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Best Buy's big box experiment in Europe is over: the US retailer is set to close its megastores and retreat into Carphone Warehouse (CPW) shops. In a joint venture with CPW launched last year, Best Buy opened 11 giant outlets in the UK, employing some 1,100 staff, all of which will be shuttered. The battered retail sector …

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  1. Giles Jones Gold badge

    Blah

    Didn't even know they existed until the TouchPad fiasco. So much for marketing and advertising.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Next step up Amazon...

    It would be like a product exhibition holding no stock where you pay a few quid entry to inspect the products before you buy then buy via amazon and have the entry fee taken off the product price. And haveit shipped to your home.

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  3. Eponymous Bastard

    Fry's

    Now if only Fry's would open in the UK. That would be an event and would give all you betrothed somewhere to go and while away the hours on a Saturday morning. Stumbled across the one on the outskirts of Las Vegas a few years back and spent many a happy hour there; and it had a café in the middle of it!

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  4. Alan Brown Silver badge
    FAIL

    Bestbuy (USA) ok....

    But partnering with Carphone Whorehouse very very bad.

    Oh dear, how sad, too bad. Even if I'd known they were around the association with said company would be enough to put me off dealing with them.

    Someone in BB USA HQ needs to do their homework.

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