Best Buy has added Apple computers in seven stores and it's considering expanding Mac sales across the chain, Best Buy Senior Vice President for Merchandising David Morrish said at the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.
Best Buy stopped selling Apple computers in 1998 because of slow sales, and soon after Apple pulled out of most retailers. It later rebuilt its retail operation by opening its own stores, and now has 133 in the U.S., compared with 754 for Best Buy.
Apple currently has less than 5 percent of the U.S. computer market but is trying to raise that, and the potential of selling in every Best Buy store would be help it achieve that, he said.
One pitfall for Apple would be that it could end up giving away sales it would have rung up at its own stores.
But Bhavnani said most of Apple's stores are in malls, and they tend to grab spur-of-the-moment walk-in traffic. Best Buy runs mostly stand-alone stores that people make a point of driving to, he said.
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I was so excited to hear this! As a huge Mac fan, it is dissappointing to not be able to just walk in a store and grab some new accesories or software for my Mac. There are no Apple stores in my 3,000 population town. I just never could understand why stores wouldnt sell any Mac products. People out there have them, hello! Now with Ipods being so huge, and the new release of Apple computers that can run Windows and Mac OS X, who needs a PC?? And those commercials are great too.
I wonder if this has anything to do w IPOD's being so popular, that it could help sell the MAC
I know, thats what I'm saying.