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."

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Re:The reason why

[Rick Zeman]

Ah, but who do they call for tech. support?
Is there a 4th world "country" that they can source tech. support to?
That was totally uncalled for. And stop living in the past. There is no way India can be called Third World

There's no more Soviet Union, but 2nd world at best because India is either 1st world or 3rd world depending up where, so it averages to 2nd world.
It'll improve when India becomes part of Pakistan, probably.