Best Buy to sell Macs in 200 U.S. stores
updated 01:00 pm EDT, Wed April 4, 2007
Best Buy expands Mac pilot
Brick-and-mortar retail giant Best Buy is for the second time expanding a pilot program that began in late May of last year, bringing Apple computers to 200 of its stores by this fall. "We'll be expanding our relationship with Apple in 2007," said Best Buy president Brian Dunn during the company's latest earnings conference call. "We'll be offering Apple computers in 200 stores by this fall." The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer began with a select number of stores to test drive selling Mac systems, which grew to 50 stores across the U.S. in mid-October. The most recent pilot expansion reveals the success of its predecessors, increasing the exposure of Mac computers at Best Buy locations by three-fold. Circuit City also said it would begin selling Macs in a small number of its stores in the Eastern U.S. in early September to test the waters of Mac sales in its retail outlets.
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My Local Best Buy (southern New Jersey) sells Macs . Although they are displayed a bit away from other computers (next ailse over, closer to the big screen TV) they are prominently displayed. The sales staff was knowledgeable as well. They knew about parallels and boot camp as well as Photoshop not running natively until spring 2007. They did not have any towers, though. They focused primarily on imacs and mac minis (for obvious reasons). Of course, there is an Apple store about five miles away, so I was curious about the sales...but they would not provide me that information.