The writing is on the wall with these stores that don’t even know where the clearance items they feature on line are when you show up at the store with evidence that they have these items in stock on the web from their inventory system. CompUSA’s failure proved that this kind of retail store is doomed even with good, knowledgeable staff. With the uninterested fast food staff they have, they are done. The fact is, though, they have to find a way to succeed because these stores in many communities represents the only path to the middle class through technology. Their small focused kiosks and micro stores like Best Buy Mobile probably do a better margin than the giant warehouses where people are ironically given too many choices with little substantial guidance. My favorite Best Buy apparition are the gadget dispenser in airports where you can purchase some fun without the hassle of parking, wandering around a converted aircraft hangar, asking questions of semiliterates blue polo shirts. I would reorganize the stores into half the size with focus (Best Buy Nest, Best Buy Dorm, Best Buy Man Cave, Best Buy Obsessive Compulsive Cleaner), curate the stock to best of breed, and educate the staff -create technology academies where they can work to associates and bachelor degrees in electrician technology, computer repair, software engineering, electrical engineering, and business management, open to the public for a fee. They have to start thinking out of the big box or they will be extincted.
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Eminently readable. Looks like it was inspired by the Microsoft web mail page, yes, yes, but I like it. Thank you all for reading and happy new year.

There must be some sociology term for this cultural mile marker. Use tools -check. Make fire -check. Roll wheels – check. Have Madonna dance over your prone body -check byatches! Yup. All of Korea was lying there on stage with Psy.

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• No longer just for overweight, angry men. 
• Should be hand tied
• Should be worn without irony.
• Should be worn from the get-go, meaning from the time you start wearing ties. A late start brings on questions about mid-life crises, neo-retro hip-to-be-squareness, and excessive fanciness.
• No longer just for skinny, old, popcorn selling men. 
• More hygienic than neckties, especially when inspecting gangrenous feet. 
• There can only be one. Too many bow tie wearers in a group makes people uneasy. 
• Avoid wearing with floppy hat, green wax cotton coats, and wellies because then you look like Paddington bear. 
• Worn properly, you’ll get taken very, very seriously. Very few people can pull it off properly.