http://tntluoma.com/apple/well-we-had-to-put-them-all-somewhere/ Stuff I've Written Down Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:43:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://tntluoma.com/apple/well-we-had-to-put-them-all-somewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-1537 Ryan Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:45:42 +0000 http://tj.tntluoma.com/mac/well-we-had-to-put-them-all-somewhere#comment-1537 <p>Thats a normal BB display sled - it just happens to have Zune ads on the ends. It's not a MS display just MS ads. Although when MS paid to have those ads on a sled in the "racetrack" they probably also paid to have their product placed on it...</p> Thats a normal BB display sled - it just happens to have Zune ads on the ends. It’s not a MS display just MS ads. Although when MS paid to have those ads on a sled in the “racetrack” they probably also paid to have their product placed on it…

]]> http://tntluoma.com/apple/well-we-had-to-put-them-all-somewhere/comment-page-1/#comment-1536 Houlihan Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:27:10 +0000 http://tj.tntluoma.com/mac/well-we-had-to-put-them-all-somewhere#comment-1536 <p>That's actually just a regular "Ginsu" rack - most electronics retailers (and I've managed a few for several different big box retailers) use them. The "Plays For Sure" branding on the side is something that can easily be changed out, and is a type of paid advertising that retailers use to help out on the bottom line. Most likely the store you were in either forgot to remove the PFS branding before stocking it for their iPods, or they just didn't care and the direction from headquarters was "fill it with mp3 accessories". One or the other. At retail, you're selling 7 or 8 iPods out of every 10 mp3 players sold. You fish where the fish are, so to speak.</p> That’s actually just a regular “Ginsu” rack - most electronics retailers (and I’ve managed a few for several different big box retailers) use them. The “Plays For Sure” branding on the side is something that can easily be changed out, and is a type of paid advertising that retailers use to help out on the bottom line. Most likely the store you were in either forgot to remove the PFS branding before stocking it for their iPods, or they just didn’t care and the direction from headquarters was “fill it with mp3 accessories”. One or the other. At retail, you’re selling 7 or 8 iPods out of every 10 mp3 players sold. You fish where the fish are, so to speak.

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