Just In Case You Had Any Doubts, Dell Has No Plans To Buy Radio Shack
from the baby-steps dept
A couple of weeks ago, a writer at BusinessWeek suggested that Dell should consider buying out Radio Shack as a way to quickly rectify its lack of retail presence. There's no doubt that Dell's once-vaunted direct sales model has come to be viewed as a handicap, but this suggestion seemed overly drastic. In an interview, Michael Dell spoke about the company's plans to overcome the limitations (via News.com) of its existing business model by expanding its use of channel partners and finding its way onto more retail shelves. There's nothing particularly radical here (except the fact that he's actually doing an interview with a magazine devoted to channel news), but radical isn't necessarily what the company needs. HP has seen a major turnaround in its fortunes without doing anything desperate. The PC industry isn't the most exciting space to be in right now, but there's no reason that a company with Dell's presence and prowess can't continue to profit in it.
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Buy Gateway instead
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Should have bought CompUSA before
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It's hard to imagine Dell knows how to profit in any other business. This is a fairly large company, and I doubt they are very nimble with respect to whatever "space" they try to do business in.
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One solution...
Said stores can carry a select number of computers, ready to be customized on the spot to the customers specification.
The problem that Gateway had was with all the glitz that the stores offered, there was no way to walk in and buy a computer, you still had to order it, and wait for it to be delivered. Nobody really wants to do that.
Of course, it won't be as easy as I make it out to be...
EtG
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That would be like buying a coffin
That guy at Business Week needs to get his head out of his posterior, and breath some fresh air for a while.
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