Hobby spending for the youngest vs. oldest groups. Nice to see Apple getting its due (he types from his borrowed iBook G4 running Tiger).
The kids are buying online, and the old folks are still patronizing brick and mortars.
Interestingly, the activities are probably otherwise similar... NewEgg and the HP home store are places for geeks to spend hours browsing, and so is Fry's, an electronics megastore which, as far as I know, only exists on the west coast. My main association with Fry's is that it's the kind of place you go if you're going to build your own computer from scratch, and you need parts. So I'm a bit surprised to see it's more popular with the old folks. Or that may be because the prices are good.
Somehow, Best Buy is getting the senior citizens to engage with their online store. I'm guessing that they've been doing in-store promotions for online deals, but I don't know that first hand. Other theories?
The kids are buying online, and the old folks are still patronizing brick and mortars.
Interestingly, the activities are probably otherwise similar... NewEgg and the HP home store are places for geeks to spend hours browsing, and so is Fry's, an electronics megastore which, as far as I know, only exists on the west coast. My main association with Fry's is that it's the kind of place you go if you're going to build your own computer from scratch, and you need parts. So I'm a bit surprised to see it's more popular with the old folks. Or that may be because the prices are good.
Somehow, Best Buy is getting the senior citizens to engage with their online store. I'm guessing that they've been doing in-store promotions for online deals, but I don't know that first hand. Other theories?
