<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>We order enough computer and other stuff that I got the company to pay for Amazon Prime, which gives me free 2-day shipping. I found I'd usually procrastinate at least 2 days going to a brick-and-mortar store unless it's an emergency anyway--even one on the way to or from work :-) The nice thing is I still get the free shipping on my personal Amazon orders too because it's tied to the account, not the business.<div><br></div><div>We do sometimes buy from local stores like GIM Computers even when it's not strictly necessary, though. It'd be a shame for the handy, reasonably well stocked and reasonably priced store to go out of business because sometimes you really need to go and get that drive or memory right now! <br><br>Scott<br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jay Lozier" <jslozier@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:09:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Google Nexus Table 16 GB<br><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/15/2012 12:44 PM, Brian Stanaland
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<blockquote cite="mid:CAFc0yP1HRPQ3TwbZPtiJVtzHHYgNWfijXWsW0AN+44u5kymuNw@mail.gmail.com">Certain kinds of retail will be fine. Specialty (aimed
at teenagers who can't stand having 20 bucks in their pocket)
clothing lines at the mall. Some Mom and Pop shops if they're in
the right place. Regardless, it doesn't pay to be an electonics
retailer right now. Amazon (anything under the sun) and Walmart
(sometimes questionable quality but take it home now) take the
bulk of those. If you can make yourself stand out with service
you'll be ok. Not many stores care to even try though. I think
Fry's does well because you can't get capacitors and such from
Radio Shack anymore. <br>
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Retail is changing. Online retailers are very similar to catalog
sales of yesterday. You can see a picture, read a description, etc.
but can not handle/try on. This works extremely well for a many
types of products but not all or if you need specific information.
One major difference is that store inventory is immediate pickup
while online requires at least 1 day delivery which can get pricey.
The other major difference is that online operations can have more
types of items in inventory than a store could ever have.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim
Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span>
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retail is dying a slow death. With the advent of Amazon same
day<br>
delivery, more big-box retail will be pick up places for
online<br>
orders. Walmart.com has stuff at better discounts than same
item in<br>
store. But you can get it delivered to the store for free.
It's not<br>
assembled from store inventory and put aside for you like
Microcenter<br>
in-store pickup.<br>
<br>
Pity the kids in school who think they can work at the mall
and earn<br>
enough to move out of parents house.<br>
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> On 08/15/2012 10:11 AM, david w. millians wrote:<br>
>> On 8/14/2012 4:19 PM, Michael Campbell wrote:<br>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Lightner,
Jeff <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
>>>> Why is it every time you go to a store
these days they tell you “we can<br>
>>>> order that for you” rather than keeping
things in stock?<br>
>>> Because inventory is a liability.<br>
>> Apparently, they haven't realized the loss of
customers is also a liability.<br>
> +1 - loss of customers liability >> inventory
liability<br>
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