Saturday, September 24, 2011

Best Buy Birth an Accident

It's always great to hear great things coming from challenging times or even disastrous times.

Did you know that the modern day electronics superstore was born out of adversity? A tornado had leveled one of Dick Shulze's small retail stores. To sell off the remaining merchandise, he held an aptly named "Tornado Sale" with an unusually large selection of goods from all his stores but at one location with low pricing and heavy advertising. It was a huge success. He then opened at the time an unprededented 18,000 stores in 1983 and started the name Best Buy.....you know and see the rest of the story I'm sure.

When dealt a blow - because we all will - how do you react? Everything for a reason, find it...by accident.

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