TECHdodo

I just read an interesting article about a topic I hadn’t really thought of before. I live and work in the tech world. Most of the people I know do too, or at least did until quite recently. That is why this article caught my eye. It was about the latest headlines in the news [...]

Knowledgeable employees One reason to shop at a local retail store, instead of online, is the ability to get answers to questions you may have about different items. What makes this TV cost twice as much as this TV? Which one has the best on screen programming guide? Can you show me the difference between [...]

The Selection Factor One of the problems with retail stores is selection, or lack thereof. One time,  as we were wandering through a giant retail warehouse type store, a friend of mine put it to me this way. They have a whole lot of not very much. So many of these stores now are so [...]

Prices One problem Retail stores have over shopping online is price. Online stores have lower overhead, and they are able to use that advantage to sell things cheaper online. Online stores do, however, have a comparative disadvantage. Every item they sell has to be sent individually to the customer. Therefore, every item has an additional [...]

Over the holidays, I had a few frustrating experiences with retail stores and it made me ask the question, as it has in the past, why are they surprised they are going out of business? The other day on the radio, I heard that after the horrible retail season this year, as many as 200,000 [...]