Wednesday’s opening of a Samsung store in Burnaby’s Metropolis at Metrotown marks a North American first for the South Korean tech giant that is locked in a battle with Apple for supremacy in the growing mobile market. full story ![]()

North American retailers may join together on their own Bangladesh safety agreement, an alternative to a legally-binding accord that mainly European retailers have signed onto, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. The National Retail Federation, one of the largest U.S. retail trade associations, is set to speak on Tuesday afternoon with other trade...
huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)
With the wild success of the Apple Store, which tech giant will be next to open its own brick-and-mortar retail shop?
pcmag.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Samsung announced this week it'll be launching more than 1,000 small retail shops inside Best Buy stores across the U.S. starting this month.
latimes.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
Samsung Electronics and Best Buy announced today that they will open Samsung Experience Shops in 1400 Best Buy retail outlets in the USA, beginning May 1st. Unlike many deals in high tech, this one had little hype before it was announced, no leaks or rumors, other than a handful of small store experiments to try the concept out.
forbes.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
Huppin’s Hi-Fi, Photo and Video, one of downtown Spokane’s oldest retail businesses, will close its store at 401 W. Main, consolidating its retail operations at its north Spokane store. The family-owned business has had a downtown store for 104 years.
spokesman.com (2 months and 5 days ago)

The next time you walk into a Best Buy store, there's a good chance you'll see Samsung's answer to Apple's retail stores.
latimes.com (11 days ago)

Samsung today rolled up the shutters on its second "experience store" in Australia, just 24 hours before the New York reveal of the hotly anticipated Galaxy S4 smartphone. The new store opened in the Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne.Similar to the original Samsung store in Sydney, the Highpoint location offers Samsung fans and the curious a place where they can try a...
techradar.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
Almost two years since American Furniture Warehouse bought land along busy Powers Boulevard for a second Colorado Springs store, the site remains vacant — even as the retail giant is planning a pair of locations in the Phoenix area. American...
gazette.com (1 month and 27 days ago)
Samsung is making an aggressive sales push in the U.S. market by expanding into thousands of third-party retail outlets where dedicated staff will sell and provide advice on the company's smartphones, tablets and entertainment products.Samsung has established "pop-up" stores in the past and had a full-scale outlet in New York that was ultimately shut down. A part of the new...
pcworld.com (23 days ago)
Best Buy said the Samsung Experience Shop will open in its Lincoln store by the end of this week and in its Grand Island store in mid-May. These are in the first wave of stores to open Samsung…
journalstar.com (25 days ago)
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