A Best Buy Express vending machine.Syracuse, NY -- Best Buy is spinning off Best Buy Mobile stores, with one landing in Carousel Center mall. Here's what the consumer electronics giant has up its sleeve now. Read on...
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MINNEAPOLIS — Best Buy Co.’s Best Buy Express plans to add nearly 100 kiosk locations in the next year spread over a variety of new channels.
The division has opened 150 Express locations in three years, and said it is adding two locations at Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, Calif., and multiple locations at college campuses, events and ferry hubs this year.
Best Buy Express is a self-serve kiosk solution offering consumer electronics at Best Buy prices. With locations in airports, train stations, casinos and turnpike rest stops, Best Buy Express sells such products as computer accessories, digital cameras, storage devices and headphones through strategically located kiosks.
"The arrival of our self-serve kiosks at Disney is a testament to the continued growth of Best Buy Express," said Julie St. Marie, business leader of Best Buy Express.
And the worm turns. Many retailers who built and grew on megastores are going in the opposite direction these days and finding success. Count the nation's largest retailer,
Walmart
, among them.
Best Buy Express is taking smaller retailing formats down to the micro level. Consumer-electronics vending machines have found success in department stores that long ago eliminated electronics departments as the likes of Best Buy began prevailing. But there's still cash in those tiny electronics that can drop from a vending machine. And Best Buy is an expert at delivering on consumer electronics.
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