017

Check back for more details on the Arlington Texas opening or click here for more information on the Arlington location.

“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.”

The HP Business Resource Center experience is further enhanced with the new HP Virtual Sales Consultant that enables customers to connect directly with an HP expert. This web-based video chat enables customers to instantly talk live, via webcam, with an HP small- and medium-sized business expert about the HP business solutions and products featured in the store, plus the overall HP business product portfolio.

“HP’s in-store presence is about being where customers want to buy; showing them solutions that help them manage, protect and grow their businesses; and supporting them with an exceptional experience that includes access to HP professionals,” said Kathy Chou, Vice President of Worldwide Small and Midsize Business Strategy and Commercial Sales at HP. “We call this philosophy HP Total Care and we are delighted to extend this experience to South Florida businesses with our HP Business Resource Centers in CompUSA.”

Grand Opening Celebration

The grand opening of the new HP store at the Miami-Dadeland CompUSA will be held on-site on the evening of Tuesday, December 8, 6:30pm-9:00pm:

The ComputerTV crew of tech professionals and on-screen hosts will be on-site, covering the event and conducting giveaways and contests. Those who cannot make it in-person can visit http://com.puter.tv/ to enjoy it, live. The event will also be simulcast by ComputerTV at other CompUSA locations throughout 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. 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.”

The new Pembroke Pines CompUSA is located at 10121 Pines Boulevard, Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
Hours of operation are Monday – Friday 10AM – 9PM; Saturday 9AM – 9PM; Sunday 10AM – 6PM

Source: Twice

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.

Source: Consumer Reports