Dixons has been having a rough time lately.
03 July 2008

Last week I wrote about the excellence of the Best Buy stores in Memphis, Tennessee.

I made a quick visit to Memphis last week and I couldn’t resist visiting my favourite independent, which trades under the name of The Video Station.
18 June 2008

Last week, I wrote about Best Buy’s £20 billion turnover and 150,000 employees.
12 June 2008

The fact that Best Buy, the largest electronics retailer in the World, has decided to buy Carphone Warehouse has been a big news story in all the media.
05 June 2008

Sometimes I wish I had the buying power of an outfit like Asda. The supermarket is currently offering a special deal on a neat looking DAB radio for just £15.
29 May 2008

Last week, following the news that Philips had stopped manufacturing TV sets for the American market, I forecast that perhaps the long awaited shakeout of the manufacturers was about to take place.
08 May 2008

I almost choked on my cornflakes when I opened the Scottish Daily Record and read that the manager of an electrical store had been awarded £41,641 after being demoted and transferred for changing his day off and arriving at work late.
01 May 2008

A headline in my local paper said “Man wins payout after credit blacklist blunder – PC World customer was left unable to get a mortgage or credit cards”.
24 April 2008

I have just got back from being in Northern Ireland for a Retra meeting.
17 April 2008

The present turmoil in the banking world seems to be trickling down to independent electrical dealers.
10 April 2008

Two years ago, I happened to be visiting Kiev in the Ukraine, when the news broke that Dixons had an option to buy the Russian Eldorado chain of electrical shops.
03 April 2008

They say there is no such thing as a free lunch, but there is in Scotland, if you belong to Retra.
26 March 2008

The format war is over. Blu-ray is the winner just as I predicted at the outset of hostilities. Luckily, I took my own advice and never sold a single HD-DVD unit.
17 March 2008

The upcoming April Retra conference in Portugal has been fortunate in securing John Clare as the keynote speaker.
17 March 2008

Usually governments do little to improve the lot of small businesses, but many dealers are pleased with the latest changes to business rates in Scotland.
17 March 2008