Best Buy

George PolancoKyle Cockerham

About Best Buy• Multinational Retailer with

brick and mortar and online presence.

• 1100 stores with over 180,000 employees World Wide.

• Best Buy still holds 22% market share in the US.

What Best Buy Sells• Consumer Electronics

• Home Office

• Entertainment Software

• Appliances

Services: Geek Squad

• Computer maintenance and configuration.• Home Theater installation.• Car audio and Video Installation.

Target Market

• Men and Woman of the middle class ages 16-35.

• Parents with students in college ages 36-50.

Value Proposition

Best Buy provides an assortment of high quality and reasonably priced electronics and accessories for consumer with expendable incomes and a desire for the newest innovations in the technology industry. Best Buy is also committed to delivering technology solutions that enable easy access to people, ideas, knowledge and entertainment. To do so Best Buy is committed to developing and implementing technology solutions to their consumers and communities

The Current Strategy

• To become more profitable ,Best Buy is closing 50 “Big Box” stores and opening 100 Mobile Stores.

• Omni-Channel Retailer

Strategy Continued

• Provide many outlets for consumers to stay connected to the Best Buy Brand.

Examples: Twelpforce, Community Forums, rating and reviews, geekblog, Best Buy You Tube Channel, and IDEAX.

• Consumers can also connect via Facebook and Twitter.

• Maintain an interactive Facebook page.

SWOT Analysis Strengths: Weakness:

• Wide product selection in consumer electronics

• Well-developed digital and social• Dual Branding and Acquisition Strategies• Offers Services like Geek Squad to assist

costumers

• Customer service isn’t viewed highly• Online product assortment doesn’t match

up to In-store

Opportunities: Threats:

• Further investment internationally• New forms of social media ex. Instagram,

Aurasma, Pinterest • Tablet-commerce

• Amazon’s lower prices online• Larger stores department stores with such

as Walmart • Internet downloading and streaming effects

DVD and CD sales

Issues with Best Buy• Felt they were unstoppable after

Circuit City's demise. • Amazon Quickly taking market share.• Lots of overhead cost.• Best Buy is a showroom for many

online retailers.• Facebook and Review sites plagued

with complaints about customer service.

The New Strategy• Connect to consumers on a local basis.• Hire employees for handling Social Media

in store.• Use Pinterest and Instagram tp further

social media presence. • Make an Ipad and Tablet specific app.

The New Strategy in Store• Give employees Ipads that can

access inventory, prices, product information , and POS use.

• Implement Aurusma for the customer that wants to shop on their own. Products can be purchased with the app.

Cost For Implementation

• Social Media employee: 100 pilot stores 1 employee per store

$30,000x100=$3,000,000• Instagram & Pinterest would be ran

by Best Buys Social Media Team at the corporate offices.

• In store Ipad use:100 pilot stores with 10 Ipads each

$399.99x10x100=$399,990• Ipad and Tablet App

$12,000-$150,000

New Strategy SWOT Analysis

Strengths: Weakness:

• Wide product selection in consumer electronics

• Making a big company feel small

• Well-developed digital and social

• Social Marketing to Women

• High customer service ratings

• Strong relationship building

• It takes lots of time and money to implement strategies.

• Still have more overhead then online retailers.

• Opens more outlets for consumers to complain.

• Social media is constantly changing

Opportunities: Threats:

• Further integration of new social media

• Make stores smaller, lessen overhead. More Best Buy Mobile stores.

• Be more aggressive with pricing

• Amazon’s lower prices online

• Consumers could use all the info provided to still shop elsewhere.

• Larger department stores such as Walmart

• Price driven consumers

SWOT Analysis

Instagram and In Store Tablets

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