Minnov8 Gang Podcast

The announcement by Best Buy on cutting $800M by FY 2015, closing 50 stores and corporate layoffs of 400 people sparked a lot of conversation on this show about retail and its disruption. Online commerce, mobile devices, easy price-checking, big-box competitors cherry-picking hot product categories to sell and more is causing Best Buy no end of headaches.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: “Universal Domain” by Dreamline from the podsafe Music Alley

Discussed during the show:

• Overnight Website Challenge: huge lineup of news here
• The Nerdery releases JSON Accelerator
• Best Buy reorg stories: Forbes here and here; Marketwatch; CNET; CNBC; and Inside Best Buy, an anonymous store manager’s take on the Best Buy announcement
• Is Google stoking up the tablet wars? and Why Google’s Tablet Store Isn’t the Nexus One All Over Again
• JAMF Software’s “Everything Apple…managed“

Upcoming Events:

• April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
• April 10th: enStratus Cloud Meetup – 5:00-8:00 PM, The Local, Minneapolis
• April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
• April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
• April 25: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
• May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
• June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
• Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Minnov8 Gang 163 – Is Retail Dead? is a post from: Minnov8 and published under a Creative Commons license.