Talk:Service Merchandise

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Contents 1 Best Buy 2 Fair use rationale for Image:Service merch logo.gif 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Service logo.jpg 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Service Merchandise.gif 5 Bill Cosby 6 Locations 7 Demise of Service Merchandise 8 Internet Company? 9 Fair use rationale for Image:Service merch logo.gif

[edit] Best Buy

Was Best Buy truly the only electronics company to place pressure on Service Merchandise? This smells a little funny.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Service merch logo.gif

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Service logo.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Service Merchandise.gif

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[edit] Bill Cosby

I remember that Bill Cosby was used in some of their advertising. Does anyone know anything about this? -- Suso 04:27, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Locations

Were there really only the four New York locations listed in the article? I'm pretty sure I remember one in Valley Stream on Long Island. Phaded 00:52, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Demise of Service Merchandise

Having been an employee of Service Merchandise from 1987-1995, the demise of Service Merchandise was severalfold, and in my opinion, not due to pressure by other retailers such as Best Buy or Wal Mart.

In approximately 1993, there was shift in management from Raymond Zimmerman to another (I forget his name) who was responsible for transforming the retailer from a catalog based showroom to a "boutique retail store" (their words, not mine). Although good in intention, it alienated the vast majority of loyal SMC customers, who liked the catalog.

As noted in the article, SMC did not embrace the internet at all. In late 1994, the company started producing catalog CD-ROMs, but that is as far as the technology went. In retrospect, what better company was there to take advantage of the internet than SMC? They already had the catalog structure & distribution channels in place.

The lack of understanding of their customers and their failure to embrace the internet commerce movement was the reason for the decline of the company.—Preceding unsigned comment added by JessterCPA (talk • contribs)

[edit] Internet Company?

I'm confused, i went to www.servicemerchandise.com expecting to see this internet company called service merchandise like the article says, but instead i get 99centstuff.com?!?!Grk1011 (talk) 04:40, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Service merch logo.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 08:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)