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Gateway To Close All Retail Stores
John Lazzaro writes "Looks like Gateway is throwing in the towel and closing all of its remaining retail stores, according to a Reuters/Yahoo! report." The story notes: "Gateway's stores, which will be closed on April 9, have long been criticized by analysts and investors as an expensive drag on cash flow because of lease costs and the difficulty of managing inventories", and goes on to suggest: "...with [the acquisition of] eMachines, Gateway doesn't necessarily need the added distribution channel the stores gave the company. In addition to selling Gateway's wares over the phone and via the Internet, eMachines PCs are sold at major retailers such as Best Buy."
Who needs April Fools when you've got capitalism?
Tee hee!
First funny story all day, because it's true!
They need the resources to open stores in India. All the people they're paying to do tech support need somewhere to buy computers.
April Fools! Ha ha ha! ...eliminate about 2,500 retail jobs...
Oh.
Back to the barn. Moo
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If their decision to fire me last month had anything to do with this...
no, just the droppings.
This post modded interesting because...you didn't know something?
Don't worry. Remember that /. article about drafting computer folks? That's "Plan B".
Gateway made a big push into the small business market, but much isn't heard about that anymore. If you don't have that big cash cow of business desktops and mid-range servers
There's a joke in here somewhere...
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how bout
find some cheap shit at a cheap price.
-Grump
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hope i can score some cheap shit!
Yeah. Cheap shit.
At what point do Gateway become Beleagured?
They've been described as being Troubled for a while and I was wondering if there's a scale of adjectives that journalists use to describe how deep in shit a company is.
If I remember rightly Apple went straight to Beleagured status almost overnight, and stayed that way for around five years!
This must come as shocking and horrible news to all Slashdot readers. This totally ruins my plans (And yours too probably) of going to the Gateway store and buying a wonderful computer.
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Especially for the over 45 crowd, adoption of internet-based sales can be a little discomforting
Hey there, sonny.
I was typing a clever response to this when Clippy popped-up and said: "The fingers you are typing with are too old. Please rap the keyboard with the handle of your cane and I'll try to provide you with helpful information."
Suddenly uncertain, frightened and nervous, I do so. What do I get? A bunch of weblinks for Depends, hearing aids, Viagra, and some kind of loud, annoying automotive accessory that warns me if I've left my turn signal on.
Then you search for Dell and you get images back things like this. For some reason, I really want a Dell now.
I'm sure it would be better if they were guaranteed jobs for life regardless of how much they were needed. They had that system in, where was it? Oh yeah, the USSR.
hell, i've heard that in some parts of western europe they'll still guarantee you a paycheck, regardless of whether or not you actually have a job. not that western europe is comparable to the USSR, but they don't seem to care if people ever stop being on welfare.
there are actually a lot of people here who think that the US government really should guarantee them a job at all costs, and both parties are more than happy to oblige. even W. signed a $200 billion agriculture subsidies (gotta keep those ethanol producers in business!) and instituted a massive steel tariff to keep an obsolete industry happy, thereby giving the finger to the rest of the world. (as usual.)
on the other hand, I view my tax dollars being spent on these people as insurance against them stealing my laptop and musical instruments, something that the ayn rand fanboys here can't quite comprehend.