Best Buy To Peddle Gateway Gear

11 Jun, 2004 at 4:00pm ET Article published in Tech

Comments

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   12 Jun 2004 ~ 3:38am TheBaron so when Gateway's store revenues were so low that they had to shut them all down, Best Buy decided that they were a good investment??? great ****ing idea
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   12 Jun 2004 ~ 4:15am qparadox Err well its a lot harder to get enough sales only selling one brand. Best Buy has a lot more consumer pull and Gateway will just be another one the brands it stocks. THere should be some sweet deals on the Gateway stuff
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   12 Jun 2004 ~ 8:34am Leonardo What Best Buy means to Gateway is not so much product endorsement but floor traffic and exposure. This is a huge move for Gateway. From soup to wrenches, manufacturers fight to get their products on the shelves in big-name stores.
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   13 Jun 2004 ~ 12:24am muddocktor

   Leonardo wrote:

   What Best Buy means to Gateway is not so much product endorsement but floor traffic and exposure. This is a huge move for Gateway. From soup to wrenches, manufacturers fight to get their products on the shelves in big-name stores.

   
   And also this way Gateway still has store presense around the country without the huge overhead involved with having their own line of stores selling their products.