Best Buy To Peddle Gateway Gear

KingFishKingFish
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
Gateway will establish what could become its retail beachhead later this month, when Best Buy begins selling a limited amount of Gateway-brand consumer electronics gear.
Best Buy will sell Gateway-brand MP3 players, LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs and home theater equipment left over from the PC maker's retail stores, which closed in April. Some of the goods will appear online only, while others will also be sold in Best Buy stores, a Gateway spokesman said.
Source: ZDNet

Comments

  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    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
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited June 2004
    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
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    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.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    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.
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