Why no Bestbuy flyer?

Poor choice by BB.

Saving pennies, yet no improvements on its image especially online ... Best Buy for what???
ie eliminating weekly paper flyer is good for cost saving but online is so bad, virtually have to search and search for the 'promo' if any.

Eventually, I hardly shop at BB, both in-store and online. Waste of time and efforts most times even poor customer services.

I can say that BB is heading to the stage of closure (bankruptcy) due to poor sales both regular and holiday.

Yeah it's actually pretty insane that Best Buy's flyer "solution" was to get rid of flyers *entirely* - not just printed ones. Basically if it wasn't for StockTrack it'd be impossible to casually find any deals on the website at this point.

I don't expect physical flyers but at least an online flyer for weekly deals at least Boxing day deals. How am I supposed to sort through the mess of the site unless I am looking for something specific! Really poor business decision.

Gibsons wrote: ↑ Flyers have been gone at BB for a while now. Probably saves them money and everything is searchable on their website.

Their Cell plan deals aren't that great... I expected more.

I understand that but during Black Friday and Boxing Day it would help get more sales.

I was just on bestbuy website looking for the flyer, thought I was blind or browser was messed up. Saw this post

Gibsons wrote: ↑ Flyers have been gone at BB for a while now. Probably saves them money and everything is searchable on their website.

Their Cell plan deals aren't that great... I expected more.

Everything may be searchable but the way they have things set up now absolutely does not lend itself to people making impulse purchases.

Gibsons wrote: ↑ I don't think Best Buy is the place for impulse purchases anyway... it's not the little candy aisle right by the checkout at the grocery store. The amount of physical flyers I see nowadays has shrunk to basically Canadian Tire and grocery chains. Seems like a bold move to get rid of the online flyer for BB, but I understand it.

It absolutely is, are you kidding me? Every retail store wants to increase their attach rate and average $ per transaction value. Just because it's online and it's not $1.50 chocolate bars or $1 packs of gum at the checkout doesn't mean they aren't trying to do it.

But absolutely no one is going to sift through thousands of "on sale" items to do it.

I guess their rationale is if amazon doesn't need flyers, why do we need?

Wallet saved. No flyers means I buy specific items only. If I see a flyer I might buy stupid crap I wouldn't usually pay attention to.

They sent an email this morning.

66xx66 wrote: ↑ Wallet saved. No flyers means I buy specific items only. If I see a flyer I might buy stupid crap I wouldn't usually pay attention to.

This is largely the point I'm getting at. The fact that even a company like Walmart still understands this (and they haven't reduced their flyers down to simply being grocery flyers) says a lot.

Best Buy's decision just comes across as solely trying to cut down labour costs.

Best Buy BF / BD / BW "Sale Prices" have been anemic at best. Suppliers drive MAPs (Minimum Advertising Pricing) and Samsung, Apple, etc decide discount levels (which were poor). Perhaps an intent to end the year with slightly better margins. Inflation (more specifically shipping costs) likely didn't allow for lower margins and the general mediocre "Sale Prices" have magnified this.

Anecdotally, from my physical/web browsing, several retailers didn't sell out of stock. Few "must have" items were sold out.

"Deal Hunters" know how poor most seasonal deal offers were and simply pumping out a "Boxing Day / Week" flyer with anemic offers looks anti-climactic. Almost none of the product categories demonstrated any spotlight and when price errors or clearance items come up, the "RFD effect" takes care of promotion.

When I review most "flyer efforts" this (past) year, they simply magnify how poor pricing offers were. Save for LD website with an extra 50% at checkout with decent merchandise in Nov (BF), I didn't see retailers trying to aggressively corral year-end sales.

Typically, I look for Electronics in Jan>Mar as this is when non-moving inventory items get (serious) mark downs. January CES (Consumer Electronics Show) introduces "new" models for shipment beginning April, so most left over Dec Retailer stock has to be sold from Jan-Mar.

It's the same way Amazon doesn't need a flyer. Best Buy wants to drive traffic. They want customers to browse, sort prices from low to high, check other categories, instead of looking at the flyer only and going to another retailer.

Best Buy isn't trying to target the gramps that are shopping at Walmart.

Flyers also lock in prices. We saw that this BF. Amazon matching conventional retailers like No Frills on AirPods. Then Bell doing $99 to beat everyone else.

Use logic, guys. A static flyer costs nothing to create. A couple of interns studying in art school can create it. If Best Buy wanted to cut costs, it's not where they would do it.