Entries tagged “retail”

Jan 18, 2011

Starbucks is adding ‘Trenta’ size cups to it’s drink lineup.  The 31-ounce cup will be used only for iced coffee and iced tea drinks and will cost $0.50 more than a similar Venti sized drink.

The National Post has a graphic showing how large the new cup really is (hint: it’s bigger than an average stomach).

Nov 29, 2010

Which national chain is the biggest in NYC?  Dunkin’ Donuts with 448 stores, but only 105 in Manhattan.  Starbucks, in contrast, has 227 total stores, with 182 of them in Manhattan.  These numbers, and others, show that mom & pop stores are disappearing while national chains are taking their place.

My favorite example of Starbucks’ ridiculousness is at 57th and Lexington.  There’s a Starbucks on the north side of the street, and another one about 1/2 block away on the south side of the street.  Yeah, crossing 57th Street is soooooo difficult.

Jul 10, 2009

Sears starts Christmas sales in July.

July?  I was a month off.

Kmart Won’t Let You Order a Wii, Even Though They’re In Stock

March 6, 2007 at 8:30am • Zero comments
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I’d like to get a Wii, but I’m not willing to buy a whole bundle for $500+ and get four games, three of which I’m not interested in. I’m also not interested in waiting on line at the Nintendo store before 7:00 a.m. hoping to get one of the 12 or so that they might sell that day. I can wait for the day that I can walk into any Best Buy or Circuit City and just buy the base $250 unit and the one additional game I might be interested in.

In an effort to find a Wii, I’ve added a Wii tracker to my RSS reader in case someone has the base unit for sale online. This morning, I found out that Kmart has just that. Over my morning cup of coffee, I went to the Kmart site, and attempted to order the Wii.

When I added it to my cart, I was greeted by a message that, especially with my slow-morning-brain, I found quite perplexing.

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So how exactly does one go about and order one from Kmart?  They have them in stock, but have a limit of 0 per order.

Oh well. Guess it’s not meant to be at this time.

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