This week for Thursday, we were assigned readings on retailers, one of them being this article on The Wall Street Journal. According to the article, Home Depot, Sears, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart – famous “Big Boxes” are all going for smaller stores. From my perspective, when the Box is too big, people get distracted or […]

Source: http://thedailyzombies.blogspot.com/2011/01/massive-manic-hysteria-induced-by.html I took a look at two other classmate’s blog posts: Benson’s followup post on his Superbowl Bieber Ad and Ansley’s post on a McDonald’s commercial featuring Spongebob toys. The Best Buy one definitely did not live up to expectations. Like Benson mentioned, it was a “failed attempt at trying to be funny.” They […]

Source: http://www.starandstyle.com/justin-bieber-and-ozzy-osbourne-starring-in-best-buy-super-bowl-commercial.html On the 27th, my friend Benson wrote on his marketing blog about Super Bowl ads. His post was titled, “Superbowl ads: are they worth it?” Altogether, with Bieber and Osbourne, the commercial is sure to cost a lot. Will that be offset by benefits? Since Best Buy is going with it, it appears […]