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Target Will Stop Selling Kindles Due to Amazon App Practices in Stores

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:18:59 +0000

Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers of Kindles in the offline world, though most of the devices are sold at Amazon’s Web site. Like other big retailers, Target has been trying to figure out how to stop Amazon shoppers from visiting Target stores to check out products, and then buy them online from Amazon. It is a practice encouraged by Amazon; over the Christmas holiday, for example, the company offered a promotion on its Price Check app that gave shoppers 5 percent off any item scanned at a store. commentary:

More details have come out signalling loud and clear why Target is dropping Amazon’s Kindle and related items from Target stores. Seems this brick and mortar retailer is fed up with Amazon openly touting their competitive advantage to Target’s shoppers while in Target’s stores!

The Amazon Mobile App allows shoppers to scan a product in a retailer and quickly check and see if it is cheaper at Amazon. Target hints that Amazon should carry different inventory or something, which is not likely to happen unless Target starts demanding different products from its vendors, a practice...

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Target Ends Amazon Kindle Relationship – Where there’s Smoke?

Brett Bumeter — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:07:24 +0000

Target will soon stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, the retailer confirmed Wednesday. The Kindle was an apparent hit for Target: The company said last year that the just-launched Kindle Fire was Target's bestselling tablet on Black Friday. Target would not comment on the reason for the Kindle's elimination, saying only "we typically don't discuss our relationships with vendor partners." Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) did not immediately reply to a request for comment. commentary:

Target and Amazon have come a long way together since the days back when Target needed help running their online presence, but it would seem that something has gone significantly wrong in the relationship for them to nuke a successful product from the shelves. Now if this were a dog of a seller it might be a different scenario.

*Disclaimer – I bought my mother a Kindle from Target for her birthday once, but stopped buying from them due to their endorsement of political campaigns targeting the LGBT community.

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Apple’s Premium Hinges on Cool: Can the iPad Rot that Core?

Brett Bumeter — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:06:00 +0000

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For decades now, Apple has achieved notoriety and buzz and lots of synergy through marketing campaigns from first, being cool and second being easier to use than cheaper PC products or more entrenched MP3 player or cell phone brands. Apple helped make it cool to buy a personal computer in the 80’s, and then they made it cool to not only buy an MP3 player, but actually PAY for an MP3 file. Apple even through...

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Upgrading RCA Pearl TH1611 Firmware for AAC

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:03:00 +0000

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Sometimes the best technology gadgets are not the most expensive, take the RCA Pearl TH1611. It is a little MP3 player that runs on a single triple aaa battery. It gets hours and hours of play. Much to the surprise of most people RCA actually came out with the first MP3 player, which I owned way back in the dark ages before iPods. It was the Lyra and with a really large card it could hold a whopping 48 megabytes of music.

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CES Pulls Out a Higher Attendance – Possibly Last Minute

Brett Bumeter — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:12:59 +0000

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CES attendance has been dipping from its highs of past years. This year did not recoup the attendance of years past, but it did happen to top last year at least during the first 2 days of the show, which are typically the busiest.

Gary Shapiro, president/CEO of CEA, said total attendance by the end of Day 2 was 112,515, higher than the 98,495 at the end of 2009′s Day 2. ...
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Want a Broken Palm Pre or Pixi? Go to Verizon Wireless!

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:16:34 +0000

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One of the worst customer experiences I ever had was through Verizon Wireless when I purchased a Palm Treo 700P back in 2008. Verizon loaded up so much absolute crap software on that OS in order to ‘control’ the phone through Verizon’s proprietary system designed to get you to pay for things most phones and gadgets provide for free, that it rendered my brand new Treo useless.

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New Round Covered Mouse Debut at CES 2010

Brett Bumeter — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:21:49 +0000

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ZDNET Asks if the Palm Pre is a Failure

Brett Bumeter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:06:33 +0000

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I’ve written about the my own Palm Pre on a different blog several times, but I wanted to provide a note about the most important two issues related to the Palm Pre, Whether to go with Sprint, & Outlook Integration.

ZDNET posited the following linkbait and I’m obliging Is the Palm Pre a failure? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

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Great Mother’s Day Gift for Under $10!

Brett Bumeter — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:29:35 +0000

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Brett Bumeter — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:56:10 +0000

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