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Best Buy is preparing a pilot program to offer electronics through a unit of Rent-A-Center, employees of the rent-to-own company and analysts say. Rent-A-Center, which provides consumers the option of owning merchandise through rental arrangements, plans to set up kiosks in Best Buy stores to provide products to customers who don't meet Best Buy's credit standards or don't want to take on additional debt.

Best Buy has announced the expansion of its self-service kiosks, with nearly 100 locations to be added in the next year. Best Buy Express has opened in 150 locations over the past three years and will be adding two locations at the Downtown Disney District in Anaheim, Calif., multiple locations at college campuses and also at events and ferry hubs.

Best Buy announced it is expanding its Best Buy Express kiosks to new channels and is adding nearly 100 locations in the next year, including two locations at Downtown Disney District in Anaheim and multiple locations at college campuses, events and ferry hubs. The expansion adds to the 150 Best Buy Express locations opened in the past three years. "The arrival of our self-serve kiosks at Disney is a testament to the continued growth of Best Buy Express," says Julie St. Marie, business leader of Best Buy Express. "As part of Best Buy's multichannel strategy, Best Buy Express is

Think back to the last time you were in the market for a new printer, camera or sofa. If you used a search engine like Google or Bing, chances are you were served up a mess of things from videos to news results to images. That mess probably included ads that were pretty far off the mark.

Lacking major shopping holidays and chock-full of vacations and down time, retail's second quarter can be a sluggish sales period for even the most successful retailers. Nevertheless, retailers offering both everyday staple items (supermarkets, drugstores and auto parts) were able to achieve impressive same-store sales increases, taking several spots among the top-performing Q2 retailers. The Bottom 5 list indicates trouble for retailers offering consumer electronics, at least during this non-holiday period. Best Buy and RadioShack both made the list, as did Office Depot, which offers computers and consumer electronics along with office supplies. Following are the Top and Bottom

Cross-channel retailers must focus on acquiring more social visitors this holiday season, as their value to brands is undeniable. According to the IBM Coremetrics Fourth Annual Online Retail Holiday Readiness Report, social media users are more than twice as likely than the overall population to convert into customers.

New York City -- Best Buy has launched the first campaign under the new partnership between mobile shopping application ShopSavvy and vertical ad network Longboard Media. The campaign features targeted and location-based feature offers, local store inventory and branding content delivered when ShopSavvy users scan relevant products with their smartphones at Best Buy locations. ShopSavvy and Longboard Media joined forces to offer highly targeted ad campaigns to major retailers through ShopSavvy's AdOns platform. AdOns enable advertisers to deliver hyper-relevant, UPC/GPS-targeted messages to mobile customers at the point of highest intent as they stand in a retail store with a

  The first issue of the publication, entitled ‘Lovetech’ , will be distributed as an insert in the London edition of The Daily Telegraph. Advertising space has been sold to Best Buy suppliers and brand partners. Future editions of Lovetech , whose target audience is to be 20-40 year olds, will be distributed in 10 of the brand’s UK stores. In addition to the glossy print edition, an e-catalogue will be available on the Best Buy UK website. The magazine will be produced in partnership with August Media and will

Best Buy launched the first campaign under the new partnership between mobile shopping application ShopSavvy and vertical ad network Longboard Media. The campaign is currently running with targeted and location-based feature offers, local store inventory, and branding content delivered when ShopSavvy users scan relevant products with their smartphones at Best Buy locations.

The tablet era has arrived at big-box retailers, which are now setting aside large swaths of floor space previously devoted to traditional PCs. Best Buy is probably the highest profile example of this trend — it's overhauled or is in the process of overhauling display areas. Tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom, and Hewlett-Packard TouchPad now get prominent placement at stores, rendering the iPad just one among equals.