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A once busy Laois pub with seven apartments above it is up for an online auction. Gogarty's Bar is on a prominant position on Main Street in Portarlington, with...
A once busy Laois pub with seven apartments above it is up for an online auction. Gogarty's Bar is on a prominant position on Main Street in Portarlington, with...
And that may have been accelerated by the pandemic, of course. but we're seeing online spending really increase here. stores like best buy are very well-aware of this trend. they have been for years. and i was just interviewing an executive who told me exclusively that what they're doing is retooling the floor space at best buy. as we went to one in minnesota where they actually reduce the floor size of their best buy store by about 60%. they use that remaining space and renovated it into a fulfillment center that is closer to people's doorsteps to get the goods out the door faster. so as you ...
Giant stores and transform a lot of them and shrink down the floor size and actually add warehousing to get you stuff faster. listen to this. how much faster can you get orders to customers now? >> i'd say ten times faster. because only focussed on picking your product, and getting it out the back door. >> now, that's damion harmon, executive vice president of best buy. he's going around the country shrinking the stores by more than half, adding a warehouse to get packages out quickly. right now we've become so accustom to fast delivery, that's how a store like this is trying to compete with...